Two Dead in Bonanza Crash in South Florida [Video]

SlumTodd_Millionaire said:
As they should. Contrary to what the Age 65 crowed pushed with their absurd rhetoric, cognitive research is pretty clear and has been for quite some time that cognitive ability deteriorates after 60, and deteriorates precipitously after 70.
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I can’t speak specifically to the airlines but I sure as hell see it personally as 67 approaches. While there were other contributing factors, I got out of the 911 game when I did for this very reason. When seconds literally make a difference, my cognitive response should shouldn’t delay things while the “switches” get thrown more slowly than once they did.

Could I have done it for a while longer? Yes, absolutely. Would that have been, objectively, the best decision? Not a chance in hell. Next step is deciding when to hang-up the car keys. I think there are still a few years left, but we’ll see. Pilot a plane now? Nope.

YMMV.
 
Bob Ridpath said:
I can’t speak specifically to the airlines but I sure as hell see it personally as 67 approaches. While there were other contributing factors, I got out of the 911 game when I did for this very reason. When seconds literally make a difference, my cognitive response should shouldn’t delay things while the “switches” get thrown more slowly than once they did.

Could I have done it for a while longer? Yes, absolutely. Would that have been, objectively, the best decision? Not a chance in hell. Next step is deciding when to hang-up the car keys. I think there are still a few years left, but we’ll see. Pilot a plane now? Nope.

YMMV.
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I still hope to have a cup of coffee with you someday.

-Sasha
 
JDean3204 said:
My baby brother died of SIDS at 8 months old. The wound is still deep with my mother 30 years later, his birthday and date of death every year she has a hard time. Especially since he died during the holiday season, it’s pretty sad. I couldn’t imagine losing my son, but life is fragile and at times not at all fair to even the best of people.
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I don't believe that any parent ever "gets over" the loss of their child. The pain and despair must be just horrendous and soothed by nothing. At some point and to each person, they somehow, find the strength and the will to try to carry on.

I am so very sorry for the loss of your brother. All you can do I guess is to remember him, send your love out to him and try to comfort your Mom. It's difficult, since she still carries and will forever carry that awful moment when her life changed forever and under such a terrible circumstance.
 
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A Life Aloft said:
I don't believe that any parent ever "gets over" the loss of their child. The pain and despair must be just horrendous and soothed by nothing. At some point and to each person, they find the strength to try to carry on.

I am so very sorry for the loss of your brother. All you can do I guess is to remember him, send your love out to him and try to comfort your Mom. It's difficult, since she still carries and will forever carry that awful moment when her life changed forever and under such a terrible circumstance.
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As someone who has no children I realize that I can't possibly empathize the loss a parent must feel when their child dies, all I can do is rely on my own experiences of loss. Every immediate family member I've known, including grandparents, have passed with the exception of my mom. When my brother died I couldn't understand what she was going through, and I'm sure our experiences, while simultaneously very deep, were very different. A couple of years after he died we were talking about him and she mentioned that if anyone asks her about any children anymore she tells them she's only ever had one son (me). I wasn't happy with that, I thought it belittled my brothers memory so I asked her why. She said it hurt too much to explain to people she had lost a son to suicide and felt that they'd think she was a bad mother, the stigma surrounding mental illness is real and how it's being treated with psychotropic drugs is cruel.
 
I’d be lying if I said I didn’t think about the fact that a part of me worries when my wife is going somewhere with our 3 kids in the car without me. The idea my entire world could vanish because of a drunk driver or something is terrifying.
 
ozziecat35 said:
I’d be lying if I said I didn’t think about the fact that a part of me worries when my wife is going somewhere with our 3 kids in the car without me. The idea my entire world could vanish because of a drunk driver or something is terrifying.
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Exactly why we need driverless cars and stat. Every American has about a 1 in 104 chance of dying from a car crash. That's alarmingly high for something that we all do every single day, and hardly anybody seems to think about it.
 
SlumTodd_Millionaire said:
Every American has about a 1 in 104 chance of dying from a car crash. That's alarmingly high for something that we all do while texting-eating-putting-on-makeup-reading-the-newspaper-video-conferencing-doing-crosswords-having-sex and hardly anybody seems to think about it.
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FTFY. Yes, I've seen all of that happen while driving.
 
SlumTodd_Millionaire said:
All you're doing is proving my point for me that we need driverless cars ASAP.
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Tall order. I think Larry Niven, in one of his novels, pointed out that large scale automated systems don't work unless EVERYTHING is automated. Even with an 80/20 split, you have a 20 percent random factor that will never be fool proof no matter how hard you try (there are always bigger fools). My guess is that whatever that fraction its, it will be the people who can't afford the latest/greatest.

You going to make "manual driving" illegal? Because that's what it will take.

You might make a dent with various forms of "soft automation", like brake assist and the like, but again, you are picking winners and losers.
 
Richman said:
Tall order. I think Larry Niven, in one of his novels, pointed out that large scale automated systems don't work unless EVERYTHING is automated. Even with an 80/20 split, you have a 20 percent random factor that will never be fool proof no matter how hard you try (there are always bigger fools). My guess is that whatever that fraction its, it will be the people who can't afford the latest/greatest.
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First, the idea that anything has to be "fool proof" is silly. If we even reduced road fatalities by 10%, that would be an enormous benefit. But it wouldn't simply be 10%, in my view. We could eliminate the vast majority. Come ride in my Tesla and see how it works, even with the basic level of self-driving it already has.

You going to make "manual driving" illegal?
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Yes, please.
 
SlumTodd_Millionaire said:
First, the idea that anything has to be "fool proof" is silly. If we even reduced road fatalities by 10%, that would be an enormous benefit. But it wouldn't simply be 10%, in my view. We could eliminate the vast majority. Come ride in my Tesla and see how it works, even with the basic level of self-driving it already has.



Yes, please.
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Aren’t you the guy who ranted about freedom and how if people don’t want to wear a mask other people need to either accept the risk or stay home?
 
JordanD said:
Aren’t you the guy who ranted about freedom and how if people don’t want to wear a mask other people need to either accept the risk or stay home?
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Safety requirements for vehicles is nothing new. No one is proposing outlawing cars. I'm only proposing regulations that would require automakers to include autopilots in their cars, no differently than we require seat belts to be installed now. That's not a question of personal freedom. It's a question of regulating manufacture, which the constitution clearly allows under the Commerce Clause.
 
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