| ▲ | dominotw 16 hours ago |
| > Per vehicle mile traveled (VMT), does scale matter at all though? do crashes stay constant per miles driven |
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| ▲ | vel0city 15 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Its a common way of analyzing these kinds of statistics especially on large scales. What other divisor makes sense to you? |
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| ▲ | dominotw 13 hours ago | parent [-] | | same divisor as human comparision. let me ask you the opposite, what divisor(if any ) would make you question it. | | |
| ▲ | brokensegue 10 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Per hour? | |
| ▲ | vel0city 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | VMT is a common divisor used in human traffic comparisons. Like when you're trying to see if a given area is safer than another area to drive, you'll often compare by VMT to have a more fair comparison. As for bad divisors, accidents per car? Accidents per paint color? Accidents per average number of donut shops in the area? I dunno, tons of things. |
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| ▲ | LorenPechtel 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Why in the world wouldn't they? It's always how vehicle safety data is calculated. With human drivers it matters--high mileage drivers are more likely to be driving tired or in poor conditions, low mileage drivers often are losing their abilities. Thus you see elevated risk on the ends of the curve. That doesn't apply to machines, though. |
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| ▲ | dominotw 13 hours ago | parent [-] | | wouldnt we mass approve these everywhere if that was true then? | | |
| ▲ | OkayPhysicist 12 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | They basically are. Waymo's basically spreading as fast as they can 1) verify they can drive safely in the local conditions (SF has fog, but no snow or ice), 2) work with local governments to set up a "what happens when a cop pulls over a Waymo" procedure. | |
| ▲ | xnx 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Uber and misguided anti-car advocacy groups are lobbying against them. Uber doesn't want the competition. Anti-car advocacy groups are deranged in their ire toward anything that looks like a car and have totally lost the plot on transporting people safely, promptly, and affordably. |
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