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Re:$8k Suzuki from India Received a 5-Star Crash Test Rating by swiftcoder on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @03:16AM (#42181056)
20ms isn't all that long a window over which to filter all that sensor data and determine that you are actually in a crash (and didn't just take a speed bump a little too fast).

False-positive airbag deployments are not viewed very positively by the affected user (even if its strictly better than a single false negative)

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Re:$8k Suzuki from India Received a 5-Star Crash Test Rating by prennert on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @07:12AM (#42182586)
A false positive is essentially a false negative (the airbag cannot inflate twice), plus the consequences of knocking the drivers hands off the steering wheel, obscuring their sight and causing a shock that will in most cases cause an accident.

So a false positive seems strictly worse than a false negative to me.

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Re:$8k Suzuki from India Received a 5-Star Crash Test Rating by swiftcoder on Wednesday November 20, 2024 @02:43AM (#42191612)
Yes, I guess at speed that is likely the case. It's more the 5-mile-an-hour fender-bender that tends annoy the user when it harmlessly/needlessly deploys the airbags
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