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> Cars unlike aircraft don’t need to move forward to maintain safety. They do if they're crossing railroad tracks.

• david38 1y ago
  A narrow case easily accounted for
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  • ben_w 1y ago
    Enumerating all the narrow edge cases has proven surprisingly difficult.
    • triplesec 1y ago
      but train tracks is not that kind of edge case, tbh, it's so vanishingly situational
      • ben_w 1y ago
        "Train tracks" are a subset of all the edge cases in the set "car can't just stop and stay stopped and that's safe".
• Retric 1y ago
  You can get out of a car on railroad tracks. However, “safely come to a complete stop” includes turns and freeways which are more serious concerns. That’s why I said 30 seconds / 30 minutes not 3 seconds. The idea is to go to somewhere safe and pull off the road not just slam on the breaks and hope your not on a curve.
• maximilianthe1 1y ago
  In case of self-drive malfunction you still have a gas pedal under a human's foot