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Both adaptive cruise controls and human drivers do this by default. If you're doing 60 MPH on a highway and something pops into the periphery of your vision tha

• LoSboccacc 8y ago
  of course I do slow down, there's a whole load of possibilities between slamming the brakes and get rear ended and driving at the posted limit trough a dangerous situation, you know? car can slow down gently. it's a 60 zone and rain or smoke impairs the visibility? slow down. it's a 45mph zone and something that's not a motor vehicle is in a lane that's supposed to only have motor vehicles on it? you slow down until you make sense of the situation. you're near a playground and a mother is walking a children on the other side of the road and you can't see if she's holding his hand? you slow down. a person walks near the kerb and it's not looking in your direction? you slow down. a bike is loaded with groceries? a car acting erratically? a person being pulled by his dog? a bus stopped unloading people? you don't drive past them at 30mph. driving safely: super simple stuff.
  • forapurpose 8y ago
    > super simple stuff If people did the super simple stuff, we'd have boundless peace, prosperity, liberty. I remember a story - stop me if you've heard this one - about a God helping out a group of desperate people, freeing them from slavery, parting seas, feeding them in the desert. They were camped at the foot of a mountain with the God right there on top - right there! And they built the golden calf anyway. And that rule seems easier than all the other 9. WTF did they even need a golden calf for? So sadly, the criteria of simplicity is irrelevant - people will find a hard way to do it.