Re:Tesla's Autopilot driving on Silicon Valley’s most danger...
by Mister_X on Friday May 21, 2021 @04:04AM
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40 years ago I used to live off Summit Road, and a few years later off Laurel Road, so I rode my Honda 750 over SR17 every day into Silicon Valley, or Santa Cruz on the weekends for shopping.
And it's not that it's a dangerous highway per se, it's a combination of steep grades, decreasing radius corners, sharp blind downhill corners, steeply banked corners, narrow lanes with an accident causing concrete center divider.
But also, people who are in a hurry, and/or intimidated by Mtn Roads who then drive erratically (flatlanders).
At least once or twice a month I'd come across a recent accident, stop, run up the road and put out flares to warn oncoming traffic, even more in the busy summertime beach traffic.
And it's not that it's a dangerous highway per se, it's a combination of steep grades, decreasing radius corners, sharp blind downhill corners, steeply banked corners, narrow lanes with an accident causing concrete center divider.
But also, people who are in a hurry, and/or intimidated by Mtn Roads who then drive erratically (flatlanders).
At least once or twice a month I'd come across a recent accident, stop, run up the road and put out flares to warn oncoming traffic, even more in the busy summertime beach traffic.