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After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers (arstechnica.com)

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I completely disagree.

You are using the hand brake as an example. 95 percent of people (including you, evidently) don't even understand that the handbrake is not an emergency brake, they don't get how the behavior works, or the fact that it's meant to be used as a parking brake, I consistently see people slam their parking pawls verytime they get out of their car. (Not to mention that it doesn't even work while you are driving on most modern cars and has no modulation, as it's just a button)

If not being an idiot was good enough to drive a car, then it wouldn't be so deadly. It's also possible to fly a plane with common sense, but you wouldn't be happy if your pilot told you they don't have training.

Driving isn't easy, it's just that we accept an absolutely catastrophic amount of accidents as a cost of doing business.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

It is an emergency brake when your brake fails, you donut. Again, it's part of safety driving courses, that you clearly didn't take.

I am also from Europe, drivers are much better here compared to the US, just because your country absolutely sucks at training it's drivers despite being entirely reliant on them is not my fault