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Volvo Self-Parking Car Hits People Because Owner Didn't Pay For Extra Feature

Posted by Soulskill on from the problem-exists-between-keyboard-and-car dept.

schwit1 writes: A video that recently went viral shows a demonstration of a Volvo XC60's self-parking feature. It reverses itself, waits, and then confidently drives into a group of people at a non-negligible speed. (Two were hit, and while both were bruised, they were otherwise OK.) The situation was presumed to have resulted from a malfunction with the car — but the car might not have had the ability to recognize a human at all. A Volvo representative said the car was not equipped with the "Pedestrian detection" feature. That feature is sold as a separate package.

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  1. Sure, let's make everything tiered by spiritplumber · · Score: 4, Funny

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?... Similar situation.

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    1. Re:Sure, let's make everything tiered by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      Volvo's new tiered purchase plan: and would you like tires with that? What about brakes? An engine?

    2. Re:Sure, let's make everything tiered by Bing+Tsher+E · · Score: 3, Funny

      These were Journalists. You know, the people who flunked Calculus 1, and then couldn't get into the English department because they were spending so much of their time hanging out at the lit table or at rallies that they weren't doing the readings. So they transferred into J-School.

  2. Re:Great marketing by RabidReindeer · · Score: 4, Funny

    Release to market with minimum feature set, Microsoft would be proud.

    Only if it also includes easily-exploitable security holes.

  3. Re: Someone Please Provide a Better Explanation by Sir_Eptishous · · Score: 3, Funny

    The pedestrian avoidance is a completely separate piece of shit.

    FTFY

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