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he said 5 seconds to START braking
by frumper 4y ago
he said 5 seconds to START braking
- smaudet 4y agoI did not interpret their comment that way. That would be unreasonable, however their comment included mention of physical break distance, so I'm pretty certain they didn't mean actual human response time and instead how long it takes for a human to respond and slow the car, which is the metric of interest here. Even for a robot with millisecond response times, you will be breaking in the multiples of seconds, not instantaneously. Observation "reaction time" really is completely irrelevant here.
- frumper 4y ago> It takes humans up to 5 seconds to even start breaking in the presence of danger. That seems pretty clear. 5 total seconds is really reasonable. 5 seconds before you start is silly.