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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."
People become more reliant on it and could end up paying even less attention rather than pay fucking attention to the car in front of them.
the whole point here is that humans are really poor drivers, they kill tens of thousands every year. expecting them do to better is really just folly. they need help.
I think you misspelt "Americans" there.
No, Americans are actually among the better drivers in the world.
Maybe you should try looking at the accident death rates for different countries.
Nope, what ABS does is rapidly pulse the brakes for you (and much faster than you can)
so in other words the car is deciding the braking action, not you
It is also easy for Tesla to "volunteer", since all of their cars already have this technology. So they are agreeing to do nothing.
oh but you see, they now have the blessing passing the buck, in the name of safety!
Except markets don't work that way. There is no requirement to "pass the buck" to justify price increases. If they want to change the price, they can just change it, and car retailers do that daily, as supply and demand fluctuate.
Very few of the rear end collisions that this type of system protects against have fatalities.
Whiplash injuries are really horrible, the damage is permanent and painful forever. They happen even in low speed collisions. You've completely neglected the fact that whiplash injuries will be greatly reduced.
I've never heard of automatic emergency braking while in reverse, just when moving forward.
In heavy snow and/or ice, when your wheels are not rotating, your vehicle is going to continue sliding in whatever direction it currently is moving, regardless of which direction you have the front wheels pointed.
ABS RELEASES your brakes, so the wheels can rotate, both giving you more control over which direction you go AND working to increase the friction between your tires and the surface they are on [as when the tire is sliding, the coefficient of friction between the tire and the surface is LESS than it would be if the tire is rotating.
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Even if you lock them up hard (which is easy to do when on glare ice) the traction control system still detects that the wheels have stopped.
Some systems used initertial sensors, but it was found that drivers will steer during a skid, and this fact can be used by the computer that it is in a 4 wheel skid.
Modern electronic stability control systems are an evolution of the ABS concept. Here, a minimum of two additional sensors are added to help the system work: these are a steering wheel angle sensor, and a gyroscopic sensor. The theory of operation is simple: when the gyroscopic sensor detects that the direction taken by the car does not coincide with what the steering wheel sensor reports, the ESC software will brake the necessary individual wheel(s) (up to three with the most sophisticated systems), so that the vehicle goes the way the driver intends.
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