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> "If you brake more aggressively, you will be involved in more accidents" Is that statement based on evidence? While that seems plausible, it also seems coun
by isthatafact 2y ago
> "If you brake more aggressively, you will be involved in more accidents"
Is that statement based on evidence?
While that seems plausible, it also seems counter-intuitive to me. I suspect that many crashes happen because someone was afraid to apply maximum brakes, either out of fear that someone might hit them from behind, or simply due to being unfamiliar with braking hard.
- dmurray 2y agoIt's true at some points in the parameter space, not at others. If you never brake at all, starting to brake more aggressively would be great! Once you've tuned your parameters to be driving pretty safely and minimizing accidents, which is what Waymo is surely doing for some definition of "minimizing accidents", it must be true that every further parameter change involves a tradeoff like this.