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Re:The View from the Front Seat of the Google Self-Driving C... by thrownaway2424 on Friday July 17, 2015 @01:11PM (#9903753)
That's the total opposite of what the car should do if it knows it's going to be rear ended. It should lock the brakes and tension the seat belts.
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Re:The View from the Front Seat of the Google Self-Driving C... by NathanKP on Friday July 17, 2015 @01:17PM (#9903780)
It depends on how fast the incoming car is travelling. If you are about to be rear ended by someone traveling 60 miles an hour (happens sometimes in rural areas where people don't pay attention and are traveling highway speeds on narrow two lane roads), then it would actually be safer to accelerate the car to 30mph and crash into the person in front of you so that it is a 30mph impact to front and 30mph impact to rear rather than a massive 60mph impact to the rear of the car.
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Re:The View from the Front Seat of the Google Self-Driving C... by thrownaway2424 on Friday July 17, 2015 @01:59PM (#9904136)
You're demonstrating perfectly the urgent need for self-driving cars.
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