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This would be the end of BMW sales...
Maybe not stop, but it can help, just as technology does elsewhere. Still no substitute for human brain and judgement.
I’d rather see tax dollars funding R&D that could turn out spinoffs that would drive innovation and create jobs than pissing them down the ARRA rathole where there will be no measurable effect, other than in our wallets for decades to com.
Maybe a better approach would be to restrict or eliminate drivers with a propensity to commit errors.
Considering how some morons drive, while texting or talking on the phone, this might be a real boon to safety. But it all seems part of taking control from the idiots and thereby dumbing down society and personal responsibilty even further.
I rode in one of those ‘automatic-braking’ Volvos last Tuesday night and it was kind of neat. However, had the driver not tailgated, there would have been no need for this safety feature.
On the flip side, I can see some geek A-hole try to spoof the system and cause mass crashes and/or traffic jams. Just because they can.
I long for the days when the machines were the dumb ones.
What if.....
Your car can't communicate with any others because none are close enough or you are in a geographical location where the signal will not get to another vehicle?
What if you are driving a vehicle without 'onboard systems'? Do you and your vehicle 'exist' to the 'smart' vehicles? Or will manual operators be banned?
Isn't this just another way to track people, their actions, movements, their activities?
Is this going to be used as a vehicle to tax operators for 'driving unenvironmentally', for exceeding government allotted distances? for every foot of motion?
Watch as Obamite Motors start installing similar stuff in the government aprooved vehicles in the future (they already have 'black boxes', voice/vehicle communications/surveillance, and GPS.)
And the big bad wolf said, "The better to track you with, my dear."
Let a couple clouds get in the way or you’re in the middle of some cement barriers or buildings and just watch a GPS go all wacky. One overcast day I was driving at about 45 mph but my gps said I was going around 2,500 mph. Thanks, but no thanks.
“...and even lowering a “curtain or shield” over the windscreen, preventing the panicking driver from seeing what is happening and making rash decisions”
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WTH?
Yeah sure, I want that in my car...NOT!
At first glance I thought it read “Technology Could Stop Spending and Crashes”...I thought they were implanting a taser-like chip inside the brains of socialists. /to another thread.
An insurance company that would offer a policy to any car manufacturer who rolls out the “take-over-the-controls” component of this technology would be an excellent stock to immediatly eliminate from one’s portfolio.
How about we spend our efforts ensuring that those elected to public office will without fail obey the laws of economics, adhere to the Constitution of the United States and make all decisions in ways that will only benefit the American people and the country. Wonder what that machine would look like? An electric chair perhaps or keep it simple a hangman’s noose.
A warning system could have 4 speakers placed about the driver and emit different sounds and volumes depending on objects around the car. With practice a driver would have audio eyes on the back of their head and could crudely "see" all around them without looking. Also athletes might have an advantage if they wore a head device with 4 speakers. If a child wore such a device while their brain was developing they might be able to develop advanced skills to "see" all around them and be able to walk about blind or in the dark.