....it’ll pull to the side of the road and end the ride. If this were to work, I’d take a guess that 90-percent of winter accidents would have been taken out of the statistical display. The same feature could determine weather patterns and refuse to enter areas where flooding would typically occurs.
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However the stats for people dying frozen in their cars and people dying while walking on the side of the road, as well as people mugged by ferals increases exponentially
I can think of quite a few senarios where I would not want the car to stop and stubbornly refuse to budge. It sounds either infuriating or panicky, depending on the situation. It is true that inexperienced drivers should not go out for a joy ride during ice and snow (unless it is an empty parking lot and they are trying to gain experience). They are not the only ones on the road, though, and you are right. If the car just stops, the occupants are going to need rescuing in an ice storm and who is going to do that if everyone’s cars are refusing to drive.
For that matter, who wants to live in a world where all of these decisions are made for us and we are robbed of free will? What’s the point of our being there at all? Let the machines get together and have a ball. This has gone way beyond the simple convenience that our appliances were supposed to provide for us. Now it is about taking control away from us.