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It's not supposed to be for routine use. The idea is that if the car gets into a situation where stability is lost it will know how to handle it. As an example
by Digit-Al 7y ago
It's not supposed to be for routine use. The idea is that if the car gets into a situation where stability is lost it will know how to handle it.
As an example, imagine an autonomous car is going around a bend and hits a large patch of black ice and goes into a slide. Current systems will struggle to handle the car and it could result in a crash. With this knowledge added the car will know how to handle slides and will recover easily.
Another example (given in the article) is if a person darts out into the path of the car it can perform a sharp turn and gracefully handle manoeuvring around them without losing control using this knowledge.
- HeWhoLurksLate 7y agoThis is exactly right. Recently, I drove a big 4WD SUV at about 5 mph onto ice in the middle of a 90 degree turn and lost traction in the front, and instead of doing anything helpful, the system decided the thing to do was engage the parking brake, which instead of stopping the vehicle put it into a slide, and almost got damaged because of it- when the vehicle stopped, it was less than half an inch away from a big transformer box in the front and less than 5 inches away from a concrete pole on the passenger's side. I think I honestly could have done better without traction control than the stupid stutter-stutter click slide that came with it in that situation.