this will not have good effect if you are getting rear ended, in fact it will make injuries worse if the passenger sees it coming and braces for impact.
adjust the brakes to let the car absorb part of the crash over a yard or two.
if this causes your car to roll into the car in front of you, then the accident becomes your fault. Also it INCREASES the impact force felt by the passengers.
You would feel obligated to defend yourself against being punched. You wouldn't feel obligated to defend yourself against being rear ended.
I have no obligation to defend myself from being rear-ended because in most cases there is literally nothing to be done. You can't get out of the way if there is traffic in front of you and you can't punch back at the car that's about to rear end you.
Do you have an example of how they prepare you more for driving than other countries, including the US?
My experience is that in my driver's education class, we spent ZERO time in high speed driving, ZERO time in congested traffic. We got NO practical experience of ANY sort in ANY kind of defensive driving or even how to drive on anything other than a flat straight road in broad daylight.
Otherwise losers like you would be clogging up the courts with your lame excuses as to why you rear-ended someone. It's your goddamn fault and that's the end of it.
YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO BE IN CONTROL OF YOUR CAR AT ALL TIMES.
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I wonder if the same driver would have been distracted if there were no obvious markings that it was a self driving car.
If anything, the markings would distract the driver into ignoring OTHER vehicles, not the one that draws attention.
Pre-tension the seat belts
this will not have good effect if you are getting rear ended, in fact it will make injuries worse if the passenger sees it coming and braces for impact.
adjust the brakes to let the car absorb part of the crash over a yard or two.
if this causes your car to roll into the car in front of you, then the accident becomes your fault. Also it INCREASES the impact force felt by the passengers.
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bacon is inferior to the real thing
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people who like bacon are really craving for roasted human
Gosh, it's orwellian to call the police to report an erratic driver? Is it orwellian when people do it?
what's the best way to use the road
live in a civilized place
I can imagine a law requiring manually-driven cars to have crash-avoidance technology installed, though.
can you imagine a car making value judgements: "what is more valuable? the passengers in the car or the pedestrians on the side of the road"
so now we need to put an asterisk at the end of every assertion*
* - except in cases of fraud
if your air bag causes a car to bounce off of yours and into another car, the other car could claim that its damage was your fault
For example, it would be easy to cheat traffic by cutting off robotic cars, because you know you'll win the game of chicken.).
you'll lose the game when its cameras record your deed and send the evidence to the cops
You would feel obligated to defend yourself against being punched. You wouldn't feel obligated to defend yourself against being rear ended.
I have no obligation to defend myself from being rear-ended because in most cases there is literally nothing to be done. You can't get out of the way if there is traffic in front of you and you can't punch back at the car that's about to rear end you.
Do you have an example of how they prepare you more for driving than other countries, including the US?
My experience is that in my driver's education class, we spent ZERO time in high speed driving, ZERO time in congested traffic. We got NO practical experience of ANY sort in ANY kind of defensive driving or even how to drive on anything other than a flat straight road in broad daylight.
unless you are going to demand this behavior from all human drivers, you can't demand it from computers either
Why would you be obliged to defend yourself? It's not your fault that they're punching you.
and now we are back to your fantasy interpretations of reality
this is precisely why the law mandates a third brake light
If someone were to punch you, would you move out of the way, or stay there, on the basis that it's their responsibility not to punch you?
If I moved out of the way I would not have a chance to punch them back. If they are punching first then I have every right to defend myself.
If I can do something to prevent someone rear ending me then I will do so.
statistically speaking the best way to do that is to take the bus
you can also take steps to avoid drunk drivers
and you can take steps to avoid getting sideswiped
and you can take steps to avoid road debris
this is what we call driving
If a victim can avoid being a victim then there's an obligation to do so.
thank goodness this doctrine is only a fairy tale in your mind
Computer driving system needs to avoid all accidents, not just proclaim after each one "its not its fault!"
Maybe you can explain how a car is supposed to avoid getting rear-ended when there is no place to go.
suddenly causing rear enders so maybe at "11" it is their fault.
there is a simple legal concept at work here:
It is your responsibility to be in control of your vehicle at all times.
If you allow your vehicle to strike another, it's your fault.
because now you are following too closely and you will hit the car in front of you if they slow down quickly
It's not as simple as assigning fault.
YES, it IS.
Otherwise losers like you would be clogging up the courts with your lame excuses as to why you rear-ended someone. It's your goddamn fault and that's the end of it.
YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO BE IN CONTROL OF YOUR CAR AT ALL TIMES.
That's not so hard, is it?
I think it is perhaps *partly* the Google car's fault.
Thank goodness we don't use your thinking processes as law
I wonder if the Google car itself serves as a distraction to other drives.
Only the ones who would also be distracted by many other things, they are already a menace.