I see an underground industry for “automatic braking re-adjustors.”
I don’t like this at all.
Not one bit.
How about cellphone detectors and alchohol/drug sniffers being installed in new vehicles?
Those two items alone would negate most of the other nanny state safety devices on vehicles.
No matter what the government (and the automaker lobbyists who advocate this crap), does, they just will not be able to keep up with the geniuses who develop better idiots.
Because the best driving maneuver in that situation is to pull into another lane or even the shoulder, and you need an alert driver for that. Besides, with the average vehicle now 11 years old and at least half the population growing poorer and less likely to be able to afford a capability that's going to add $thousands for a feature that may be useful once per year at most, it's going to take decades to clear those cars having a different driving strategy than automatic braking. Utopianism rampant.
I decided after the tire presssure monitors and back-up cameras I would never buy another new car.
The car ahead of you has the brakes applied by their gov’t computer. Your car and 200 million others do not have this so you try to slam your brakes on to avoid hitting the car and the guy behind has to slam their brakes on and so forth.
More traffic accidents and more injuries. Remember the red light cameras which caused more accidents. Someone is paying off these people to make these rulings.
“Automatic emergency braking includes a range of systems designed to address the large number of crashes, especially rear-end crashes, in which drivers do not apply the brakes or fail to apply sufficient braking power to avoid or mitigate a crash.”
Part of the system must turn off your smart phone. More idiot proofing for automobiles.
I’ve had an ABS sensor go bad before, which caused the vehicle to be almost impossible to bring to a complete stop with the brake pedal; I had to pull the parking brake and skid to a stop, then had it towed for repair. I can envision something similar with automatic braking.
I see what you did there;)
Is 50 mph now mandated by the powers that be as the top legal speed? So you are motoring along with a string of cars behind you when the vehicle leading the pack over shoots his turn off and hits his brakes. What happens next?
Does the auto brake system prevent the driver from initiating an emergency stop? Does the auto brake system limit your car (and all the others in line) to a max of 50mph? Does the system regulate the vehicle to vehicle distance to one car length per 10 mph?
I can easily foresee a chain reaction crash for any number of system failure modes. I think I'm going to start looking for a good used car ASAP!
Regards,
GtG
A small animal runs across the road in front of your car, the car automatically slams on the brakes, and the older car behind you rear ends you.
But yet this feature makes driving safer.
Right.
If you really want to do something to reduce rear end collisions which are on the upswing then go after cell phones.
I may be a minority here, but folks who have raised (and/or are raising) teenage drivers will appreciate such automatic emergency braking capability incorporated into their cars...assuming, of course, they are properly designed, have strong security and have robustness and fail-safe attributes built in.
It would be great if Apple is working on this as a possible adjunct to CarPlay. I say Apple because of the attention they pay to quality and security.
What an unbelievably BAD IDEA!
Are they going to start making giant spring loaded safety crash mattresses that mount on the rear bumpers too so when the system automatically stops the car for no reason at all on a freeway so that the car that plows into the back of the “safe car” won’t be destroyed and the driver killed? Are they going to mandate that ALL automobiles without this amazingingly stupid idea will have to have giant front bumper safety mattresses too?
Trust me, technical quirks will kill people...and government mandates to build extra safety devices will certainly enrich those who have paid their respective elected official to introduce and support a new “safety” law that we did not need in the first place.
Way back in the early 80’s or late 70’s (I can’t remember exactly when) I wrote a letter to the editor of the Corpus Christi Caller Times about my feelings of the proposal of a law that would mandate the wearing of seat belts in new vehicles and the retrofit of such in older vehicles.
My point was that if a person want to wear one, he would. If not he wouldn’t. Then I delved into the fact that incrementalism would surely follow to appease the Chamber of Commerce and the manufactures that exist solely upon the dictated requirements of government safety rules.
Sure enough, we went from front seat belts, to rear seat belts, to things that look like some type of truss that straps you into the seat like a Thanksgiving turkey, to front seat baby carriers, to new carriers that face the baby backwards, to backseat carriers, to the physical size and age of children allowed to sit in the back seat, and on an on and on....
It never stops. Once started, the downhill roll, the safety snowball simply grows and grows and grows......like any (and all) government rules or regulations.
It’s time to stop it all and let people be responsible for their own actions and for their failures...for the government can’t change any of that and have not.
Having seen what goes wrong with some of the other “required” systems,I think you could foresee the possible problems with this one & maybe multiply it a few times.