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And what a great tip it is! "Drive so that if you need to brake, you don't collide". No shit, Sherlock. In other words, people just need to always drive far slower than what everyo…

>> Good start, but that doesn't say that night driving isn't safe. It also doesn't say that it is safe. It lists all kind of risks that make it unsafe in one way or another. Whose …

"Oh my god, I accidentally killed someone" is something quite different from "Oh my god, my willful negligence alone has caused a fatality and I'm ready to take full responsibility…

https://seriousaccidents.com/legal-advice/top-causes-of-car-...

I'm making a prediction on what's likely to happen based on well-researched human psychology. Again, the keyword is "cognitive dissonance". It encompasses all aspects of human life…

What is that supposed to mean ? What's prudent and what is safe? The reality is that driving at night isn't safe at all and that people often can't avoid collision from an obstacle…

>> Possibly. But a distracted driver is definitely at fault, no matter what. Both parties are at fault, I'm not denying that. That's not the point. >> Pretty good. Most people are …

First of all, in this scenario, the woman would have at least shared some of the blame. Second of all, what are the odds that a human who just killed a woman would admit even to th…

What is that supposed to mean? You can't have 100% safety at any speed. If it really is incumbent upon the driver to always drive at night in such a way that no collision can occur…

That's not really true. Thousands of deer get killed on the road every year, because deer aren't smart enough not to be an obstacle when it's dark. Do we therefore change all the s…

The whole point of this piece is to put the blame on a human programmer, of course. What's there to "sloppily" program here? Most likely, somebody set an arbitrary threshold consta…

Yes. They said "preliminarily" the Uber driver was not at fault. Judging from the footage, that was reasonable. You can't put the blame off the woman, you can't just cross a road a…