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A comment on Honda's now selling the first production car with level 3 self-driving. Parent comment

Re:Honda's now selling the first production car with level 3... by spullara on Friday March 05, 2021 @01:59AM (#26353709)
Autopilot saves lives even in current state.
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Re:Honda's now selling the first production car with level 3... by kaba0 on Friday March 05, 2021 @02:31AM (#26353902)
Based on what?

What could save lives is intelligent automatic breaking - because that is something we are currently capable of. Humans as a species is terrible at paying attention to boring tasks and quickly react - so these gimmick autopilot takes are dangerous if anything.

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Re:Honda's now selling the first production car with level 3... by brabel on Friday March 05, 2021 @02:46AM (#26354002)
Most standard cars already come with emergency automatic breaking.
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Re:Honda's now selling the first production car with level 3... by please-reread on Friday March 05, 2021 @05:35AM (#26355264)
Is that so? Now if they also could brake...
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Re:Honda's now selling the first production car with level 3... by NavinF on Friday March 05, 2021 @03:01AM (#26354124)
That's exactly what self driving cars do, silly.
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Re:Honda's now selling the first production car with level 3... by kaba0 on Friday March 05, 2021 @03:26AM (#26354322)
They do it as well on top of some other non-safe features. Less is sometimes more. Breaking when a pedestrian steps before us in sub-human reaction time is great - it doesn’t have to be combined with full self driving, which is simply really far away from now.
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Re:Honda's now selling the first production car with level 3... by spullara on Friday March 05, 2021 @02:37AM (#26353938)
It does that as well. Have you ever driven one?
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