[larvaetron]

> Cars unlike aircraft don’t need to move forward to maintain safety.

They do if they're crossing railroad tracks.

[Retric]

You can get out of a car on railroad tracks. However, “safely come to a complete stop” includes turns and freeways which are more serious concerns.

That’s why I said 30 seconds / 30 minutes not 3 seconds. The idea is to go to somewhere safe and pull off the road not just slam on the breaks and hope your not on a curve.

[david38]

A narrow case easily accounted for

[ben_w]

Enumerating all the narrow edge cases has proven surprisingly difficult.

[triplesec]

but train tracks is not that kind of edge case, tbh, it's so vanishingly situational

[ben_w]

"Train tracks" are a subset of all the edge cases in the set "car can't just stop and stay stopped and that's safe".

[maximilianthe1]

In case of self-drive malfunction you still have a gas pedal under a human's foot