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Almost all (in the mathematical sense) car accidents are caused by pilot error, and not the subtle kind: driving into oncoming traffic. running red lights and o
by formerly_proven 3y ago
Almost all (in the mathematical sense) car accidents are caused by pilot error, and not the subtle kind: driving into oncoming traffic. running red lights and other ways of ignoring way of right. drugs. speeding and tailgating.
You could envisage technical solutions for some classes of these errors, but they would usually require huge changes to infrastructure or only work for new cars. And full self-driving is still ways off.
- imoverclocked 3y agoIn aviation, these kinds of things are solved with training and process. There is a reason pilots need a certain number of hours and multiple/recurrent checkrides to be able to fly people around for hire. Most people think they are good drivers which makes them immune to actually getting better through training. As for process, good luck implementing it if you can’t train it.
- michael_vo 3y agoI watch and listen to a lot of Strong Towns and NotJustBikes - a lot of the infrastructure change solutions already exist in European cities. I view the overwhelming majority of driver errors as faulty system design. Instead of red lights use turnabouts like in Europe. I just came from a small town in France where they put these staggered obstacles on one side of the road which forced both directions of traffic to be merged into one lane. So they forced people to drive into incoming traffic thereby causing cars to drive slower. A really low cost solution to slowing car speeds in the busy pedestrian area and making the roads safer for pedestrians.