When driving (especially long distances, being tired, etc.), sometimes you do things which only in retrospect you realise were not the safest manoeuvre to perform.
I often wondered whether people would be scared if they had an analogue gauge installed in their car dashboard which would be showing the current likelihood of them (or their passengers) being killed in an accident in the next, say 3 minutes.
I guess, some of us would get freaked out often enough to drive more carefully. or perhaps not drive at all.
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@FailForward I think honestly it would encourage more reckless behavior..
Even if you were driving extremely wreckless your chance of dying within 3 minutes would appear very low, even though in reality its a high number.
Imagine a gauge that said 1%, most would think that would represent pretty safe driving. But if sustained that would represent a 1% chance of death over 3 minutes but a much higher 18.2% chance over the course of any hour and a 33.1% chance over 2 hours.
Presuming you commute an hour to work and an hour back once a day (something not hat uncommon) its a 86.6% chance of death in a week.
Humans have a very very bad perception of exponential growth, which is what such a gauge would show, an exponential growth factor. So most humans would probably die a **lot** faster if they had such a gauge ironically enough.
