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The story doesn't say cars left the road by swerving off the side. I think they left it vertically because it was shaped like a jump and they were just driving
by exporectomy 6y ago
The story doesn't say cars left the road by swerving off the side. I think they left it vertically because it was shaped like a jump and they were just driving too fast. It also doesn't say automatic braking/obstacle avoidance caused them to leave the road. Nor does it say the road was altered because of automatic anything.
This looks like a massive reading comprehension problem that people here are suffering from. Journalists are experts in being pedantically correct in all their facts but leaving the careless reader with a completely wrong idea of what happened.
- rasz 6y agoWhat does this: >Cars have come off the road trying to cross a cattle grid after sensors mistook it for a wall and slammed on the brakes. mean according to you?
- exporectomy 6y agoWow. I actually didn't see that, even after re-reading it looking specifically for it. I had to ctrl-F to find it. It's in bold under the picture so I probably mistook it for general non-article clutter and ignored it. Reading comprehension problem here too! It does use that causality avoidance word "after". That's technically honest because the author only knows the sequence of events, not the causality, but it also means we only know that too. In an extreme case, it might not even be the same cars that mistook it for a wall as the ones that came off the road, but it also might not be the autonomy that caused them to come off the road, but the driver's actions in response to the braking.