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Prisoners dilemma very much at play here
by AndrewKemendo 4y ago
Prisoners dilemma very much at play here
- asdff 4y agoOnly if your frame of reference is the driver in the car. However, you are not always a car driver. Sometimes you are crossing the street on foot to get to your car. Then the very thing you optimized for comes back to hurt you, literally. The reality is that we are a meta organism. The vehicle fleet itself has some optimal weight that balances survival for all individuals in the system to its most optimal level, but this paper shows that heavier vehicles are not that and in fact do more harm than good for the system overall.
- lostmsu 4y ago> but this paper shows that heavier vehicles are not that and in fact do more harm than good for the system overall How did you derive that from the paper? If anything, this paper + the data from https://www.iihs.org/ratings/driver-death-rates-by-make-and-model https://www.iihs.org/ratings/driver-death-rates-by-make-and-... actually sound like everyone should switch to SUVs, cause switching to SUV reduces the death rate by up to 6 times, and everyone else doing the same (according to the paper) only adds up to 50%, so the total is a reduction of up to 4x. I mean it is kinda obvious, that the bigger - the safer. Cause in a collision of to ginormous mechs chances to keeps a small capsule with the driver intact are basically 100%. I am impressed so many people here read the report and took it as a confirmation of their existing bias towards small cars with 0 thinking.