> You can probably drop the AI part altogether and have an always-running routine that takes over when collision is imminent based on relatively simple vector p

> You can probably drop the AI part altogether and have an always-running routine that takes over when collision is imminent based on relatively simple vector projection. Umm, yeah… Last week the collision avoidance on the truck decided a traffic sign was enough to sound the alarm and hit the brakes while going around a curve on a wet road in sub-freezing weather. Let’s just say that the pucker factor on that one was off the scale. Actually, the truck was fairly intent on killing me for that leg of the trip since there were a few winding downhill sections, I was at maximum weight and the stupid robo-transmission would randomly downshift instead of just easing down the hills without using the brakes — or randomly upshift into redline which will cause all the important bits inside the engine to come flying through the hood if you don’t catch it immediately. The thing that really gets my goat is the truck has the ability to be put into manual shift mode (specifically so it doesn’t do something stupid and kills a bus full of kids) but the company has it disabled for fuel economy reasons. I mean, “move fast and break things” doesn’t really work so well when you’re taking 80,000lbs down an 8% grade and this freightliner is a buggy POS on the best of days.