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Re:Uber Self-Driving Car That Struck Pedestrian Wasn’t Set t... by majormajor on Thursday May 24, 2018 @01:25PM (#17146244)
> If you’ve ever done significant mileage in a car with an emergency braking system you probably have experienced seemingly random braking events. The systems favor false positives over false negatives.

This is not my experience with VW's 2016-model-year system.

Soemtimes it stops a second or two before I would've. I haven't had any false positives, though.

Re:Uber Self-Driving Car That Struck Pedestrian Wasn’t Set t... by sandos on Friday May 25, 2018 @03:29AM (#17151397)
Same here in our 2016 wv, we had a beep once for a warning in an intersection with traffic nearby, but never a false positive.