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Lol that is going to lead to the mother of all pile-ups not if but when something just so slightly goes wrong. Imagine somebody dropping shit from an overpass
by peteradio 7y ago
Lol that is going to lead to the mother of all pile-ups not if but when something just so slightly goes wrong. Imagine somebody dropping shit from an overpass or really anything. Better build a giant cage over all the highways!
- seanmcdirmid 7y agoThose kind of pile ups already happen now when people drop crap from overpasses, how would it be any different?
- fourthark 7y agoBigger. Faster.
- macinjosh 7y agobecause unless the driver is a raging asshole usually the person behind while you are going 80 has more stopping distance than 5 fucking feet.
- mrep 7y agoThat's because you're thinking of human drivers whom are so slow to react that it is recommended they keep a whopping 2 or 3 seconds [0] worth of trailing distance to respond to changing road conditions like the person in front of you slamming on their breaks. The hypothetical clustering of self driving cars requires them to react at much faster times so they don't need to keep as much space between them. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-second_rule https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-second_rule