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> Better than nothing, but I'm surprised cars are still made without automatic braking. In the EU, at least, since May 2022, all new cars do have automatic eme
by closewith 3y ago
> Better than nothing, but I'm surprised cars are still made without automatic braking.
In the EU, at least, since May 2022, all new cars do have automatic emergency braking, along with intelligent speed assistance; alcohol interlock installation facilitation; driver drowsiness and attention warning; advanced driver distraction warning; emergency stop signal; reversing detection; and event data recorder (“black box”).
Other features like eCall – a built-in automated emergency call for assistance in a road accident – have been mandatory since March 2018.
- nightski 3y agoSigh, EU cares about your privacy until it doesn't. These are data collection and monitoring nightmares. Big brother here we come.
- closewith 3y agoWhile I broadly agree with you, at least eCall contacts (via voice and data) the local State 112 emergency services and only self-activates in the case of a collision. That's far better than the situation in the US, where private services like Tesla, GM with OnStar, or Ford with "Sync with Emergency Assistance", which have no limits on data collection.
- masklinn 3y ago> along with intelligent speed assistance Shame. I've never had it work really reliably in any car, it's a feel good but mostly shit. Even more so when it's not even hooked into cruise (many cars will provide a shortcut to copy the sign's speed into the cruise or speed limiter, but far from all of them).
- closewith 3y agoYeah, the systems I've used are dire.