Re:Web Hackers vs. the Auto Industry
by jacquesm on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @02:49AM
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In my case a fairly new C-class MB that decided that posts on bridges are in front of the car and not to the side and a large advertising board in a corner was about to be hit. In both of those cases the car turned what was a perfectly safe ride into instant near accident and if not for many years of experience I'm pretty sure the first would have resulted in a major crash. I got rid of the car after the second one.
Automatic emergency braking is probably great if all you do is highway traffic and stop-and-go but it really sucks that you can't disable it and that it isn't able to distinguish between safe and unsafe to a degree that it will turn a safe situation into an unsafe one all by itself. At that point in time a safety feature becomes a risk in itself. Possibly the statistics are still in favor of the solution but I'd rather take my chances.
Automatic emergency braking is probably great if all you do is highway traffic and stop-and-go but it really sucks that you can't disable it and that it isn't able to distinguish between safe and unsafe to a degree that it will turn a safe situation into an unsafe one all by itself. At that point in time a safety feature becomes a risk in itself. Possibly the statistics are still in favor of the solution but I'd rather take my chances.