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This is why I drive a big truck. When egomaniacs can trick the government into allowing them to set their half baked creations loose on public roads using unkno
by jakear 5y ago
This is why I drive a big truck. When egomaniacs can trick the government into allowing them to set their half baked creations loose on public roads using unknowing and unwilling third parties as test subjects, I want to be the dominant term in any and all conservation of momentum equations that may ensue.
As an aside, I’ve driven maybe 50,000 miles in my lifetime. Of those, 47,000+ are using pre-2005 vehicles with zero “advanced safety features”. However, I can recall two times in my driving career where I felt collision was imminent, and both of them occurred in the <5% of the time I was driving with “advanced safety features”. Yes, the computer was able to step in and avoid a collision, but it strikes me as odd that the only times I’ve needed it are when it’s available. In my opinion these new cars lull me into a false sense of security where I do not give appropriate attention to road conditions. Has anyone noticed the same? I fear that as the technology gets better and better people will pay less and less attention, putting more and more lives at risk when things inevitably go wrong.
- rp1 5y agoWhat does a big truck have to do with safety features? To me, it just sounds like you’re happy to pollute the environment just so you’re sure to annihilate your counter party in an accident.
- jakear 5y agoAs I said, momentum. Are you familiar with newton's laws?
- mcot2 5y agoMany studies have shown (and basic physics suggests) that the survivabity of accidents goes way up with vehicle weight all other things being mostly equal. https://www.iihs.org/topics/vehicle-size-and-weight https://www.iihs.org/topics/vehicle-size-and-weight
- sterlind 5y agoInteresting game equilibrium. You buy a big truck because you're threatened by lightweight Teslas. I buy a semitruck to protect myself from you. A few cycles later, everyone's screaming around like Snowpiercer in APCs and military bulldozers.
- jakear 5y agoAs much as I’d like to roll down I-5 in an M1 Abrams I think the economics of pulling a shitload of metal out of the earth and moving it around really fast will present significant damping to the system you describe. As for the “lightweight Teslas”, I looked it up and in fact S and X’s are heavier than my Big Truck. Though 3’s are indeed lighter.
- beeboop 5y agoWhat's funny about this is the safety ratings for Teslas are much better than any big trucks.
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- jakear 5y agoTeslas are also heavier than many trucks (including mine) so this isn't surprising. That doesn't mean I want something even lighter.