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I'm willing to bet those numbers are fudged. For instance, Amazon will tout how robots improve worker conditions at warehouses, when an external study says the

• b9a2cab5 5y ago
  The article implies that delivery drivers frequently drove without seatbelts on because taking them on/off was a hassle on short distance drives. It also says seatbelts and stop signs were the most commonly flagged "incidents". Make your own conclusions from that.
  • mschuster91 5y ago
    In Germany, this is actual law - door-to-door delivery services (postal, parcel, couriers) are exempted from the seatbelt mandate (per §21a StVO, https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/stvo_2013/__21a.html https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/stvo_2013/__21a.html).
  • p49k 5y ago
    You don’t need a dystopian AI camera monitoring system to measure seatbelt usage. Plug into OBD-2 and detect the car moving faster than 20mph while the seatbelt is not connected.
  • ceejayoz 5y ago
    > Make your own conclusions from that. Well, that's a little tough. Is it "drivers hate seatbelts" or "drivers feel so much time pressure that extra few seconds eats into their tiny wage"?
  • mrguyorama 5y ago
    Having a seatbelt on or off probably wouldn't prevent an accident, so how could that reduce accidents by 40%?
• strken 5y ago
  Yup. I'd like to see the yearly fatality rates before and after, though, since they'd likely find those harder to manipulate or cherrypick.