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JoshuaZ comments on Open thread, Feb. 16 - Feb. 22, 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: polymathwannabe 22 February 2015 05:02:14PM 0 points [-]

"When visibility is poor, people have car accidents because they can't see what's ahead of them, right? Actually, the Mandelbaum Effect implies that sometimes people have accidents because they aren't even looking for what's ahead of them. [...] Although it's possible to test for it, no one quite knows how to compensate for the effect yet."

Comment author: JoshuaZ 22 February 2015 05:35:21PM 1 point [-]

I may be becoming a bit too obsessed with self-driving cars, but this seems like one more strong argument for them.

Comment author: Daniel_Burfoot 23 February 2015 04:43:06AM 1 point [-]

Probably other people are insufficiently obsessed with self-driving cars.

Comment author: ChristianKl 23 February 2015 10:24:50AM 0 points [-]

Most of the people who move we technology forward are obsessed.