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I'm a cyclist as well as a driver and I give a lot of space to cyclists when overtaking them but I don't see that working too well. When cyclists/pedestrians ge

I'm a cyclist as well as a driver and I give a lot of space to cyclists when overtaking them but I don't see that working too well. When cyclists/pedestrians get used to the system they will start to abuse it and rely on the systems to force the vehicles to avoid them/stop. Also what defines too close? If you stray 1mm inside that zone do the brakes come on hard regardless of other traffic? What happens when the cyclist has come close to the car (overtaking either side in traffic).

Zigurd 12y ago
Autonomous braking exists for those kinds of events: When a person steps out in front of a car, for example. Yet I don't see people deliberately jumping out in front of cars just to mess with them.
- e40 12y ago
  It's pretty clear why, because there are too few cars with automatic breaks. When 100% of the cars have them, you might see it.
- danielweber 12y ago
  Because only a small fraction of cars have them. Jay-walking can be dangerous. When you know that all cars will stop for you, it becomes a lot safer to just cross the street wherever you want. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_compensation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_compensation
- josephlord 12y ago
  It's not deliberately jumping out to mess with them (although that might be a hijack risk in some regions of the world) but the person in a hurry seeing a street full of uncrashable cars and just running across the road in a much smaller gap than they would normally risk.
- jacquesm 12y ago
  Google 'russia dashcam' videos and have your worldview adjusted. Incredibly, in Russia people apparently throw themselves in front of cars to try to get injury compensation. It doesn't happen often but often enough that people have made compilation videos. That and a whole pile of crazy drivers are the reason that dashcams are so popular in Russia in the first place, they give the driver some evidence to show what happened prior to the accident.
  - TeMPOraL 12y ago
    So maybe the data collected by the cars could be used to sue people deliberately running through traffic to the Moon and back.
anon4 12y ago
The kind of people who would abuse that system likely already act that way expecting the human driver to break. The point of an auto breaking system is to prevent accidents when a well-intentioned cyclists makes an error in judgement.

Zigurd 12y ago

Autonomous braking exists for those kinds of events: When a person steps out in front of a car, for example. Yet I don't see people deliberately jumping out in front of cars just to mess with them.

e40 12y ago
It's pretty clear why, because there are too few cars with automatic breaks. When 100% of the cars have them, you might see it.
danielweber 12y ago
Because only a small fraction of cars have them. Jay-walking can be dangerous. When you know that all cars will stop for you, it becomes a lot safer to just cross the street wherever you want. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_compensation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_compensation
josephlord 12y ago
It's not deliberately jumping out to mess with them (although that might be a hijack risk in some regions of the world) but the person in a hurry seeing a street full of uncrashable cars and just running across the road in a much smaller gap than they would normally risk.
jacquesm 12y ago
Google 'russia dashcam' videos and have your worldview adjusted. Incredibly, in Russia people apparently throw themselves in front of cars to try to get injury compensation. It doesn't happen often but often enough that people have made compilation videos. That and a whole pile of crazy drivers are the reason that dashcams are so popular in Russia in the first place, they give the driver some evidence to show what happened prior to the accident.
- TeMPOraL 12y ago
  So maybe the data collected by the cars could be used to sue people deliberately running through traffic to the Moon and back.

anon4 12y ago

The kind of people who would abuse that system likely already act that way expecting the human driver to break. The point of an auto breaking system is to prevent accidents when a well-intentioned cyclists makes an error in judgement.