• taladar@sh.itjust.works
    6·
    6 months ago

    Anyway people in car are still people.

    Yes, but a lot of behaviour in a vehicle is determined by the vehicle and the road design so actually in a sense they aren’t. Someone might behave in a bad way as a driver despite being a nice person in other places. The same is true for other vehicles and their respective design encouraging or constraining certain behaviours and risks too.

    • lgsp@feddit.it
      3·
      6 months ago

      This is good point, I didn’t consider.

      Another point is that people who ride bikes is usually more careful when driving a car, I remember also a scientific paper stating this

      • taladar@sh.itjust.works
        4·
        6 months ago

        In a sense it is probably closely related to the effects where people behave differently on social media than in RL interactions or drone operators behave differently from pilots in the craft or artillery makes it easier to kill than looking someone in the eye when stabbing them with a short sword or how a temporary CEO hired specifically for it has an easier time firing 10000 people than a family CEO who knows half of their families. The perception of our environment, how people in our environment can perceive us and our options for interacting with our environment does influence our behaviour.