Forget self-driving car anxiety: In the early days human drivers were the fear

Re:Forget self-driving car anxiety: In the early days human ... by Asooka on Monday November 07, 2016 @11:30AM (#12892294)

You can probably fit a device on your car that will make it legal to drive on "safe" roads. Something that actively looks out to prevent crashes and doesn't let you drive over the speed limit, for example, but doesn't actually steer the car. Similar to how when new laws on exhaust emissions passed, you could just upgrade the exhaust system without buying a whole new car.

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Re:Forget self-driving car anxiety: In the early days human ... by gambiting on Monday November 07, 2016 @11:41AM (#12892382)

I was saying for a while now, that we could probably reduce 90% of accidents by mandating that every car is fitted with a device that almost every new car has as an option - an automatic breaking system, which stops the car in case of imminent collision, based on a forward facing radar. I imagine it would reduce accidents in cities to near zero, and outside of them by an order of magnitude.

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Re:Forget self-driving car anxiety: In the early days human ... by makomk on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @10:35AM (#12901014)

NHTSA and the US car industry are planning on making that mandatory a few years down the line.

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