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Yes. Talk to any police or first responder, they have training to cover this. For this and some other reasons is why police often approach stopped vehicles from
by Maxburn 5y ago
Yes. Talk to any police or first responder, they have training to cover this. For this and some other reasons is why police often approach stopped vehicles from the passenger side, further off the road and shielded from oncoming traffic by the vehicles.
- smt88 5y ago> Talk to any police or first responder, they have training to cover this. That has no bearing on how common these types of collisions are. The original issue is whether Teslas are more likely to crash into a parked emergency vehicle than a human. The training has a better explanation: while "number of collisions per mile driven" is vanishingly small, "percentage of law-enforcement deaths as a result of collisions" is very high. Out of the ~1,200 LEOs killed between 2000 and 2008, about half were due to collisions[1]. That alone tells you how such collisions can be rare, but still a top-of-mind issue for law enforcement. 1. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0018720818786132 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00187208187861...