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I have a brand new CR-V. These cars have been able to 'read' the speed limit signs for a handful of years now. It read a 25 Mph sign as 50 Mph in my neighborho

I have a brand new CR-V. These cars have been able to 'read' the speed limit signs for a handful of years now. It read a 25 Mph sign as 50 Mph in my neighborhood the other day. I also previously had a CR-V and in one section of road on a curve, where the fog line isn't clear and there is a chip-and-seal fix going across the roadway, the lane keeping assistant complains about drift. The new one does this, too. Same place. I've encountered similar issues with the braking warning. These camera-based systems are imperfect. Humans are also imperfect, but unlike cameras, some of us have some power of deduction/reasoning/thought. If anything, I would prefer California's approach where the car complains at you if you're going >10 Mph. Since CA is adopting that rule in the coming years, I'm sure we'll see this on all cars in the US (2030, I think?). I do wonder for those people who enjoy track meets with road-legal cars will handle this technology. EDIT: What happens if the user blinds the camera? It said it also uses SatNav, but that's not perfect, either.

znpy 2y ago
> If anything, I would prefer California's approach where the car complains at you if you're going >10 Mph. Will the approach actually do anything, though ? Most modern cars will complain loudly and continuously if you don't wear seat belts, until you wear seat belts. And yet ... I have older relatives that bought a plug to insert into the seat belt socket so it will shut up. And most likely one that that one of those older relative will die (and maybe kill too) in a car accident and I won't be allowed to say he died like he live: like a moron who not only drove without a seat belt but also actively deceived the security systems in the car. The thing is: security systems should just make it impossible to do something unsafe. Otherwise it's all performative "security".
- nullindividual 2y ago
  It's unlikely that any of these systems are 'hack proof'. Physical access, and all that. I don't know the specifics of the CA implementation, so I can't speak to it beyond what I previously stated.
  - znpy 2y ago
    > It's unlikely that any of these systems are 'hack proof'. Physical access, and all that. Surely, but if you don't even try... It's just theater.

znpy 2y ago

> If anything, I would prefer California's approach where the car complains at you if you're going >10 Mph. Will the approach actually do anything, though ? Most modern cars will complain loudly and continuously if you don't wear seat belts, until you wear seat belts. And yet ... I have older relatives that bought a plug to insert into the seat belt socket so it will shut up. And most likely one that that one of those older relative will die (and maybe kill too) in a car accident and I won't be allowed to say he died like he live: like a moron who not only drove without a seat belt but also actively deceived the security systems in the car. The thing is: security systems should just make it impossible to do something unsafe. Otherwise it's all performative "security".

nullindividual 2y ago
It's unlikely that any of these systems are 'hack proof'. Physical access, and all that. I don't know the specifics of the CA implementation, so I can't speak to it beyond what I previously stated.
- znpy 2y ago
  > It's unlikely that any of these systems are 'hack proof'. Physical access, and all that. Surely, but if you don't even try... It's just theater.