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With Waze directing streams of phone-watching drivers onto roads they are unfamiliar with and which are unsuited for the traffic, I can also predict there will
by mannykannot 7y ago
With Waze directing streams of phone-watching drivers onto roads they are unfamiliar with and which are unsuited for the traffic, I can also predict there will be crashes.
- mjlee 7y agoIt's at least possible that putting drivers on to roads they're less familiar with could decrease the amounts of fatal accidents. For example - http://roadsafetygb.org.uk/news/end-of-the-road-for-white-lines-4868/ http://roadsafetygb.org.uk/news/end-of-the-road-for-white-li...
- mannykannot 7y agoEven if that is valid in its limited domain - and I doubt that it is, given that no consideration seems to have been given to the dangers of increasing variance in driver behavior - there's no reason to believe it applies where roads gain a lot more traffic than they are suited for (and especially when most of the increase are technically lost, in that they, personally, do not know where they are or what they will encounter next.)