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That's not true. If you're on the freeway you could wind up killing multiple people behind you. It could be extremely dangerous.
by crazygringo 2y ago
That's not true. If you're on the freeway you could wind up killing multiple people behind you. It could be extremely dangerous.
- belter 2y ago> It could be extremely dangerous. You are on a beta, experimental, self driving vehicle. The time to update your life insurance has passed.
- alibarber 2y agoNo, I'm driving normally at 50 in the rain or whatever and some AI hype-wagon in front of me has slammed on the brakes and swerved across my lane. The CEO of HypeAI releases a heartfelt video in which they say they are truly sorry for my family's loss and by way of compensation offers them unlimited credits for HypeRides in select US cities conditions apply.
- kragen 2y agoIf the hype-wagon is swerving across lanes because of control software bugs, you definitely want the person in it to be able to hit an E-stop button so that it stops swerving after a finite number of lanes.
- thunky 2y agoHow is it any more dangerous than brakes on a traditional car? Anyone can slam the brakes in the middle of a highway. I'm assuming the e-stop button would not be right next to the blinker.
- kragen 2y agoIt's only dangerous to the people behind you if they are following you and each other far too closely. Also, the vast majority of multi-car pileups in the US kill zero people. In the record-breaking 168-car pileup two years ago in Louisiana, only 7 people died, an average of 0.04 deaths per vehicle: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/23/us/louisiana-fog-i55-crash-new-orleans/index.html https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/23/us/louisiana-fog-i55-cras... Also, as multiple people have pointed out, all non-self-driving cars already have this feature; it's called a brake pedal. Providing it should not be controversial.