01-05-2023, 01:55 AM
Driverless vehicles could greatly reduce the chances of sideswipes and could prevent tailgating. They could keep cars from drifting into another lane. They might prevent dangerous tailgating. Taking stupidity out of the drive is a good idea. Accommodating a driver who has such a problem as slow reflexes would be a good idea.
Remember that driving a car effectively requires a certain level of intellectual competence, which explains the written test. The average lid who just turned 16 has the level of intellectual acuity of a full adult with an IQ of 80. Written tests are the easy part for an average adult or an above-average 16-year-old. They are well-disguised IQ tests whose theme is driving a car, The equivalent of an IQ of 80 for an adult is just low enough to allow dull-normal adults to drive to a job suited for a dull-normal person while recognizing that conformity is a good idea in normal traffic.
Self-driving cars as a concept implies in practice that someone else sets standards for driving. So we preclude sideswipes, tailgating, and driving too fast for conditions. Feedback to a driver may be part of the new norm, as in a voice that says "Consider stopping for the night. You have 30 minutes left".
Remember that driving a car effectively requires a certain level of intellectual competence, which explains the written test. The average lid who just turned 16 has the level of intellectual acuity of a full adult with an IQ of 80. Written tests are the easy part for an average adult or an above-average 16-year-old. They are well-disguised IQ tests whose theme is driving a car, The equivalent of an IQ of 80 for an adult is just low enough to allow dull-normal adults to drive to a job suited for a dull-normal person while recognizing that conformity is a good idea in normal traffic.
Self-driving cars as a concept implies in practice that someone else sets standards for driving. So we preclude sideswipes, tailgating, and driving too fast for conditions. Feedback to a driver may be part of the new norm, as in a voice that says "Consider stopping for the night. You have 30 minutes left".
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.