On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Allan Streib <str...@cs.indiana.edu> wrote:

> On the other hand there are some studies that suggest that people
> individually have a certain internal "risk tolerance" and if you give
> them safety systems like all-wheel drive and ABS and radar and night
> vision, etc. they will just drive more aggressively up to the point
> where their internal sense of "risk" is back at its limit, at least
> partially offsetting the benefit of the safety systems.

Especially true, I'd guess, of stability control, which is so often
described as making this Ferrari or that Porsche "seem to defy the
laws of physics" when cornering---the key word being "seem."

Alex

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