| > It’s going to take forever to be implemented if car manufacturers just roll out these things as “premium features” - that’s like enabling a system of charging extra for a car to come with seatbelts. I support safety mandates to implement safety technology in cars and retrofit it to older vehicles too. The road is filled with assholes and dumbasses, and while the assholes certainly suck, as a person who walks/scooters around in the city, the dumbasses are the ones that I've learned to really to watch out for. People looking at their phone while driving, people distracted that are looking away from the road, old people driving that can't even see a crosswalk and don't notice red lights, etc. Part of the reason, I think, are the almost laughable qualifications to renew a license in most places, and another part is the lax assignment of responsibility on drivers to be competent. I trust safety technology to do it's job better than I trust 100% of people to be competent while driving. Like many things, even if 9/10 people do the right thing, all it takes is 1 person to fuck it up for others. |