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Doesn't latency make this dangerous? At a BAC of 0.08 (legal limit in US) drivers have reaction time delayed by only 60-120ms but crash risk is 10x compared to
by nylonstrung 2y ago
Doesn't latency make this dangerous?
At a BAC of 0.08 (legal limit in US) drivers have reaction time delayed by only 60-120ms but crash risk is 10x compared to sober
Lack of depth perception probably compounds this?
- thaumasiotes 2y ago> At a BAC of 0.08 (legal limit in US) drivers have reaction time delayed by only 60-120ms but crash risk is 10x compared to sober I'm not sure that slower reaction times are the only effect of alcohol consumption.
- ty6853 2y agoSure, the other effects is that they're much more likely to be driving at night, overextended their waking hours, distracted by friends / a date / a prostitute, and driving a route that they do not normally drive. How could you not be 10x more likely to crash than the nurse getting off at 2am who has driven the route a thousand times and knows all the bad blind spots / bad intersections / is still well within her normal waking hours. That is much closer to the normal profile of the sober people who are out driving during prime drinking hours.
- mminer237 2y agoEven 100ms slower reaction times doesn't put most people outside the normal range: https://www.frontiersin.org/files/Articles/133421/fnhum-09-00193-HTML/image_m/fnhum-09-00193-g002.jpg https://www.frontiersin.org/files/Articles/133421/fnhum-09-0... If that was too much, we wouldn't let people in their 50s drive.
- mring33621 2y agoHave you seen the 'latency' of the average driver on the road these days? Most people appear to take about 2 seconds to respond to any change in conditions.