Automatic emergency braking should become mandatory, feds say

Re:Automatic emergency braking should become mandatory, feds... by ChatGTP on Friday June 02, 2023 @09:35AM (#36164858)

I suspect the real issue is people using phones while driving, I know of at least one person who is dead from this. I rear ended a car when I was in my early 20s while on the phone, I se people driving trucks in narrow streets while on the phone in my area.

I don't like enforcing things like this as a band aid, it's fine to try improve a situation, but let's be honest, many people who are involved in these accidents are doing something with their phone.

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Re:Automatic emergency braking should become mandatory, feds... by ceejayoz on Friday June 02, 2023 @09:49AM (#36165032)

Sure. What we know, though, is "stop doing that" doesn't work. That's why aviation, highway safety, healthcare, tech postmortems, etc. have discovered that "please ask the human to stop doing human things" isn't the approach to take. Instead, we try to engineer away the opportunities for human error to kill people. (Quite successfully, in a lot of cases; as an example, aviation safety in the developed world is overall an incredible success story for regulators.)

People will continue to use their phones in their cars. That's a fact we have to accept.

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Re:Automatic emergency braking should become mandatory, feds... by peteradio on Friday June 02, 2023 @01:50PM (#36168431)

> That's a fact we have to accept.

You can go ahead and do that but I think people are justifiably pissed that we require invasive technology to coddle the idiots who can't be bothered.

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Re:Automatic emergency braking should become mandatory, feds... by ChatGTP on Saturday June 03, 2023 @01:17AM (#36173934)

I don't like the whole, "we'll protect you from yourself attitude".

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