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Slow enough is slow enough that you can see an obstruction soon enough to stop before driving into it. Either way, interconnections won't help you -- what if t

Slow enough is slow enough that you can see an obstruction soon enough to stop before driving into it. Either way, interconnections won't help you -- what if the car is crashed hard enough (or long enough for the battery to run down) that it's beacon is off/broadcasting wrong information? What if there's fallen tree or a pedestrian on the road? Generally, sensors (radar) can see through fog, and that's the most help you're going to get in a situation like this. Yes, maimings do matter. But they don't count towards "save [ing] countless lives".

ctrl-j 10y ago
> what if the car is crashed hard enough (or long enough for the battery to run down) that it's beacon is off/broadcasting wrong information? Doesn't that mean we're just back at the situation we're in today? The worse situation? > What if there's fallen tree or a pedestrian on the road? Also, not the situation at hand. Talking about the case where a car has crashed and is letting the cars behind it know that it has done so. It's like electronic flare deployment (or hazard lights.) Don't you think that a lot of lives and livelihoods could be saved if we had such functionality?