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Automatic Brakes Stopped Berlin Truck During Christmas Market Attack (dw.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Deutsche Welle: The truck that plowed into a Berlin Christmas market, killing 12, came to a halt due an automatic braking system, according to German media reports on Wednesday. The automatic braking system potentially saved the lives of many more people in the recent terrorist attack. An investigation by newspaper "Suddeutsche Zeitung" and broadcasters "NDR" and "WDR" found the Scania R 450 semi-trailer stopped after between 70 and 80 meters (250 feet). The system was reportedly engaged after sensing a collision. Previous reports speculated that the truck had driven erratically and stopped due to the heroic actions of the truck's Polish driver, who lay fatally wounded in the cabin. In 2012 the European Union adopted regulations requiring all new trucks exceeding 3,500 kilograms be fitted with advanced emergency braking systems. The systems initially alert drivers and then take evasive action. The regulation was adopted to reduce the number of rear end collisions by trucks.
Fortunately you have to be kind of an idiot to want to murder people like this anyway.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
Handling Muslim refugees is simple: have Muslim countries handle it. Why would a Christian country accept Muslims? It doesn't make sense. Christians are the mortal enemies of Muslims (it says so in the Koran)? Why won't the Muslim countries take all the refugees? It is their people.
Quran (5:51) - "O you who believe! do not take the Jews and the Christians for friends; they are friends of each other; and whoever amongst you takes them for a friend, then surely he is one of them; surely Allah does not guide the unjust people."
And DON'T say that is "out of context". This is the Koran. Direct quote.
After you already hit something? What would you win by not hitting the brakes? People rear ending you still have their airbags and seatbelts and crumple zones, which will protect them from the worst. People in front of you don't. So breaking and getting some 40 ton heap of steel into stillstand as soon as possible once it is out of control (and because it hit something, there is enough proof to call it out of control) is in any case better than let it run to save the people driving to close behind it a few bucks by keeping their cars undamaged.
How would you stop such autonomous cargo truck with no driver to shoot at?
Fortunately you have to be kind of an idiot to want to murder people like this anyway.
That fact doesn't lessen the threat; the world is filled with idiots, after all.
I'm a minority race. Save your vitriol for white people.
Sure, but if you strive to make the world idiot-proof it sucks for everyone.
We shouldn't react to events like this by compounding the loss of life with a loss of rights, loss of dignity and loss of humanity. Most Germans can still remember what that was like.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
Any asylum seeker found guilty of committing a violent crime should be booted immediately.
Funny, Trump suggested this for illegal immigrants, instead of refugees, and he was called a racist for saying it. I see people decided you are insightful for saying something very similar, just a different country with different people. The difference is Trump was talking about those illegally in the country, instead of approved to be there.
I'm not sure why this is an acceptable view to have now, where it was completely irrational and crazy just a month ago. Perhaps people should keep this in mind when trying to figure out how he won the election.