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>so I’m not sure how types of vehicles is relevant for the comparison. Surely "car with ABS and good tires" vs "car without ABS and with bald tires" makes a di
by thfuran 3y ago
>so I’m not sure how types of vehicles is relevant for the comparison.
Surely "car with ABS and good tires" vs "car without ABS and with bald tires" makes a difference. And presumably waymo operates exclusively the former while some people drive the latter.
- tialaramex 3y agoSure, but that's driver discretion, so it's a factor that we should be considering.
- thfuran 3y agoThat depends on exactly what you're trying to measure.
- bluGill 3y agoAbs has been mandatory in the us since 2012, and was very common long before that (my base model truck from 1999 has it) we can consider cars without abs statistical noise by now.
- thfuran 3y ago>Abs has been mandatory in the us since 2012 The average US vehicle's age is more than 12 years. >and was very common long before that (my base model truck from 1999 has it) My non-base-model car from 1995 didn't. >we can consider cars without abs statistical noise by now. I'm not so sure that's true. But even if it is, that doesn't mean that there are no meaningful differences in safety between an exclusively new (or at least very recent) and maintained vehicle fleet and the general population.