Not everybody crashes and dies. You have to be hang/crash the control system when the last control output that was sent to the throttle was speeding up.
And you have to have a vehicle that has computer controlled shift, and ignition.
Brakes are besides the point, they won’t hold a car at full throttle.
I don’t think there are any cars with computer controlled electric steering in production right now, but I could be wrong....that would increase deaths higher, because now just basic speed and a computer crash = bad news.
There ARE deaths, but until the industry acknowledges that their basic approach is unsafe, they will be ignored as the cost of doing business.
Did you know how long car manufacturers FOUGHT seat belts and airbags?
Don’t get me wrong, they should NOT be mandatory ,but they should be offered!
As for me, I will PAY EXTRA for a redundant, fail-safe system.......I just want the option -— if someone else wants to trust a 50 cent microprocessor and some pimply faced programmer, then by all means, go right ahead.
“There ARE deaths, but until the industry acknowledges that their basic approach is unsafe, they will be ignored as the cost of doing business.
Did you know how long car manufacturers FOUGHT seat belts and airbags?”
This sounds sinister, and I might join you on the picket line—or, more likely, the bar—against these evil companies. But wait, when you think about it, carmakers are not the only companies that have to factor death into cost-benefit and marketing considerations. People die from bathtubs, for pete’s sake.
Of course, cars are deadlier than tubs. Of course again, everyone knows cars are deadlier, yet they prefer to drive them anyway. Why? Because the ease and comfort of modern technology is worth the risk.
Your only argument is that people aren’t taking an informed risk because they’re being duped by a fog of mystery hanging over the true cost of microcontrollers. All the dozens (hundreds?, thousands?) of deaths and injuries have been covered up, I guess. Various investigations—carried out by people who, if anything, had an interest in finding something damning—which dug up nothing, were shams. Only you, with the help of your superspecial decoder ring, can see the truth.