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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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