Infiniti "Blind Spot Intervention"--Will Toyota please compete?

Volvo has a blind spot system for a few years now.

 

You can eliminate the blind spots completely by adjusting your side view mirrors properly, but all this technology will do is cause drivers to stop checking for cars by turning their heads (much like backup camera) as a result of risk homeostasis.

 

This statement puzzles me seeing as it is coming from a person that has a Prius V that has back-up camera, radar cruise control, lane keep assist and can park itself. Does that make you lazy as well? Do you consider yourself lazy?

Only one of those features will directly keep you from crashing into another car (radar cruise control). LKA is good as well (but only if the highway is clearly marked), the rest of the features on your car are purely for convenience. Should we be worried about your driving?

The infiniti system is much more than the volvo blis, it helps move the car back to the center of the lane if you are going to crash into something in your blind spot.

 

I didn't say anything about being lazy and it has nothing to do with it. It's simply an unintended consequence of shifting risk. Risk homeostasis helps explain why, for example, the number of ER visits increased after the motorcycle and bicycle helmet laws were passed. It also explains why in martial arts, there are far more injuries from performing less dangerous techniques than more dangerous techniques (because students tend to be more careful in executing the latter).

 

Then you yourself should be the first victim of "risk homeostasis". a person truly believes in "risk homeostasis", then there should be no safety features of any kinds, street lights, cross walks, safeties on guns etc, because the safety features would lead to more injuries than they prevent. that person sure would not pay 5k to have more features that would lead them to their deaths.

Correlation is not causation. Motorcycle popularity exploded right before and continued after the introduction of helmet laws. Where Motorcycles became owned by lesser skilled motorcyclists, also the mean age of motorcyclist increased (slower reaction time).

Again Martial arts was not always main stream, was only performed by well trained individuals, trained from birth by only the highest qualified teachers. They trained every day, all day. not go to the dojo in their free weekends. So you expect that the weekend warrior trained by another weekend warrior not expect injuries? Injuries happen when unqualified individuals try something that is best left to qualified individuals.

Wilde was a crack pot and was proven wrong along to ago that the said anecdotal evidence could never be replicated in any data collected by any agency, university or independent third party

 

Not necessarily, because the benefits outweigh the drawbacks. Safety features will still save lives even though people drive faster, corner harder, etc. Even a back-up camera will dramatically reduce the risk of backing deaths while at the same time increase the risk of not catching obstacles outside of the back-up camera view.

That's really beside the point. I'm a martial artist. Even within the same technique, I've seen less injuries from performing a more "dangerous" variation of it. Students tend to be more careful/move slower in performing these variations compared to the less "dangerous" versions.

 

Then that's not "risk homeostasis". Wilde's theory, which i studied in adult behavior psychology, really boils down to not matter what safety features are implemented people will act more dangerous to negate ANY possible "safety"/reduced risk gained from that feature. That wiki article is really skimpy on info, but it did have his famous abs study.

 

I don't agree with all aspects of Wilde's theory, but shifting risk is a real phenomenon and I simply call it "risk homeostasis" for lack of a better term. I see it in my martial arts studies and it helps explain why helmet wearing-motorcyclists/bicyclists/skateboarders take on more risk and behave less carefully than they would have otherwise. Let me know if there is a better term to describe this phenomenon.