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I like the assumption implicit in this study: time spent driving is equivalent to the time spent dead.
by eggoa 16y ago
I like the assumption implicit in this study: time spent driving is equivalent to the time spent dead.
- zeteo 16y agoThe assumption is actually that you'd prefer to spend extra time driving than to correspondingly lower your life expectancy.
- lukifer 16y agoNot necessarily; I often listen to audiobooks and the like while driving, or sometimes I value it as time to think. I've even consumed several dozen college lectures via MIT and UC Berkeley podcasts.
- gregwebs 16y agoI find when an audio-book is truly engaging that I don't realize I just drove 20 miles which probably means I wasn't paying as much attention to the road as I should have.
- dmclain 16y agoThey may have taken this into account, but the worse equivalency in my mind is that a second saved today is equivalent to a second decades from now at the end of my life expectancy. It seems like even a conservative discount rate would completely eliminate any perceived time loss. Computing the discount rate in light of the probability of the singularity or skynet is left as an exercise for the reader.