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]
A small animal runs across the road in front of your car, the car automatically slams on the brakes, and the older car behind you rear ends you.
But yet this feature makes driving safer.
Right.
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. ==
Yep. And the computer has better reflexes than you, = CRASH.
Govt soln #1: Make everyone retrofit automatic braking.
Govt Soln #2: Make computer controlled cars flash their brake lights before actually applying brakes, to alert following cars. This soln is actually the best, as it uses the application of Govt logic.
Govt Soln #3:
After retrofit, all brake computers are linked to the net, which is connected to Govt HQ for department of braking.
When a computer wants to implement braking, it contacts the HQ, which issues permission to brake, and commands all following cars to brake also. It then alerts obama care to expect you, and summons ambulances (it knows how many because it is tracking all cars).
If the ABS systems fails, the vehicle returns to a dynamic system just like all cars use to be prior to ABS. Should not have caused any problems for you.
The ABS kept going off and refused to allow the vehicle to come to a complete stop. 2000 Toyota Tacoma. Great vehicle, should have kept it, that was the only issue I ever had with it. Scary one, though.
If you really want to do something to reduce rear end collisions which are on the upswing then go after cell phones.
Caitlyn Jenner approves!..............
Try to imagine a movie chase scene with these cars!
Also the gov’t can apply all the brakes of cars at once when a gov’t motorcade comes by like obama or Jon Corzine (zipping by at 100mph and crashed) so the minions do not interfere with the elites.
I may be a minority here, but folks who have raised (and/or are raising) teenage drivers will appreciate such automatic emergency braking capability incorporated into their cars...assuming, of course, they are properly designed, have strong security and have robustness and fail-safe attributes built in.
It would be great if Apple is working on this as a possible adjunct to CarPlay. I say Apple because of the attention they pay to quality and security.
What an unbelievably BAD IDEA!
Are they going to start making giant spring loaded safety crash mattresses that mount on the rear bumpers too so when the system automatically stops the car for no reason at all on a freeway so that the car that plows into the back of the “safe car” won’t be destroyed and the driver killed? Are they going to mandate that ALL automobiles without this amazingingly stupid idea will have to have giant front bumper safety mattresses too?
Trust me, technical quirks will kill people...and government mandates to build extra safety devices will certainly enrich those who have paid their respective elected official to introduce and support a new “safety” law that we did not need in the first place.
Way back in the early 80’s or late 70’s (I can’t remember exactly when) I wrote a letter to the editor of the Corpus Christi Caller Times about my feelings of the proposal of a law that would mandate the wearing of seat belts in new vehicles and the retrofit of such in older vehicles.
My point was that if a person want to wear one, he would. If not he wouldn’t. Then I delved into the fact that incrementalism would surely follow to appease the Chamber of Commerce and the manufactures that exist solely upon the dictated requirements of government safety rules.
Sure enough, we went from front seat belts, to rear seat belts, to things that look like some type of truss that straps you into the seat like a Thanksgiving turkey, to front seat baby carriers, to new carriers that face the baby backwards, to backseat carriers, to the physical size and age of children allowed to sit in the back seat, and on an on and on....
It never stops. Once started, the downhill roll, the safety snowball simply grows and grows and grows......like any (and all) government rules or regulations.
It’s time to stop it all and let people be responsible for their own actions and for their failures...for the government can’t change any of that and have not.
Yeah. We have an “Al Gore” toilet (FIL used to call it that.) It takes two or three flushes to flush a BM.
"I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help!"..................
-—Triggered remotely by “authorities?-—
Might be a good idea though for a school zone to have the brakes applied automatically.
Having seen what goes wrong with some of the other “required” systems,I think you could foresee the possible problems with this one & maybe multiply it a few times.
That could happen now if your car gets hacked.
10 car companies have already agreed. New cars which are already way too expensive will be even more so to purchase and also to get repaired. Meanwhile the bureaucrats in charge will be given free cars at our expense... again.
http://news.slashdot.org/story/15/09/11/2233201/10-major-automakers-agree-to-include-automatic-emergency-braking-on-new-vehicles
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