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Re:When’s a pedestrian not a pedestrian? When it’s a decal by jsight on Monday July 24, 2017 @10:47AM (#14838839)
This is my biggest worry with the current features, actually. A lot of people seem overly concerned about distracted drivers overlooking things and getting into rear end collisions that the car overlooks.

I'm more worried about false positives causing unexpected hard braking and leading to an increase in high-speed rear-end collisions on the highways. These are really uncommon now, but could increase if false positives are common.

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Re:When’s a pedestrian not a pedestrian? When it’s a decal by sqeaky on Monday July 24, 2017 @11:33AM (#14839291)
Even if that does happen I think we would see corresponding decrease in head-on, T-bone and other more devastating collisions.

Its like non-corrupt red light cameras, they do reduce red light running and do increase the number of accidents. They reduce fatal accidents but increase nearly harmless rear-end collisions. So property damage and loss of life are reduce, but speeders and tailergaters get the majority in my town because there are no pedestrians and no one thinks they will be the ones to cause an accident.

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