• Aeao@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        They’d live to disagree. The people you kill by driving blind wouldn’t. That survivorship biase

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        5 hours ago

        They’ll survive. Their cars might not…

        Nobody will die , so I’m not sure what you’re saying.

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          2 days ago

          Rear-ending someone at highway speed is pretty fucking dangerous to everyone involved

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            5 hours ago

            Is this the only argument?

            Because while that’s dangerous, modern safety standards in vehicles mean the probability of mortality in these situations is substantially reduced.

            My point is that people won’t die, not that it’s a good thing to do.

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              4 hours ago

              People die from being rear-ended or rear-ending someone all the time though

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                4 hours ago

                It happens, yes.

                Just like people dying in T-bone or head-on collisions. Not to mention rollovers and other crashes.

                Each of them carries the chance of fatality.

                It’s unpredictable, which is why we can’t eliminate fatalities entirely.

                My most recent point is that even the fatalities from being rear-ended are significantly reduced from even 10-15 years ago. Making the small (but still too high) probability of a fatality from that type of crash, smaller (but still too high).

                Therefore, the most likely outcome from such an incident would be the destruction of property, not loss of life.

                Which is the original point I was being pedantic about. The original comment was that stopping and not driving wouldn’t kill anyone, and the reply that kicked off this insane tangent, was that the people behind might.

                And I’m staying, no, they won’t die (it is statistically very unlikely).

                Edit to include original context:

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            2 days ago

            Irs actually not dangerous in the same way driving blind is. I doubt you care about crumple Zones.

            In one situation you drive blindly into an accident… the other “well rear ending can sometimes be bad!!!”

            It never is. The you’re wrong, crazy, and also stupid.

            You’re entire argument is “driving blindly is safer than stopping blindly” it’s dumb. It’s a dumb argument. When is going ever safer than stopping lol? You are dumb.

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              2 days ago

              You do realize that if you are driving blind on a highway you would probably rear-end someone, same thing you would do by slamming on the breaks lol