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Cars are the leading cause of dead children in the US and this is what annoys you?
by CalRobert 7y ago
Cars are the leading cause of dead children in the US and this is what annoys you?
- vectorEQ 7y agolol, cars arent the cause. people who can't drive are.
- CalRobert 7y agoTruth be told I personally think infrastructure and cultural norms that take automobiles as the default preferred road use are the real cause, but at the point of impact the car, operated by a driver (or machine) is the cause.
- ryanlol 7y agoHow'd you arrive at this conclusion? That's a bizarrely uncharitable interpretation of what I wrote. I assure you, I'm annoyed by many other things too. >Cars are the leading cause of dead children You know, this obviously is exactly why it annoys me to turn off the pedestrian detection. It's not like it protects me, sitting in my car.
- vectorEQ 7y agoit also protects you in the car, if not from physical damage which at speed is likely when hitting a heavy object like a human, from mental trauma of killing a person...
- CalRobert 7y agoThe idea behind what I wrote (which I realize now was unpopular) was that a somewhat overzealous safety system shouldn't be a big deal compared to the possibility of it preventing thousands of dead kids a year, if deployed at scale. Asking such a system to distinguish pretend behavior seems like a big ask.
- ryanlol 7y ago>somewhat overzealous safety system shouldn't be a big deal compared to the possibility of it preventing thousands of dead kids a year I totally agree with you on this, I was just observing an unfortunate byproduct of an otherwise great system. >Asking such a system to distinguish pretend behavior seems like a big ask. I agree, I'm certainly not demanding that anyone do anything to "solve" this issue.