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But why would you tailgate a driverless car? I think usually people tailgate to intimidate the person ahead of them to drive faster.
by dmicah 1y ago
But why would you tailgate a driverless car? I think usually people tailgate to intimidate the person ahead of them to drive faster.
- dazc 1y agoBecause that works every time?
- gffrd 1y agoPeople tailgate because they're toddlers and locate their locus of control externally - if anything, they'll be very happy tailgating driverless cars because they can throw as big a fit as they want, there will be no consequences, and they'll feel they got to blame something else other than themselves.
- hardwaregeek 1y agoBecause there’s still someone in the car, they just have no way to defend themselves. You can tailgate and honk at them to your heart’s content. Well at least until they call the police but that’s pretty far. And there are other forms of aggression that do accomplish something. If you cut a Waymo off or beat it to merge, you get ahead of it. In some locales I could see a whole series of cars merging ahead of a Waymo if people are aggressive enough.