Re:Volvo's Self Driving Pilot in Hands of Customers
by mdorazio on Thursday May 12, 2016 @01:29AM
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Do you consider automatic braking part of autopilot? Several cars already do this if they think you're going to hit something in front of you at low speed.
Re:Volvo's Self Driving Pilot in Hands of Customers
by gambiting on Thursday May 12, 2016 @06:38AM
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If you are actually pressing the throttle the car will chime several warnings but won't stop you - any car that I know of that has the automatic collision avoidance feature only brakes for you if the foot is off the throttle.
Re:Volvo's Self Driving Pilot in Hands of Customers
by mdorazio on Thursday May 12, 2016 @09:43AM
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I don't think that's accurate, at least on the luxury cars where I've seen it implemented. Take a look at this list [1]. In many cases you could overpower the automatic braking by applying more throttle, but the brakes will definitely apply automatically to some degree if they think you're going to hit something.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collision_avoidance_system
Re:Volvo's Self Driving Pilot in Hands of Customers
by gambiting on Thursday May 12, 2016 @10:03AM
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Hmmmm yeah, I knew you could definitely do that in Nissans, and wiki offers an explanation:
"it alerts the driver using both a screen display and sound, then generates a force that pushes the accelerator pedal up" - so I guess it's like you said, you can just press the throttle harder and ignore the warning if you really know what you are doing.
The source says "light steering inputs if the system senses the vehicle is about to veer off the road." So it sounds like if you're full-on aiming for the ditch it won't really affect you.
I hope no car will ever unexpectedly turn on autopilot in the middle of driving. Either eliminate human control entirely, or let the human control it until they decide not to.