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by Planar 13y ago
Mainstream marketing has already happened. Look closely at commercials for "active safety", "lane departure prevention", "collision prevention assistance", "lateral collision avoidance". They are phra
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by Planar 13y ago
>> "... you, the driver, will have to be ready to take over should its operating system go all Microsoft 'blue screen of death' on you." Driver re-engagement is a major problem we[1] are running into. Until cars ca
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by Planar 13y ago
The 2014 Mercedes E- and S-klasses that I've tested also do active intervention if you try to change lanes towards a car in your blindspot. Via braking on the opposite side.
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by Planar 13y ago
We (automotive active safety engineers) don't look at it as a percentage-of-inept-drivers, but more like the Trolley Problem[1], that is, overall harm vs benefit. To put it another way: seatbelts, airbags, and heart surgery hurt/k
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by Planar 13y ago
EuroNCAP[1] requires increasing levels of automated pedestrian protection -- i.e. autonomous braking or avoidance -- to get a 5-star safety rating starting in about 2015. Because World Health Organization predicts 3% of fatalities in 2030 w
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by Planar 14y ago
"Please correct the following: Password must be between 6 and 15 characters and may not contain < or >" Local pizza delivery ordering site. Actual site is stephanies.co, but ordering is through "letsget.net".
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Disturbing password rule: No left/right carets. (HTML?)(letsget.net)
1 points by Planar 14y ago|2 comments