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Can you turn "off" that feature easily when you desire?

sqeaky 9y ago
Turning off safety features sounds like a bad idea. You can turn off the fusebox or circuit breaker in your house with a penny per circuit, but should you?
- losteverything 9y ago
  Having a car be able to suddenly and unexpectedly brake hard to a full stop is not always safe. As op said s/he didnt know why Commuter and congested driving conditions by regular drivers assume a pattern of high speed. I do not want my car to have unconditional ability to brake when a computer thinks it should. Period. Yet... We are now in phases of non-human controlled vehicles and it is a safety requirement to know what outcomes a computer can place on a car going at high speeds. I would like to be able to create actions that cause my safety to increase against a computer assisted car. If decals (or any actions) make me safer because it makes a computer controlled car behave a certain way, then i will do it. (my next book: how to defensively drive against self driving cars...hmm. )
  - sqeaky 9y ago
    To torture my analogy, If a circuit breaker keeps breaking for unknown reasons the solution is not to use a penny (the equivalent of disabling the brakes). But rather to get professional to look at and fix the system. If the self driving feature can be completely disabled, that would be much better than just disabling the brakes. Then drive it to someone to fix the assistive driving tech instead of trying to use jerry rigged assistive driving tech.
- yellowapple 9y ago
  If a blown fuse means that you have a significant chance of dying a rather gruesome death, then yeah, probably.
  - sqeaky 9y ago
    Houses do burn down on occasion pennies are used as fuses.
- tyingq 9y ago
  Specific reasoning for this, but there is some precedent for safety features that can be turned off by the end user. http://www.golfmk7.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1942&d=1403263212 http://www.golfmk7.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=19...
  - sqeaky 9y ago
    The 2nd airbag can be disabled in the event small children are riding in rear facing car seats. This prevents the airbag from opening and killing the child by smashing him/her into the passenger seat. Children that small should be in the back. It is the workaround for a bad situation (perhaps you have to transport 1 more kid than you back seat can handle and you don't like this one so much). This is also well understood and studied already. There are commonalities between this and that. But in this situation wouldn't turning off assisted driving in its entirety be better.

Turning off safety features sounds like a bad idea. You can turn off the fusebox or circuit breaker in your house with a penny per circuit, but should you?

losteverything 9y ago
Having a car be able to suddenly and unexpectedly brake hard to a full stop is not always safe. As op said s/he didnt know why Commuter and congested driving conditions by regular drivers assume a pattern of high speed. I do not want my car to have unconditional ability to brake when a computer thinks it should. Period. Yet... We are now in phases of non-human controlled vehicles and it is a safety requirement to know what outcomes a computer can place on a car going at high speeds. I would like to be able to create actions that cause my safety to increase against a computer assisted car. If decals (or any actions) make me safer because it makes a computer controlled car behave a certain way, then i will do it. (my next book: how to defensively drive against self driving cars...hmm. )
- sqeaky 9y ago
  To torture my analogy, If a circuit breaker keeps breaking for unknown reasons the solution is not to use a penny (the equivalent of disabling the brakes). But rather to get professional to look at and fix the system. If the self driving feature can be completely disabled, that would be much better than just disabling the brakes. Then drive it to someone to fix the assistive driving tech instead of trying to use jerry rigged assistive driving tech.
yellowapple 9y ago
If a blown fuse means that you have a significant chance of dying a rather gruesome death, then yeah, probably.
- sqeaky 9y ago
  Houses do burn down on occasion pennies are used as fuses.
tyingq 9y ago
Specific reasoning for this, but there is some precedent for safety features that can be turned off by the end user. http://www.golfmk7.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1942&d=1403263212 http://www.golfmk7.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=19...
- sqeaky 9y ago
  The 2nd airbag can be disabled in the event small children are riding in rear facing car seats. This prevents the airbag from opening and killing the child by smashing him/her into the passenger seat. Children that small should be in the back. It is the workaround for a bad situation (perhaps you have to transport 1 more kid than you back seat can handle and you don't like this one so much). This is also well understood and studied already. There are commonalities between this and that. But in this situation wouldn't turning off assisted driving in its entirety be better.