Comment by matsemann
1 day ago
> Most assume the truck driver is being inconsiderate.
From the article. Then goes on to show exactly how they're inconsiderate with maths. How they're not seeing it is baffling.
1 day ago
> Most assume the truck driver is being inconsiderate.
From the article. Then goes on to show exactly how they're inconsiderate with maths. How they're not seeing it is baffling.
Seems to me that the slower truck is really the inconsiderate one here. If you’re already slower, tap the brakes a little and let the other guy slide in.
Or just take the foot of the pedal for a while.
Seems like a game-theoretic problem
Taking their foot off the gas for a second only hurts them
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Or just step on the brakes. This will teach him about safety distance.
> How they're not seeing it is baffling.
It's like when a big co says "now we care greatly about the environment" before going on to detail their plan for something that's laughably bad for it.
They see it. They just phrased the article that way because they don't want to catch hand wringing and hate comments from every idiot who does the exact same thing in their car with slightly different values for the variables outlined and without any of the physics/economics excuses to justify it.
Edit: I hope. I can't read minds, you may very well be right and they don't see it.