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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.
Kill the tires, kill the engine, kill the energy supply (gas tank or batteries).
Go to the root cause, kill the Muslims
How would you stop such autonomous cargo truck with no driver to shoot at?
Well, how about not letting Islamic hordes of hoodlums into your country in the first place?
It also takes too long to manually process all the asylum applications. Germany needs an AI system to flag those who obviously have no grounds for seeking asylum. These could be expedited, with a human making the final judgement. Any asylum seeker found guilty of committing a violent crime should be booted immediately. A group of Islamic asylum seekers set a homeless man on fire in a Berlin subway station . . . this just *after* the Berlin Christmas market attacks. They were all already had police records for other offenses.
I'm actually surprised that other Islamic folks tolerate this type of behavior by members of their communities. Sure, technology can help, but what is really needed is the political will to deal the Islamic problem. Note that other Islamic countries do not accept any "refugees" . . . there's a reason why they don't.
We'll see how things go at the New Year's celebration in Cologne. There will be an extra 1,000 police on the streets. Will that be enough to prevent more Islamic shenanigans . . . ? Or will they just go wild in another city . . . ?
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
Was that before or after he called all Mexicans criminals? (You know, where he ended with "And some, I assume, are good people.")
Was that before or after he said he wanted to create a registry for an entire religion? (Which he's since flip-flopped on.)
Yeah, I'm not sure at all (sarcasm intended) where he got this rep for being a bigot.
Mr. Hu is not a ninja.