Re:Honda's now selling the first production car with level 3...
by kwhitefoot on Friday March 05, 2021 @10:20AM
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> everyone talks about the car that runs into a truck or fire-engine.
Not to mention that plenty of non-self driving cars run into stationary vehicles on both motorways and ordinary roads.
A fireman I spoke to says it happens all the time and that the fire engine is parked upstream of the incident that they are dealing with so that errant vehicles run into it rather than the fire crew.
It is a matter of lively debate in the UK right now with regard to 'Smart Motorways' which have no hard shoulder, several people have been killed in collisions with stationary vehicles.
In fact even on motorways with hard shoulders a number of people have died because they stopped on the hard shoulder because of a breakdown and another vehicle strayed onto the hard shoulder and rear ended them at 70 mph.
Not to mention that plenty of non-self driving cars run into stationary vehicles on both motorways and ordinary roads.
A fireman I spoke to says it happens all the time and that the fire engine is parked upstream of the incident that they are dealing with so that errant vehicles run into it rather than the fire crew.
It is a matter of lively debate in the UK right now with regard to 'Smart Motorways' which have no hard shoulder, several people have been killed in collisions with stationary vehicles.
In fact even on motorways with hard shoulders a number of people have died because they stopped on the hard shoulder because of a breakdown and another vehicle strayed onto the hard shoulder and rear ended them at 70 mph.