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In my teens and twenties I was very confident in my driving. As I've gotten older my self confidence and my confidence in others' driving abilities and attention to the road have eroded significantly. I've been rear ended several times, almost gotten hit by reckless drivers, and a few friends have died in traffic accidents. With every year that goes by, getting in the car feel more like a game of Russian roulette to…
It should be part of driver ed but it sadly isn't, so one needs to take initiative to get to them.
I wonder if it's an age thing. I'm 20, I have quite little fear and I think most of my peers feel the same way. I'm planning to buy a Tesla the second they let me buy one with bitcoin and I 100% plan to daily drive autopilot on city streets when it's ready, I really can't picture any of my friends being like wtf turn that shit off. Edit: Disregard, I thought it was self driving related not full robotaxi that shit is…
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People seem to be very bad with subjective averages. Just like 80% of men on OkCupid were rated by women to be below average.
That could very well mean that mostly the below-average men are creating accounts on OkCupid, though.
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Driving skills are literally to be normally distributed, which this distribution is not.
Disagree, the first driver might get in 1 accident every million miles and the other drivers one every 9 million, objectively 9 times better.
Conclusion: "Most drivers [that I notice] suck."
89% of horse riders were afraid of riding a train.
In that analogy, though, what we have now isn't a train: it's a half-finished engine that usually works as expected but sometimes spontaneously derails.