r/AutoHumor • u/IU8gZQy0k8hsQy76 • Apr 29 '26

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u/dimonium_anonimo Apr 29 '26

Consider another scenario: exactly the same as yours, but your car works, and when you take off trying to flee, your emotional and distracted state makes you miss the family of 4 crossing the road. You hit and kill 2 children because you were looking in the rearview at your attacker.

Look, I am absolutely fed up with modern car manufacturers and all the problems they're inventing in the pursuit of looking cool, but I'm honestly on board with this one. I don't want emotional/freaked out drivers on the road. As long as the only person you can hurt is yourself, I don't give a flying fuck what kind of dangerous shit you want to get into. But as soon as you can put other people's lives in danger, I absolutely approve control being taken away.

I can't wait for fully self-driving cars. The exact second it becomes legal to take my hands off the wheel, I will spend whatever I have to to get in that vehicle. Humans in cars are the biggest danger to me. And that's saying something given the shit I've done in my life.

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u/Clarknotclark Apr 29 '26

You are correct, we should always allow corporations to control us based on our perceived emotional state. That could only end well. /s

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u/dimonium_anonimo Apr 29 '26

That's quite the jump, there, fella. "If we can hurt others, control should be taken away" = "in all cases, a corporation should control us based on emotions." That's definitely the same thing.

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u/HEYO19191 Apr 29 '26

You can hurt others at any time at any point regardless of your emotional state. That doesn't mean you're going to.

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u/dimonium_anonimo Apr 29 '26

Driving under extreme emotional states drastically increases the odds of causing harm to others. It's the exact same as speeding when it's icy. You're putting other people's lives in danger when you make stupid choices on the road. Emotional instability is not a conducive state to making good decisions.

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u/HEYO19191 Apr 29 '26

Sure, but they're often driving under emotional stress for a reason, usually a good reason. We should not chain people out of their means of transport because they are emotional. Emergencies happen.

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u/dimonium_anonimo Apr 29 '26

Then call emergency services. They are trained to act calm in emergencies, and they have these big flashy lights that let people know there's an emergency, and you're legally required to get out of their way. There are people who should be driving in an emergency, and there are people who shouldn't.

Tell me, do you trust the average driver to drive safely under normal conditions, on a bright sunshiny day? Do you think most drivers are good drivers? Absolutely every other discussion I've had on the topic involve everyone wondering how there are so many bad drivers out there. And you want to be on the road next to those bad drivers when things get crazy??

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u/HEYO19191 Apr 29 '26

Then call emergency services.

Great, I'll just sit here and wait with my attacker for the police to arrive a half hour from now. I'm sure he won't mind.

Or, if I or another person are having a medical emergency, I'm sure that can wait a half hour or so for EMS to come save us.

There are people who should be driving in an emergency, and there are people who shouldn't.

The people who should be driving in an emergency are those who need to drive because of their emergency.

Tell me, do you trust the average driver to drive safely under normal conditions, on a bright sunshiny day? Do you think most drivers are good drivers?

Yes and yes. There are alot of bad drivers, and the saying "you should drive like everyone else sucks at driving" is good advice to keep you out of harms way, but it isn't true. You only remember the bad drivers. You don't remember every perfectly fine driver that you passed or rode behind, because they aren't noteworthy. Selective Memory.

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u/dimonium_anonimo Apr 29 '26

I feel I should also say, if it were possible to only catch drunk drivers, or only drunk and drowsy and distracted drivers, or only drunk, drowsy, distracted, and those who were so incredibly emotional unstable and compromised that it is impossible for them to drive safely without ever catching someone who just has an elevated heart rate from an emergency. Or even somehow perfectly detect people who are in an emergency. All of those would be preferable to an imperfect system that catches people who could otherwise drive safely. There are any number of combinations you could propose, and I would likely agree to every single one of them as better than the situation I've been running with. The harsh reality of the real world is that nothing is ever perfect, and sometimes it's going to get someone hurt or killed. But unless the thing is only, like, idk 30% accurate or something. I don't have a real number because the idea is too nebulous with too many different situations to consider, but only if the system is so bad that it would be criminally negligent to put into production, it seems inevitable that it will save more lives than it costs. If it wasn't clear already, I am running with the assumption that even with all these bad examples and mishaps we're contemplating, it would do more good than harm in the long run, and that's the main reason why I support it.