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> People will not rush into a road full of cars going on the other way, it doesn't matter what the signs say. You might want to watch the one-way roads in big
by inetknght 5y ago
> People will not rush into a road full of cars going on the other way, it doesn't matter what the signs say.
You might want to watch the one-way roads in big cities. It happens a lot more often than you assume.
It also is (usually) self-correcting: oncoming traffic will honk, stop, or move around. The offender will (usually) realize their mistake and try to correct.
Sometimes, though, that's not enough. Searching "killed in wrong way one way" on DDG (or assumably Google) yields many (!) news stories.
- AnimalMuppet 5y agoBeen there, done that (except the "killed" part). It was in a heavy fog. I was doing well to find a street at all, and it turned out to be one way the wrong way (the only such street in town). I figured it out when I saw wall-to-wall headlights coming at me out of the fog, and made a fast move for the curb... So, yeah. People react. Which brings up the question: How well do self-driving AIs respond to a wrong-way driver? How well do self-driving AIs recover when they are the wrong-way driver, and they suddenly have enough data to realize that?
- sophacles 5y agoI'd suggest a slight correction here: You don't need the qualifier of 'big cities'. I live in a big town/small city it happens all the time here too. And when I lived in a small town that had a one way drive around the square, it happened a lot there too. It's so frequent in fact that the barflies at one local place (that has a beer garden from which you can see a one way road) turned it into a drinking game - wrong way car == take a shot.