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Re:Automatic emergency braking should become mandatory, feds... by solfox on Thursday June 01, 2023 @08:46PM (#36159423)
My MB van also has similar serious issues with buggy auto-braking. Once, while driving head-on into a bright sun, it decided it was time to apply full brakes while driving highway speeds on a busy highway, in a vehicle with a GVWR of around 9,500 lbs. That wasn't fun and could have easily caused an accident involving multiple cars.

My Tesla, which is probably the leader here, regularly makes mistakes - though never really to the point of forcing braking. Often it will warn me on my narrow street of objects like parked cars it thinks I will hit, but it seems a little more polished than MB.

If regulators want to force this on all car manufacturers, they really need to also mandate certain tests and features - plus OTA updates to recall any bugs... My guess is that most car makers just don't have the workforce to develop these features, so forcing them to roll them out will mean even worse bugs!

Re:Automatic emergency braking should become mandatory, feds... by midoridensha on Thursday June 01, 2023 @09:37PM (#36159815)
>they really need to also mandate certain tests and features - plus OTA updates to recall any bugs

OTA updates for braking systems will result in hackers wreaking havoc. The security implications of this are enormous; it's like putting your country's nuclear reactors on the internet.

Updates should only be done in-person at the dealership, for free.

Re:Automatic emergency braking should become mandatory, feds... by HPsquared on Friday June 02, 2023 @06:18AM (#36163310)
They would need to mandate certain security requirements then.

So the rule needs a rule to fix it, which needs another rule to fix that, and so on.