Nvidia doesn’t give a shit, they will make their drivers as high risk as is necessary to stay ahead of AMD.
No wonder all my games look plaid. It’s the ludicrous FPS.
Did you even look at the article?
I think this phenomenon is called a joke in parlance
Whoosh
Isn’t this what insurance is doing now with all the data harvesting? But I guess the threat of insurance premiums going up still doesn’t deter reckless drivers either.
No, they’re harassing the good/poor drivers instead
Here’s the thing about that, the truly awful drivers who legitimately have no business owning or operating a vehicle do so anyway, but usually without insurance in the first place. Or, often, even a license.
Wait until you find out that some states allow you to drive without insurance and be a burden of the state…
Road design > personal responsibility
I feel like this is a gigantic blind spot in our society that affects many issues. It’s always about the systems and environments we place people in.
You are right, but probably not the way you think.
Because it has been shown that what would traditionally be called extremely bad road design, with narrow lanes and little room for maneuvering, roads that look bad on the surface, actually make people pay attention, and cause fewer accidents.
It’s been implemented in Amsterdam and some UK cities with great success, making accidents drop dramatically.This is, in fact, exactly what I meant.
Can you elaborate on how road design could help with this?
Windy roads make people slow down for all the turns. Narrow roads make people slow down because most don’t have a great sense of how big their car is. Bumpy roads make people slow down and wakes people up. Even how lanes are painted changes how people drive.
Those roads make sane people slow down. Insane drivers (and there’s too many) say, "I’ll drift on those curves! I’ll see how much air I can catch on those bumps! And I’ll use the Force on that narrow canyon! " And they forget entirely that those curves may hide a pedestrian.
Road design is part of it but improving road design only improves ‘reasonable’ drivers, and things like chicanes, lane narrowing, and speed bumps cause issues for larger commercial vehicles like buses.
Persistent asshole drivers will still drive drunk or drive dementia, run red lights, or go three times the speed a road is built for.
“the systems and environments we place people in” is not just the road. It’s the licensing regime, the society that makes having a car necessary even if you can’t drive safely or afford to maintain it, and that doesn’t mandate effective ongoing training.
Urban planning should account for routing large commercial vehicles while maintaining safe streets. This runs into a particular beef I have: driveways should never open onto arterial roads.
Other countries have FAR harder driving tests and FAR stiffer penalties for breaking the rules. In the US, we treat driving like a human right, so people have no respect for anything or anyone around them when inside their car.
Almost like the problems stem from the car lobby, and not trains.
I would simply tell the sleep deprived mother with the screaming toddler in the back seat to be careful.
The trucker who has been driving continuously for 36 hours? The businessman just off a red-eye flight with an eight hour time change? The ER nurse who caught the flu on her all-nighter shift? The high schooler with a full two weeks of driving experience? Just slip a letter in their mailboxes.
Can confirm, need to make other drivers pay for my insecurities, letters only make my insecurities bigger and my ding dong smaller
High risk drivers identified researchers and sent them letters urging them to quit sending letters and get out of the goddamn way, some people have places to be, jesus christ MOVE YOUR ASS GRANDMA. They found it had a profound effect
They identified 45,000 risky drivers in DC? Out of 700,000 residents? That seems like a lot, considering I doubt they’re all out on the road at the same time.
Whatis that, like 6%? Seems about right to me. Might even be a little low. There’s a LOT of terrible drivers who can’t stop scrolling Instagram long enough to get to the grocery store.
Sounds like you’ve never had the pleasure of driving in DC or around it on 495. Nightmare fuel
