you know it’s a fucking banger when you try to collapse the top comment in the thread to skip all the folks litigating over the value of an ebike and more than 2/3rds of the comments in an 884 comment long thread disappear

also featuring many takes from understanders of statistics:

I’m wary about using public roads to test these, but I think the way the data is presented is misleading. I’m not sure how it’s misleading, but separating “incidents” into categories (safety, traffic, accident, etc) might be a good start.

For example, I could start coning cruise cars, and cause these numbers to skyrocket. While that’s an inconvenience to other drivers, it’s not a safety issue at all.

By the way, as a motorcyclist (and thus hyper annoyed at bad driving), I find Uber/Lyft/Food drivers to be both much more dangerous and inconveniencing than these self driving cars.

  • @selfOPAEnglish
    6•1 year ago

    Depending where someone put a cone on my car i would possibly just run them over or drive off unsafely if i felt that it was an attempt to rob me or steal my car.

    How far gone are you to think that kidnapping and robbery aren’t violent acts that justify violent responses? If you try to detain me illegally (also known as false imprisonment) you’re just asking for a face full of lead.

    this thread has all of my least favorite mechanized fash, including a bunch of folks defending running over protestors