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Nissan Develops Emergency Auto-Steering System
AmiMoJo writes "Japanese automaker Nissan Motor says it has developed a new technology to help drivers avoid collisions. A new computer system automatically steers the car to avoid colliding with objects in the road. The system relies on radar and laser scanners. It also uses a front-mounted camera to provide information on what's happening outside the car. The system first alerts the driver to turn in a certain direction. If the driver cannot immediately turn in that direction, the system takes over the steering to help avoid a collision."
The real problem is false positives: the car detects falsely a problem, avoids a non-collision, and even brakes by mistake. Worse will be when a false positive will induce an accident that wouldn't have happened otherwise.
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Aye, learned that the hard way the first time my RX8 met ice. Pro tip... turn off traction control prior to hitting ice. Your speed will not matter. It would send me into a spin at 20mph.
I've actually met several ambulance drivers around here who say the same thing -- these days they simply outright refuse to even consider cars where you can't turn such crap off. Those things are just a major disaster waiting to happen.
Electronic stability control is dangerous and a bad idea.
I don't respond to AC's.
ASC+T works great on my E36 BMW with some slight modification, though it wasn't at all bad in stock form.
Pro tip... install appropriate tires prior to driving on ice. I've got a set of skinny Blizzaks that I use for winter driving, and the combination makes the E36 the most stable and predictable car I've ever driven on snow and ice. It just works.
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" I've got a set of skinny Blizzaks that I use for winter driving, and the combination makes the E36 the most stable and predictable car I've ever driven on snow and ice."
I live in an area that often has very snowy winters, and trying to convince people to use narrow tires in the winter is like talking to a brick wall. They want to put monster tires on their trucks, for example, and try to claim that the big "contact patch" will solve all their problems.
But I have seen the difference with my own eyes. Listen to parent, folks. If you drive on snow & ice, get narrow tires. It might just save your butt.
I didn't mean dropping it a gear in an emergency but rather driving in a lower gear at a slow speed so when you lift the accelerator you have the nice gradual braking. Decelerating in that way guarantees you have rolling friction rather than static friction of locking wheels. That's the aim of ABS, to have rolling friction rather than static locked wheels. Regardless of how fancy your ABS is, driving speed is what's going to make the biggest difference in braking distance.
"If you are going through hell, keep going." - Winston Churchill
I was in a vehicle in which the ABS system decided to malfunction. There's nothing like the feeling of standing on a firm brake pedal and noticing you're not slowing down. Thankfully is was at 10 kph. I was also glad there wasn't a pedestrian crossing the street at the time.
New technologies do have some issues. Although I really wish that system would have failed off than failing on (thinking I was in a skid.)
Seat belts are awesome when there are roll cages installed in the vehicle.... how many Corollas and Honda civics do you see out there with roll cages installed?
All of them. Anything built for the European market has to have pretty good rollover protection, rather better than the protection afforded by a couple of lengths of scrap scaff pole welded in by Crazy Pete at the tyre-fitting centre.