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Why are people commenting on Hacker News so negative? This is a progressive, good idea. It will save 24,000 injuries a year. I think if Hacker News was aroun
by matthewfelgate 2y ago
Why are people commenting on Hacker News so negative?
This is a progressive, good idea.
It will save 24,000 injuries a year.
I think if Hacker News was around when seat-belts were invented there would be some looney tunes claiming it's an abuse of first amendment rights or some rubbish.
The next thing should be mandatory lane keeping.
- WarOnPrivacy 2y ago> This is a progressive, good idea. It will save 24,000 injuries a year. This is what it is promised it will do. What it will do is what it can, with the resources that are left over for development and safety - once shareholders and execs are satisfied (per scotus: Dodge vs Ford).
- matthewfelgate 2y agoSorry but your comment makes no sense.
- err4nt 2y agoI think the person is saying there may be a vast difference between what's marketed and promised, and how projects like these have historically under-delivered or failed.
- WarOnPrivacy 2y agoYeah. Sorry for the wording. Not a lot of people are eager to converse with my 6am head.
- RhysU 2y agoI misjudged a tight pass on the highway this past weekend. It was stupid on my part but I will faux righteously blame the clown camping in the passing lane. My car's warning system lost its mind as I approached the car in the right lane. I accelerated through the situation and into the left lane because I knew speeding up was contextually appropriate. Had the car possessed an automatic braking system, the car disastrously would have jammed on the brakes with me mid-lane-change. That would not have been pretty in heavy highway traffic.
- matthewfelgate 2y agoHonestly no idea what you're on about.
- superkuh 2y agoBecause people here understand information technology. Any system that can accomplish this will be complex enough to fail regularly. It will be a net decrease in road safety. It will be a decrease in vehicle movement predictability. And it will be a significant decrease in vehicle operational lifetime as well as increased mantainence cost.
- matthewfelgate 2y agoNot according to the data.
- dotnet00 2y agoIt's the current HN culture to whine about all technology, especially if it isn't impossibly perfect.
- CivBase 2y agoTo be fair, the reliability threshold had better be extremely high for systems controlling a 2 ton box going 120 km/hr surrounded by other boxes of similar velocity. There's plenty of room for reasonable discourse about where exactly that threshold should be. I suspect most of us (myself included) are also probably not familiar with how reliable modern iterations of this technology are.
- teeray 2y agoIt may save 24,000, but kill, say, 50,000 in new ways due to bugs.
- matthewfelgate 2y agoNo Karen.