One immediate complication that came to mind is that modern cars are just so jam-packed with stuff already that it would take engineers and design time to figure out where to put such a device or mechanism.
This is just speculation, but it seems like if there were a way to immediately deflate tires, you would increase the surface area touching the road, which could increase friction drastically at the cost of probably destroying your tires. It wouldn’t work on an icy road very well, of course.
Edit: This subject matters to me a lot more now than it would have 10 hours ago. Now I have a dilemma about whether to let my girlfriend ever drive my car again. It seems Bayes can help me on this problem:
Girlfriend has driven the car, with me as the passenger a total of about 7 times in the past four years.
Girlfriend has been in collisions or crashes a total of 3 times in the past four years (100% of those were with me as passenger)
Girlfriend has driven the car hundreds of times to get to work or do shopping or hang out with friends while I sleep or stay at home (most of the driving has been in the past 8 months), with no traffic incidents that I know about. Which I would know pretty quickly, since I regularly inspect the car.
So, P(crash|girlfriend is driving me around) ~ 43%
P(crash|no me in car) ~ .5%
It seems obvious I should never let her drive me anywhere again. But should I let her drive by herself? I want to say no, but I also don’t want to have to drive her everywhere and cut into my sleep time, which isn’t a notion I can easily set as a prior. I am tempted to say “not enough information”, maybe LW has some clever advice? To be totally honest, even though it was just over 8 hours ago, I still feel dumb and panicky. Curse you, adrenaline!
So, P(crash|girlfriend is driving me around) ~ 43% P(crash|no me in car) ~ .5%
Only if you assume that your girlfriend driving with you in the card and her driving without you in the car are completely different and one conveys no information about the other.
I recommend also “retracting” the deletion. It removes the voting ability and as such is slightly closer to what a delete should be. That is, when people are voting you down in the temporal or ideological context they cannot no longer downvote the particular comment half-deleted placeholder.
One immediate complication that came to mind is that modern cars are just so jam-packed with stuff already that it would take engineers and design time to figure out where to put such a device or mechanism.
This is just speculation, but it seems like if there were a way to immediately deflate tires, you would increase the surface area touching the road, which could increase friction drastically at the cost of probably destroying your tires. It wouldn’t work on an icy road very well, of course.
Edit: This subject matters to me a lot more now than it would have 10 hours ago. Now I have a dilemma about whether to let my girlfriend ever drive my car again. It seems Bayes can help me on this problem:
Girlfriend has driven the car, with me as the passenger a total of about 7 times in the past four years. Girlfriend has been in collisions or crashes a total of 3 times in the past four years (100% of those were with me as passenger) Girlfriend has driven the car hundreds of times to get to work or do shopping or hang out with friends while I sleep or stay at home (most of the driving has been in the past 8 months), with no traffic incidents that I know about. Which I would know pretty quickly, since I regularly inspect the car.
So, P(crash|girlfriend is driving me around) ~ 43% P(crash|no me in car) ~ .5%
It seems obvious I should never let her drive me anywhere again. But should I let her drive by herself? I want to say no, but I also don’t want to have to drive her everywhere and cut into my sleep time, which isn’t a notion I can easily set as a prior. I am tempted to say “not enough information”, maybe LW has some clever advice? To be totally honest, even though it was just over 8 hours ago, I still feel dumb and panicky. Curse you, adrenaline!
Only if you assume that your girlfriend driving with you in the card and her driving without you in the car are completely different and one conveys no information about the other.
You’re right, I should have said P(crash AND girlfriend driving), not given. Thanks.
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I recommend also “retracting” the deletion. It removes the voting ability and as such is slightly closer to what a delete should be. That is, when people are voting you down in the temporal or ideological context they cannot no longer downvote the particular comment half-deleted placeholder.
Interesting … I was pretty sure previous retractions of mine continued to get votes.
Edit: And it looks like you can do a full delete after a retraction! Beware trivial inconveniences...
Ahh! Fantastic. (You need to refresh the page to show the delete feature.)
You can?