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These devices disincentivise hard braking when a pedestrian steps into the road in front of your car. The idea that these devices can measure safe driving tech
by cjs_ac 3y ago
These devices disincentivise hard braking when a pedestrian steps into the road in front of your car.
The idea that these devices can measure safe driving technique comes from the same school of thought as:
- More productive programmers write more lines of code per unit time;
- Democracy puts the best people in positions of power; and
- Telling the teacher is the best way to deal with bullying.
Road rules are simply the first order effectors of driving style; the exact conditions of the road are second-order effectors; the intentions and behaviour of other drivers are third-order effectors. All must be taken into account to drive safely.
- oatmeal1 3y ago> These devices disincentivise hard braking when a pedestrian steps into the road in front of your car. The monetary incentive is still wildly in favor of hard braking as opposed to hitting a pedestrian. I don't understand this criticism.
- danShumway 3y agoThat is not even remotely how people in the real world think; most people who are even consciously trying to think about long-term consequences struggle to prioritize safety measures while they're being actively discouraged against prioritizing them. Consider that if people were capable of internalizing that hitting a pedestrian was more costly than being 5 minutes late to work -- and were capable of consistently applying that cost-benefit analysis in their everyday life, we wouldn't need laws like speed limits in the first place. The human brain is not wired to think about risk in that way. It is wired to respond to regular consistent punishments for braking by braking less often. It is wired to respond to irregular novel punishments for rare events like hitting a pedestrian by ignoring that risk.