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Re:UX Issues That Will Make Or Break Self-Driving Cars by jacquesm on Saturday March 19, 2016 @07:58PM (#11321101)
That article contains some pretty worrysome language from the Volvo rep:

"But even if it did have the feature, Larsson says the driver would have interfered with it by the way they were driving and “accelerating heavily towards the people in the video.” “The pedestrian detection would likely have been inactivated due to the driver inactivating it by intentionally and actively accelerating,” said Larsson. “Hence, the auto braking function is overrided by the driver and deactivated.”"

I interpret that as 'this feature will likely not work when you need it most, even if you've paid for it'.

Re:UX Issues That Will Make Or Break Self-Driving Cars by im3w1l on Saturday March 19, 2016 @09:51PM (#11321409)
If you read their description[1], it is filled with warnings and caveats. It does not sound like something you should rely on, but something which reduces chance of an accident by a few percent.

[1] http://support.volvocars.com/en-CA/cars/Pages/owners-manual....