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>There's a ton of things that can go wrong in a car which can cause an accident. And pretty much none of them ever do if the driver doesn't react exceptionally
by dsfyu404ed 4y ago
>There's a ton of things that can go wrong in a car which can cause an accident.
And pretty much none of them ever do if the driver doesn't react exceptionally poorly. Even the spectacular stuff that the internet absolutely loves to hand wring about, like a wheel falling off for whatever reason, almost always results in the car coming to a controlled stop on the side of the road. The conversion rate between "failures" and "meaningful harm to anyone or anything is abysmal."
- vel0city 4y agoAgreed. The biggest component failure leading to injuries is by far the one in the driver's seat.
- kube-system 4y agoThat’s true now, because most of the critical systems have redundancy. I wouldn’t want to drive a vehicle with one brake circuit and no throttle return spring, though. It has been a very long time since that was the case, but those days are probably where the mechanical failure horror stories come from.