Re:Ask HN: Best cars without too much digitalization?
by medvezhenok on Friday November 19, 2021 @09:52PM
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I recommend watching TeslaCam on YouTube - there are a few videos where the AI reacts faster than any human could, even a very attentive one.
It's by no means perfect (and the city beta is kind of a mess), but the highway safety bits are very functional and useful.
Re:Ask HN: Best cars without too much digitalization?
by necovek on Saturday November 20, 2021 @11:46PM
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FWIW, I've checked a few near-misses, and I can't find anything that looks super confidence inspiring. Sure, it might be better than those not paying attention at all, but while that's a win on average, it should beat the most attentive and the most capable drivers before we consider the tech top-notch.
Reaction time in all the car-braking studies is usually measured at 0.2-1s.
That's indeed the time a computer can use to their advantage, and maybe Teslas do, but many in-car systems today are not that fast, and esp not the one in my Volvo. All the things it does it seems to do them slightly later than I'd like to for a seamless, defensive drive.
It's all a matter of cost of per-unit hardware (processing power), development time and state of the art.
We'll get there, but we are not there today.
Automated system would have advantage there only where it can better "see" things (eg. LIDAR in pitch dark conditions, or maybe positioned at the roof of a vehicle and seeing over other vehicles that a driver can't).
My point was that for attentive drivers, "safety features" are more a nuisance than help in their own car (the worst you can do is have frustrated drivers behind the wheel). If that results in drivers disabling them, we are not better off at all: technology does not get developed and never matures enough not to be a nuisance. I keep them enabled, but I can understand that not everybody wants to go through these rough edges.