Should make rush hour a little better, of course I’ll be retired before then.
The Trial Lawyers will be salivating waiting for the first system failure.
What could possibly go wrong?
I personally think this is good news. Anyone who has raised teenagers through their initial years of driving likely wish this had been available earlier.
This is bad news for ambulance chasing lawyers.
So when someone cuts in front of you, the system brakes automatically and causes the person behind to run into you. This should be a boon to staged accident scams.
My new Honda Pilot (with sensing) has this.
It’s excellent.
Which will raise the price of your average car by hundreds if not thousands while it will be an incentive on auto insurance, and after many accidents and deaths due to this idiocy will be phased out in favor of the most efficient mode of transportation - the bicycle ...
Why not? Autonomous voting is in about 40+% effect in 2016.
I can hardly wait for the wild chase scenes in movies. Get ready for edge of your seat tension with the season’s hottest blockbuster, “Riding the Brakes.”
Screenwriters thinking of having their heroes bust out of the compound or prison by ramming the SUV through the gates had better get crackin on alternatives.
Car accidents are a leading cause of death (#12 according to Wikipedia).
Also, even minor accidents cause very expensive repairs which raise insurance rates.
I would hope that this will eventually lead to reductions in insurance rates.
Wanna bet it puts on the brakes for a newspaper blowing in the wind, a gust of dust, and a squirrel? (I would not brake for the paper and the dust. I would brake for the squirrel if there’s no one right behind me)
I had a van with an automatic braking system. When I slammed on the brake to avoid a car that pulled out in front of me, the automatic braking system started pumping the brake. I hit the car (I was going slow, so it was not bad) thanks to that automatic “assistance” and I sold the van immediately.
Oh f*cking great. I just hope it works better than the f’n tire pressure sensor equipment on my pickup truck. Bought it in Sept of 2015 and had it back to the dealer 3 times and they have yet to get the thing to work for more than 2 weeks. And all because a bunch of idiots were too damn lazy to check their tire pressures once in a while and their tires failed and caused their SUV’s to roll over.
Nope, no way-I’ll keep my old 1995 4x4 that has none of that crap-it does have cruise control, but I’ve never used it. On these curvy, hilly country roads-and everywhere else-I trust my judgment-not that of an inanimate object-anyone who owns a computer knows that electronics can fail at the worst possible times...
This sounds like an easy steal for carjackers-pull in front of a vehicle you want, slam on brakes, run back to the other vehicle, throw out the driver, take their vehicle and go...
It also sounds like a new cash cow for ambulance chasing attorneys-sue, sue, sue...