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“If the car crashes while Drive Pilot is operating, that's Mercedes' problem, not yours.” It’s still my problem if I’m inside the car whilst it crashes.
by 35mm 5y ago
“If the car crashes while Drive Pilot is operating, that's Mercedes' problem, not yours.”
It’s still my problem if I’m inside the car whilst it crashes.
- freemint 5y agoNot much at below 60 km/h max.
- blackbrokkoli 5y agoDeadly crashes are not uncommon on half that speed, and risk does not grow linearly.
- sdze 5y agoFor sure not in a S-Class or EQS.
- julius_deane 5y agoseems you're both thinking in absolutes
- nradov 5y agoCrashes at 30 km/h will kill cyclists and pedestrians outside the car. The occupants of modern Mercedes-Benz cars will survive 100% of the time.
- bsza 5y agoMy mom is a doctor and once was called to the site of a frontal crash that happened at 100 km/h (two cars moving at 50). Only to examine the bodies, there was no one left to save.
- FartyMcFarter 5y agoThis system doesn't support two-way roads though, so a frontal collision is unlikely.
- 0cVlTeIATBs 5y agoMythbusters found that two cars colliding at 50mph is not equivalent to one car hitting a brick wall at 100mph. It resembles one car hitting a brick wall at 50mph.
- halfstar91 5y agoWas this work published and peer reviewed?
- syrrim 5y agoIt makes sense as well. If we assume each car has the same mass, and picture the collision from the side, it would appear as if each car was hitting an invisible brick wall that separated them. Or, picture hitting a stationary car while driving 100km/h (perhaps on some frictionless surface) - afterwards, both cars would be sliding at 50km/h.
- mwint 5y agoThink of it this way: the two cars (if they’re the same weight) create a virtual immovable object at the impact point. “Brick wall” is doing a lot of work there - note that it’s not the same as hitting a stationary car at 50mph, that car would move. We rarely encounter actual immovable objects on or near the road, which is why a 50+50 head-on is more violent than a 50+0 collision into something softer.
- judge2020 5y ago
- monkeydust 5y agoAnd that's exactly what I imagine they are factoring into their risk analysis when working out their potential liabilities.
- DrBazza 5y ago“If the car crashes while Drive Pilot is operating, that's Mercedes' problem, not yours.” As long-time grey-beard MB owner, and, honestly, it's not just them, the sheer amount of noise and distractions in modern cockpits is absurd now. By this I mean, reversing sensors, slow-forward speed sensors, massive LCD screen (which may or may not be touchscreen) positioned at windscreen level, the right-hand "-ometer" that's configurable, a dial, a trackpad, a steering wheel with at least four buttons, and two 'joystick' things. And 3 instrument clusters on stalks. Heating buttons, fan, windscreen control, radio button, all down the bottom of the centre console where I have to take my eyes off the road. It's a shit show. My point? My current MB has never been so distracting to drive where I have to take my eyes off the road for a second to hit the demister button. Versus a car from the 1990s - no centre-LCD so the heater/demister buttons were in your peripheral vision. No touchscreen - regular buttons with tactile feed back that even had "braille like" raised paint so you could figure out where your hand was without taking your eye off the road. Don't even get me started on trying to use the radio or equaliser. I hope, I really do, that autonomous driving works and reduces crashes, but I'm astonished there hasn't been a noticeable uptick in crashes based on just what I've written. From the article, this is yet another button on the steering wheel. Probably because they've run out of dashboard space for all the other buttons. Auto-stop, car alarm off, assistance, sport mode, are at least 4 buttons I never use. Where's the Jony Ive for car cockpits?
- Infinitesimus 5y ago> Where's the Jony Ive for car cockpits? That's the single touchscreen world of the Model 3 and Y :)