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How often do your seatbelt warning give out false positives? How high false rate would people accept before they removed/rigged the device? One major reason wh
by belorn 4y ago
How often do your seatbelt warning give out false positives? How high false rate would people accept before they removed/rigged the device?
One major reason why ignition locks that uses breathalyzers has failed to gain popularity is false positives. Police always do a blood test after a positive breath test, because those breathalyzers have know faults when it comes to a number of substances, including bread, fruit, chewing gum, vanilla extract, vinegar and energy drinks...
- harg 4y ago> How often do your seatbelt warning give out false positives? Never, in any car I’ve ever been in, have I seen a false positive seatbelt warning.
- sneak 4y agoThis happens to me all the time when I put a backpack with 3 computers in it on my passenger seat.
- tgsovlerkhgsel 4y agoExactly, that's his point: Those systems are tolerated because they don't have false positives.
- AmericanChopper 4y agoI’ve seen it many times. Every time I put a heavy object on a seat without plugging the seatbelts in.
- belorn 4y agoNow imagine this happening, but rather than being still at the car park you are on the highway and the situation is requiring a lot of concentration, and you can't just plug in the seatbelt to fix it.
- AmericanChopper 4y agoYou don’t need to convince me. I’m very much against all these stupid car features that you’re not allowed to control. Breaking the stop start motor in my car was tedious enough, but a lot of these new features can’t be defeated so easily.
- marklubi 4y agoIn my BMW, I can trigger a false positive by plugging my iPad or iPhone into the car's USB charging port, and setting it on the passenger seat.
- contravariant 4y agoIn my experience 1 instance of a false positive is enough to get people to circumvent the system (going by how the seatbelts in our current car are always plugged in, with or without passengers, to avoid random warnings). Turns out it's quite annoying (and possibly dangerous) to drive with random sudden beeping.
- trashcan 4y agoWhen I put my laptop or groceries in the passenger seat I frequently have to buckle them in after the car starts beeping. Really annoying!