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Hyundai To Release "Semi-Autonomous" Car This Year
jfruh writes While self-driving cars from Google and others remain in the prototype stage, Korean carmaker Hyundai intends to release a premium sedan called the Equus this year that includes self-driving features. While a car's ability to navigate complex urban environments on its own is still a ways off, the Equus will allow the driver to take their hands off the wheel and feet off the brakes during highway driving.
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Im quite familiar with Hyundai's semi-autonymous technology as they pioneered it 30 some years ago. The vehicle was capable of fully automatic shutdowns. Headlights, turn signals, brakes, you name it and this car would take care of it. At one point the vehicle, obviously sensing some mortal danger or impending disaster, pro-actively jetissoned the clutch into a stream of highway traffic in what I can only assume to this day saved my life from a bond villains clutches.
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Hyundais are so narcoleptically boring to drive they might as well just drive themselves and let the owner take a nap. Equally true for Toyota and Honda, even though Hyundai is Korean and the other two Japanese.
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I expect it will be a lot like cruise control where it will only kick on when particular conditions are set.
For the most part I see this as a great safety feature. Having driven highway for 5-6 hours in one shot, your eyes get strained from staying focused, and your instinct is to just close your eyes to let them rest a bit. Just having a feature to keep you in your lane, and not ramming into the car in front of you, is useful, where you can let your eyes focus on something easier for a few minutes, or away from some glare.
Oddly enough if you are not so intent in watching out for danger, you can be less focused and see what is happening around you much easier.
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If you're driving down the highway with your foot on the brake, then you *need* one of these systems.
The Hyundai, make nice looking cars with a lot of features that make them seem like they can compete against the big luxury names... However the features/price comes at a cost of vehicle quality.
I actually wish I could find, a basic Car, without any fancy features just, do what a car does, and do it well.
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I have a new Subaru with their collision-avoidance system and by and large it's very nice, but its lane-boundary warning system can get ... confused by tar-patched road cracks and especially by rutted snow. Which is OK by me when it's just a warning but if the car decides to actually act on that it's going to be a wee bit exciting.
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The journey to autonomous vehicles will probably be bumpy. Yes there will be lawsuits, yes sometimes the technology will misperform. It is possible that by relieving the driver of too many duties you encourage complacence that causes more accidents (or at least accidents to occur at times other than they would have, even if others are avoided).
Likely how to deal with distracted semi-autonomous operators will evolve quickly.
I have a neighbor with early onset Parkinson's disease, it would seem a good idea for his driving to have some sort of semi-autonomous assistance (yes he is still driving). How about the elderly? It is all fine and good to be indignant about the possible threat these vehicles pose (during a relatively short adoption period). But what about for those whose independence hinges on this sort of assist?
Seems there are many who forbid any period of transition with a zero tolerance policy for any mishaps regardless of how many lives might be saved.
I also assume the major auto makers who will be rolling these things out have lots a legal council and are being best advised on how to do so without being sued into bankruptcy after the first accident. The future is autonomous vehicles and the only way to be around 10 years from now as a car manufacturer is to get on the bandwagon early – despite the litigation risks.
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These kind of features might actually make people more aware while driving because they'll be so scared the car is going to make a mistake that they won't have time to goof around on their cell phone.
feet off the brakes during highway driving.
Firstly - feet, plural?
Secondly, you don't usually need to have even one foot on the brake pedal. In fact, I think some cars even let you drive without a foot on the accelerator...
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You do realize that mere days ago someone used the autopilot to crash an Airbus into a mountain, while also overriding the cockpit door locks? How is that not the "Boeing [idea] of automation?"
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Or you could just pull over and take a 5-10 minute walk every two hours or so to get some blood flowing to the brain again. In fact, I think this is recommended by most driving instructors.
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