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Your point about safety raises an idea: Why not do the inverse? Your driver assist tells the car how fast it can drive (GPS, signage), break pedal as well as a
by m_mueller 8y ago
Your point about safety raises an idea: Why not do the inverse? Your driver assist tells the car how fast it can drive (GPS, signage), break pedal as well as a configurable level of assistance tells it how much to stop. Steering is still mine, and I won't give it up until full autonomous cars with zero driver responsibility are mass produceable.
- fastball 8y agoBecause I want to drive over the speed limit.
- m_mueller 8y agoI'm not saying take away the gas pedal - it could still be there as a 'boost' pedal, intended for overtaking for example.
- fastball 8y agoMy car already does this with radar-informed cruise control, except it doesn't force a certain speed on the driver. You just set it like normal cruise control.
- m_mueller 8y agoBut doesn't cruise-control ususally disengage when you hit the breaks? This is only half the idea of single-pedal driving on the break pedal.
- CydeWeys 8y agoThere's a lot more to how fast you can drive than GPS and signage. There's also weather, road conditions, if there's parked cars hurting visibility along the road, whether there's pedestrians near the edge of the road (especially children who might dart out quickly), etc. You have to slow down to turn, too. I can't imagine a situation in which you could let speed be outside the driver's control entirely.
- m_mueller 8y agoYes, therefore you either a) break yourself on turns, pedestrians waiting, even red light etc. or b) choose to let driver assist take over some of these tasks from you the whole idea is that instead of doing one-pedal driving on the accelerator it's safer to do one-pedal on the break.