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Can anyone speak to this? Am I observing this on some kind of bias?
On a more broad note, I wonder how useful it really is to know that a specific vehicle acted recklessly sometime in the past. Seeing someone behaving poorly is good reason to avoid them on the roadway. However I also imagine a scenario where one driver did something to warrant an alert, and some time later every car on the roadway is trying to avoid that vehicle. Is there really any danger from that vehicle in the current situation?
What I would like to see is a map showing where the most incidents occur, and what type of incidents occur there. I assume most drivers genuinely set out intending to behave well, but do not for various reasons. Identifying locations where incidents happen would give civil engineers some valuable data about how their designs impact behavior, and would give police valuable information about where their presence would be useful.
Assuming that insurance is correctly priced, buying a policy in any form is negative expected value. The companies that write such policies would slowly bleed dry if that wasn't the case. However, that's irrelevant unless you have the bankroll to withstand tail risk. Given that most people don't, as a society, you pretty much have to make things like auto liability insurance compulsory. If you're a "good driver," as…
> Assuming that insurance is correctly priced, buying a policy in any form is negative expected value Actually it's quite rare for insurance companies to record an underwriting profit, I believe. Their profit generally comes from investing the pool of premiums. If you invested your premium instead of buying insurance however, then I suppose the expected return would have to be better.
Today I pulled into a turn lane and stopped alongside the car ahead of me to let them know their brake lights were out. Had to honk incessantly to get their attention. Then I waited in the wrong lane (no one behind me) to pull back into my original lane to go straight through the light. Probably would get a demerit from an AI for that maneuver.
There seems to be a disturbing trend of Israeli developers creating software that crosses some serious ethical lines. A few offhand: this, an iPhone backdoor exploit they're hiding and have provided to the us government, I believe the biggest license plate reader developer is Israeli. Can anyone speak to this? Am I observing this on some kind of bias?
I'm all for this. Especially in Bay Area traffic. It looks like about 95% of the time I get some tailgater because I leave enough room in front of my car to brake. If I dont' want to get tailgated, I end up tailgating. I seriously wish these people would either shape up or stop driving cars altogether.
Also think of this way: if you both tailgate, and you have to brake, you will be hitting both the one in front of you, and getting hit in the back. If you don't tailgate and only get tailgated, you will only get hit in the back. (And have a way better defence for your insurance company.)
(PS I'm going to assume this is tailgating on the highway ?)
I've considered building something like this for bikes. For those who aren't cyclists, there are already informal networks of people who share helmet-cam videos of bad driving behaviour, with people who attempt to read license plates etc
As a driver, I have been at the receiving end of abusive gestures and language even when following the law. In one case, I yielded to a bicyclist who was in blatant violation of the law[0], because failure to do so would have endangered him. He showed me his middle finger. Another was angry that I was in the bicycle lane making a right-hand turn, as required by law and common sense.
As a cyclist, I have given up trying to educate my fellow cyclists, and generally won't ride with others anymore.
[0]I was already turning through the intersection after having made a stop. The bicyclist arrived in the middle of my turn and entered the intersection without stopping for the stop sign.
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There'd have to be a very big reward for me voluntarily becoming Big Brother, and especially for tattling on myself.
I wonder how well this will scale with time. I've certainly done things while driving that were reckless to varying degrees, I suspect most drivers have as well. How long until 50% of cars on the road have been tagged doing something reckless? Of course I can imagine a number of ways to handle this. On a more broad note, I wonder how useful it really is to know that a specific vehicle acted recklessly sometime in the…
What we should be interested in is the top one percent.