• atrielienz@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    The idea is to highlight them on the road so they are harder to miss (I assume).

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    Gadgets and Wearables notes that the early code suggests that Waze will be able to leverage Garmin’s LiveTrack location data to show nearby drivers where cyclists are, presumably to help drivers look out for cyclists along their route.

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        17 hours ago

        I’ve been in a car with people where I’ve had to point out to them pedestrians, cyclists, motorcycles, and other vehicles.

        I’ve been merged into like I wasn’t even there on multiple occasions (extremely terrifying on a bicycle).

        People are bad at measuring distance while moving at speed. And their situational awareness very often leaves much to be desired. But this (while a novel approach) is a terrible idea.

        • FridaVermercury@discuss.tchncs.de
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          Yeah I mean the solution to that is that these kinds of people probably shouldn’t be allowed to drive a multi-ton killing machine. But I know how realistic that solution is.