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The cause of the accident was a careless driver (or algorithm) not checking before crossing a lane. I can do it, why can't they?

• kerkeslager 9y ago
  From a the perspective of policies such as designing an intersection, placing blame (even if that blame is justified) is utterly pointless. Systems should be designed for the users you have, not for the users you want, especially since in this case it's literally a matter of life and death. Sure, drivers should check before crossing a lane, but some percentage don't, so it makes sense to minimize lane crosses.
• lmm 9y ago
  Do you have a statistically large enough sample to conclude that they're worse at driving that you are? Most cases of driver inattention don't escalate to a collision, so trying to infer inattention rates from collision rates is pretty noisy. And even assuming this was simply a case of a bad driver, what policy approach would you suggest to protect the general public against such drivers? Accepting that drivers are fallible and designing our road systems to be robust against that seems a more effective approach than berating those drivers who are particularly unlucky in the consequences of their failures of attentiveness.
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