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> I worry about the potential for reliance on this system People also worried that drivers using ABS would be less competent than drivers not using ABS. Before
by RyanMcGreal 14y ago
> I worry about the potential for reliance on this system
People also worried that drivers using ABS would be less competent than drivers not using ABS. Before that, we worried that drivers wearing seat belts would be less careful than drivers not wearing seat belts.
Risk homeostasis is a real problem (witness the number of SUVs lining the highway ditch during a snowstorm) but the sheer benefits to engineering-for-safety more than offset the risk of encouraging cavalier behaviour.
- GiraffeNecktie 14y agoRe. ABS, one study seemed to indicate that when drivers have ABS they tend to adjust their risk taking upward "Among a total of 747 accidents incurred by the company's taxis during that period, the involvement rate of the ABS vehicles was not lower, but slightly higher, although not significantly so in a statistical sense. These vehicles were somewhat under-represented in the sub-category of accidents in which the cab driver was judged to be culpable, but clearly over-represented in accidents in which the driver was not at fault. Accident severity was independent of the presence or absence of ABS." http://psyc.queensu.ca/target/chapter07.html http://psyc.queensu.ca/target/chapter07.html