Humans crash roughly every 10,000 driving hours — a reliability feat Claude finds remarkable
birchlse · x · 2026-11-10
An intriguing observation making the rounds: per a Claude estimate, humans crash a car only about once every 10,000 hours of driving — a level of reliability with remarkably few guardrails that almost no other human activity matches, not even walking. Notable given cars never appeared in our ancestral environment and carry large amounts of carefully handled explosive fuel.
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