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by burkaman 11y ago
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The source says "light steering inputs if the system senses the vehicle is about to veer off the road." So it sounds like if you're full-on aiming for the ditch it won't really affect you.
I hope no car will ever unexpectedly turn on autopilot in the middle of driving. Either eliminate human control entirely, or let the human control it until they decide not to.
- mdorazio 11y agoDo you consider automatic braking part of autopilot? Several cars already do this if they think you're going to hit something in front of you at low speed.
- gambiting 11y agoIf you are actually pressing the throttle the car will chime several warnings but won't stop you - any car that I know of that has the automatic collision avoidance feature only brakes for you if the foot is off the throttle.
- mdorazio 11y agoI don't think that's accurate, at least on the luxury cars where I've seen it implemented. Take a look at this list [1]. In many cases you could overpower the automatic braking by applying more throttle, but the brakes will definitely apply automatically to some degree if they think you're going to hit something. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collision_avoidance_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collision_avoidance_system
- gambiting 11y agoHmmmm yeah, I knew you could definitely do that in Nissans, and wiki offers an explanation: "it alerts the driver using both a screen display and sound, then generates a force that pushes the accelerator pedal up" - so I guess it's like you said, you can just press the throttle harder and ignore the warning if you really know what you are doing.