My (18-year-old) son is now claiming that he'd be much more willing to learn how to drive if he could do it with a "WASD + Mouse" control. I smell an untapped market opportunity.
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The problem is that he has an all-too-realistic understanding of how terrifying cars are. The rest of us just unconsciously suppress that we're never closer to death than when we get into a car. Apparently, he can't.
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Not just terrifying, also... papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.… (a bit unrelated, but also a bit related)
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Replying to @davidbaron @adambroach
More related, I calculated (using not quite comparable data, but still probably the right order of magnitude) that the chance of dying on a 737 MAX flight is the same as the chance of dying when driving 320 miles in the US. For that, we grounded the 737 MAX...

Mar 19, 2019 · 3:09 AM UTC
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