Posted on 09/12/2015 10:37:46 AM PDT by Red Badger
Edited on 09/12/2015 11:52:35 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Ten automakers have committed to the government and a private safety group that they will include automatic emergency braking in all new cars, a step transportation officials say could significantly reduce traffic deaths and injuries.
But safety advocates were swift to criticize the effort as a backroom deal that allows automakers to avoid the possibility that the Transportation Department will impose a legal requirement for inclusion of the braking systems in cars and set binding standards for the technology.
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I see an underground industry for “automatic braking re-adjustors.”
I don’t like this at all.
Not one bit.
Imagine driving down the road at 50 mph and suddenly, unexpectedly, your car’s computer suddenly hits the brakes for no obvious reason.............................
Triggered remotely by “authorities?
They’ll make it a felony to tamper with the ‘automatic’ braking systems and you’ll get 10 years in prison for doing it or having it done.....................
Yes, and possibly ‘hackers’ as well...........................
How about cellphone detectors and alchohol/drug sniffers being installed in new vehicles?
Those two items alone would negate most of the other nanny state safety devices on vehicles.
No matter what the government (and the automaker lobbyists who advocate this crap), does, they just will not be able to keep up with the geniuses who develop better idiots.
Because the best driving maneuver in that situation is to pull into another lane or even the shoulder, and you need an alert driver for that. Besides, with the average vehicle now 11 years old and at least half the population growing poorer and less likely to be able to afford a capability that's going to add $thousands for a feature that may be useful once per year at most, it's going to take decades to clear those cars having a different driving strategy than automatic braking. Utopianism rampant.
I decided after the tire presssure monitors and back-up cameras I would never buy another new car.
Ef that. I just got an 83 pickup. I love it.
Get an older vehicle, and keep it in good condition. They (the Government, Google, etc) want to make us all part of "skynet".
They want total control over where we go and what we do.
They say Freedom loves cars, but Fascists love trains. The reason Fascists love trains is because they get to decide where people go, when they leave, when they arrive, and whether or not they even want to transport them.
Now they are going to try to apply their Fascist instincts to cars.
The car ahead of you has the brakes applied by their gov’t computer. Your car and 200 million others do not have this so you try to slam your brakes on to avoid hitting the car and the guy behind has to slam their brakes on and so forth.
More traffic accidents and more injuries. Remember the red light cameras which caused more accidents. Someone is paying off these people to make these rulings.
A crime for the garage maybe.
Just ask your mechanic how to switch it off, maybe as easy as disengaging the flywheel blade brake on your lawnmower.
It’s just another example of a federal do-nothing agency trying to justify its existence by making our lives more expensive, frustrating, onerous and probably dangerous.
But we’re stuck because the Constitution gives the federal government the power to **** with us (pursuant to whatever clause it is they decide to tell the SCOTUS) because it is a living, breathing instrument dontchaknow, and the GOP Congress is powerless—they’d love to help, they really would—but there are Redbox DVDs to take back, inspiring 9-11 e-mails to send to constituents, parties to attend and there’s always Obama and ValJar Bink’s butts to kiss and so forth and so on.
So we’re just out of luck. Suck it up, pay for the auto-brake and pay to have it maintained, and disengage it.
(I just remembered, it’s time to go flush my `lo-flow’ toilet for the third time ...)
“Automatic emergency braking includes a range of systems designed to address the large number of crashes, especially rear-end crashes, in which drivers do not apply the brakes or fail to apply sufficient braking power to avoid or mitigate a crash.”
Part of the system must turn off your smart phone. More idiot proofing for automobiles.
I’ve had an ABS sensor go bad before, which caused the vehicle to be almost impossible to bring to a complete stop with the brake pedal; I had to pull the parking brake and skid to a stop, then had it towed for repair. I can envision something similar with automatic braking.
I see what you did there;)
Get an older vehicle, and keep it in good condition. —
Calif is ahead of you on that one. They have proposed higher, and escalating, fees on older cars.
One of the ABS sensors on my 2001 Highland was going bad. Couldn’t fix it. It would apply the ABS to one wheel, as I came to a stop. I pulled the fuse for the ABS. Now it drives and brakes like all the cars I drove since 1962. Works fine, and I now have control of my braking system. I hate ABS brakes!
Is 50 mph now mandated by the powers that be as the top legal speed? So you are motoring along with a string of cars behind you when the vehicle leading the pack over shoots his turn off and hits his brakes. What happens next?
Does the auto brake system prevent the driver from initiating an emergency stop? Does the auto brake system limit your car (and all the others in line) to a max of 50mph? Does the system regulate the vehicle to vehicle distance to one car length per 10 mph?
I can easily foresee a chain reaction crash for any number of system failure modes. I think I'm going to start looking for a good used car ASAP!
Regards,
GtG
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