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Ultimately this would be true for most anomalies. It's one of the reasons commercial air travel is as safe as it is. In a car, you hit a bump, you keep going.

Ultimately this would be true for most anomalies. It's one of the reasons commercial air travel is as safe as it is. In a car, you hit a bump, you keep going. In a plane, something unexpected happens and that plane is grounded. The utility function is just too skewed to take even a slight risk in this regard.

mikepurvis 4y ago
It's a matter of regulation and policy. I was on a regional bus recently in the rain (Ontario's GO Transit) and a small car next to us hydroplaned and bumped the side of the bus. The driver immediately - Pulled over onto the shoulder, - Passed around a pad to collect everyone's contact information, - Summoned a replacement bus, and - Called the provincial police to escort us along the shoulder to the replacement bus. In the moment, all of this felt a little over the top, and the total delay of about 20mins total was pretty frustrating given that I ended up missing a connection. But at the end of the day, it builds my trust in the safety of that system that the fitness of any particular piece of equipment is not up to the individual drivers to judge— part of paying for a ticket on the state-run transit system is expecting a higher level of safety than, say, what you might get on a Chinatown bus line (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinatown_bus_lines#Accidents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinatown_bus_lines#Accidents). And I think I was also glad that it hadn't happened to me in my personal vehicle, where I would have to be the one to assess fitness and then deal with the insurance and so-on in the aftermath.
- kortilla 4y ago
  I don’t think this is because of the potential damage to the bus but moreso that the driver was just involved in an accident.
klodolph 4y ago
Depends on the bump. If I heard some metal-on-metal or metal-on-road scraping on a car, I'd pull over and inspect. If I felt a bumper or tire bump when I was parking I would not care.

mikepurvis 4y ago

It's a matter of regulation and policy. I was on a regional bus recently in the rain (Ontario's GO Transit) and a small car next to us hydroplaned and bumped the side of the bus. The driver immediately - Pulled over onto the shoulder, - Passed around a pad to collect everyone's contact information, - Summoned a replacement bus, and - Called the provincial police to escort us along the shoulder to the replacement bus. In the moment, all of this felt a little over the top, and the total delay of about 20mins total was pretty frustrating given that I ended up missing a connection. But at the end of the day, it builds my trust in the safety of that system that the fitness of any particular piece of equipment is not up to the individual drivers to judge— part of paying for a ticket on the state-run transit system is expecting a higher level of safety than, say, what you might get on a Chinatown bus line (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinatown_bus_lines#Accidents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinatown_bus_lines#Accidents). And I think I was also glad that it hadn't happened to me in my personal vehicle, where I would have to be the one to assess fitness and then deal with the insurance and so-on in the aftermath.

kortilla 4y ago
I don’t think this is because of the potential damage to the bus but moreso that the driver was just involved in an accident.

klodolph 4y ago

Depends on the bump. If I heard some metal-on-metal or metal-on-road scraping on a car, I'd pull over and inspect. If I felt a bumper or tire bump when I was parking I would not care.