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This is a fundamentally uncharitable take. Protecting pedestrians with technology solely mounted on a car is basically impossible given the regulations on size
by wcunning 7y ago
This is a fundamentally uncharitable take. Protecting pedestrians with technology solely mounted on a car is basically impossible given the regulations on size of vehicle and such. I suppose you could make a vehicle sized squishy balloon tied to a motorcycle within the legal limits, but other than that, if you accept the general shape of a vehicle, the problem is really hard. Automatic braking is becoming regulatorily required in the nearer future and in general the ability of a car to stop quickly in more situations has improved. What else should a car company be doing in your opinion?
- asdff 7y agoIf I were a car company I'd lobby to improve infrastructure. Like you said, the technology does not exist to package everything on every vehicle without beefing up cars (the last thing we need in congested cities). Make jaywalking a huge fuck you ticket and put sensors and cameras over every crosswalk to detect everyone from the 7 foot basketball player to their chihuahua the minute they set foot on asphalt, and send that data to the car to make it physically impossible to go forward while the crosswalk is in use. Put up a gate on the sidewalk like a train crossing if you need to really manage people, maybe a short little fence along non crossable parts of the curb too to make it even more difficult to jaywalk (ideally doubling as bike lane protection).