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As long as the vehicle behind you is also equipped with AEB, you should be ok.
by Reason077 1y ago
As long as the vehicle behind you is also equipped with AEB, you should be ok.
- reassess_blind 1y agoYes, let’s hope that motorcycle has AEB.
- Reason077 1y agoIt's coming. Already mandatory for all new motorcycles in some countries.
- AnthonyMouse 1y agoIf you try to brake a motorcycle as fast as you would a car, it has a tendency to flip over. And in general different vehicles have different stopping distances, so "just have the whole line of cars all panic brake at once" is going to have them smashing into each other.
- ninalanyon 1y agoOnly if they are all driving too close the the car in front. If you keep to the recommended 3 seconds separation you will most often be fine even in bad weather. I drive my Tesla S on Autopilot with the separation set to the maximum which is about 3 seconds and it makes for a comfortable motorway driving experience.
- AnthonyMouse 1y agoHow close cars are to each other is generally determined by traffic volume. If there are twice as many cars, they can only be half as far apart because otherwise they can't physically fit on the same length of road. If you try to leave more space than that, other cars will merge into the empty space. The only way to actually do it overall is to reduce the traffic volume (or add more lanes), which is not something an individual driver has any control over. Which is to say, in practice cars will be following too closely whenever there is high traffic volume, and systems that don't work under real life conditions are broken.
- ninalanyon 1y agoAny individual driver can still maintain that spacing. If a car pulls in in front of my Tesla S it will simply drop back slowly until it achieves the set spacing (actually measured in time not distance) again. There are very few roads in my experience where long stretches are filled with high speed cars. The places that are filled with cars are usually around accidents and road works where the speed and hence separation distance are reduced. I don't think a three second separation has any meaningful impact on throughput. perhaps someone with the necessary expertise and tools could simulate it.
- reassess_blind 1y agoA motorcycle that emergency brakes without warning? If my bike did that I’d be going over the handlebars. There are no seatbelts here.
- smus 1y agoYou think a motorcycle will do serious damage to a car driver when rear ending?
- kelseyfrog 1y agoEmotional damage when they hit the inside of your front windshield like ground beef
- whatevaa 1y agoInfinitely more damage than if not rear ended. Don't brake check on a highway. Also, semi-trucks exist.