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10 Major Automakers Agree To Include Automatic Emergency Braking On New Vehicles
An anonymous reader writes: The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Department of Transportation, and Institute for Highway Safety announced today a landmark agreement from 10 of the world's biggest automakers to include automatic emergency braking on all new vehicles as a standard safety feature. The car manufacturers are: Audi, BMW, Ford, General Motors, Mazda, Mercedes Benz, Tesla, Toyota, Volkswagen and Volvo. "Automatic emergency braking includes a range of systems designed to address the large number of crashes, especially rear-end crashes, in which drivers do not apply the brakes or fail to apply sufficient braking power to avoid or mitigate a crash. AEB systems use on-vehicle sensors such as radar, cameras or lasers to detect an imminent crash, warn the driver and, if the driver does not take sufficient action, engage the brakes."
That's a next step, but this one is just another way to interfere with a driver. My traction control system tries to murder me at least twice every winter.
You mean that automakers are allowing the police to stop people's vehicles at any time for any reason, remotely.
That technology already exists. It's usually called a police roadblock.
I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of killer sig, which this margin is too narrow to contain.
"That technology already exists. It's usually called a police roadblock."
This new method means they can stop you without having to take the doughnut out of their mouths or get out of their car.