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I think people probably said that about cruise control when it was introduced, and that turned out okay.
by thenmar 12y ago
I think people probably said that about cruise control when it was introduced, and that turned out okay.
- scintill76 12y agoDefine "okay." Cruise control has gotten "stuck" at 50mph[0], and electronic throttle control has left the throttle open disregarding user input[1]. So yeah, it's not some apocalyptic, universally-agreed failure that happens every day, but people have actually been killed[2] because the machine did something the driver wouldn't have done if they were in full control. (Maybe it's "compensated" for by deaths that were prevented by having cruise control -- I suppose we can't know for sure.) [0] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1236020/Horror-ride-driver-stuck-50mph-cruise-control-30-minutes-slow-traffic.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1236020/Horror-ride-... [1] http://embeddedgurus.com/state-space/2014/02/are-we-shooting-ourselves-in-the-foot-with-stack-overflow/ http://embeddedgurus.com/state-space/2014/02/are-we-shooting... [2] http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1319903 http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1319903