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I assure you that if you jump in front of a moving train you will be killed. How is this different?

• princeb 9y ago
  cars are not trains, for one. road usage is shared among cars, motorcycles and scooters, trucks, pedestrians, bicycles, mobility scooters, and other things.
  • akkat 9y ago
    Train tracks are also shared at train crossings. Yet if a car went there after the warning lights went on, the car would be to blame.
    • petee 9y ago
      So autonomous vehicles should come with flashing warning lights every where they go? Also, trains don't change lanes, or stop quickly. Its simply a bad analogy.
      • akkat 9y ago
        You are right, a better analogy would be if a person tried to cross in the middle of a random track segment. The woman didn't cross at a crosswalk so that part of road was not designated to pedestrians at all. Cars (at lease autonomous ones) signal before changing lanes and slowing down. I think that flashing lights is too annoying, but forcing cars that drive in the night to have lights sounds like a reasonable (and existent) rule.
• cesarb 9y ago
  The main difference is that a train, even under emergency braking, can't stop quickly, and it also can't swerve to avoid an obstacle. If you jump in front of a moving train, even if the train driver could see you before you jumped and could predict you would jump, you will get hit.