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I worry that if it's buggy enough to get false negatives (not braking when it should) then it might also get false positives (slamming on the brakes when it sho
by hugh3 17y ago
I worry that if it's buggy enough to get false negatives (not braking when it should) then it might also get false positives (slamming on the brakes when it shouldn't).
Maybe one day I'll have a car with a system like this, but I'd want to see it get quite a few years' real-world testing before I'd trust it to slam on my brakes whenever it felt like it.
- chc 17y agoThat's illogical. We could design a system that works exactly like brakes do now — never engaging on their own — and it would get an enormous number of false negatives. By your logic, it probably gets a lot of false positives too. In general, false negatives aren't a sign that the system is buggy, but that a heuristic is tuned to avoid false positives. Also, this wasn't a false negative — the system wasn't turned on in the first place.