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Re:When’s a pedestrian not a pedestrian? When it’s a decal by losteverything on Monday July 24, 2017 @10:29AM (#14838724)
Can you turn "off" that feature easily when you desire?
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Re:When’s a pedestrian not a pedestrian? When it’s a decal by sqeaky on Monday July 24, 2017 @11:34AM (#14839310)
Turning off safety features sounds like a bad idea. You can turn off the fusebox or circuit breaker in your house with a penny per circuit, but should you?
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Re:When’s a pedestrian not a pedestrian? When it’s a decal by tyingq on Monday July 24, 2017 @12:21PM (#14839763)
Specific reasoning for this, but there is some precedent for safety features that can be turned off by the end user. http://www.golfmk7.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=19...
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Re:When’s a pedestrian not a pedestrian? When it’s a decal by sqeaky on Monday July 24, 2017 @01:35PM (#14840679)
The 2nd airbag can be disabled in the event small children are riding in rear facing car seats. This prevents the airbag from opening and killing the child by smashing him/her into the passenger seat.

Children that small should be in the back. It is the workaround for a bad situation (perhaps you have to transport 1 more kid than you back seat can handle and you don't like this one so much). This is also well understood and studied already.

There are commonalities between this and that. But in this situation wouldn't turning off assisted driving in its entirety be better.

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Re:When’s a pedestrian not a pedestrian? When it’s a decal by losteverything on Monday July 24, 2017 @11:45AM (#14839417)
Having a car be able to suddenly and unexpectedly brake hard to a full stop is not always safe. As op said s/he didnt know why

Commuter and congested driving conditions by regular drivers assume a pattern of high speed. I do not want my car to have unconditional ability to brake when a computer thinks it should. Period.

Yet... We are now in phases of non-human controlled vehicles and it is a safety requirement to know what outcomes a computer can place on a car going at high speeds.

I would like to be able to create actions that cause my safety to increase against a computer assisted car. If decals (or any actions) make me safer because it makes a computer controlled car behave a certain way, then i will do it.

(my next book: how to defensively drive against self driving cars...hmm. )

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Re:When’s a pedestrian not a pedestrian? When it’s a decal by sqeaky on Monday July 24, 2017 @11:53AM (#14839482)
To torture my analogy, If a circuit breaker keeps breaking for unknown reasons the solution is not to use a penny (the equivalent of disabling the brakes). But rather to get professional to look at and fix the system.

If the self driving feature can be completely disabled, that would be much better than just disabling the brakes. Then drive it to someone to fix the assistive driving tech instead of trying to use jerry rigged assistive driving tech.

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Re:When’s a pedestrian not a pedestrian? When it’s a decal by yellowapple on Monday July 24, 2017 @12:01PM (#14839577)
If a blown fuse means that you have a significant chance of dying a rather gruesome death, then yeah, probably.
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Re:When’s a pedestrian not a pedestrian? When it’s a decal by sqeaky on Monday July 24, 2017 @12:57PM (#14840167)
Houses do burn down on occasion pennies are used as fuses.
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