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There is all this talk about safety but isn't drifting your car inherently dangerous? It's not like you're drifting your car around turns on your way to work.
by snake_plissken 13y ago
There is all this talk about safety but isn't drifting your car inherently dangerous? It's not like you're drifting your car around turns on your way to work. And if you are, you're a jackass and putting everyone else at risk.
- ohazi 13y agoThe benefit comes from automated driving systems being able to handle emergency out-of-control situations safely and predictably, not in regularly being driven around like this. Let's say you're in a self-driving car and get pegged and flung across a highway by another car going 20 mph faster than you. In this case, a driver with high performance training would be better able to land the crash than an average driver that panics and makes unsafe corrective inputs. You want the self-driving car to be able to respond like the high performance driver, which means knowing how to safely drift.