What could possibly go wrong? IIHS study finds some cars with automatic braking didn’t even slow when approaching dummies wearing reflective strips
What could possibly go wrong? IIHS study finds some cars with automatic braking didn’t even slow when approaching dummies wearing reflective strips
High visibility striping acts as deceptive camoflage. For us and apparently, the machines.
Can I just have a nice new truck that doesn’t do anything but run, seat belt me in, have a good selection of gears, a decent box length, and can tow 7500 pounds that doesn’t cost $70,000? ($40,000 of which is stupid safety crap.)
There are still a few new 2023 Rams with the Eco-Diesel engine around. Cost of a new one, if you can find it is ~$50,000 US. Of course, it will have a video screen in it the size of a desktop computer monitor, but whatever you do, don’t talk on your phone because that is distracted driving.
How about geezers using walkers. Seems similar to reflective strips.
Maybe they didn’t want to go there after the reflective safety strips test.
♯♪♫ Grandma got run over by a
reindeerHonda. ♯♪♫The REAL dummies are the people who drive these vehicles, and rely on their ADAS systems to get them out of a jam.
I had the unique displeasure of driving a Honda CR-V recently. The damn thing wanted to take control all the time, from flicking on the high-beams when it wanted to, to actually disabling the cruise control while I was driving on the highway, because road spray clogged up the sensors and cameras fitted on the front bumper.
Of course, you simply can’t pull over on the highway to clean the sensors. Nope. Honda never figured that out, I guess. I guess Honda is still not quite familiar with winter driving in Canada.
But who would have thought of this rather unique way of disabling the car’s driver assists features. Just gummy up the sensors!
I particularly loved it when while on cruise control, the car started to slow down because I was approaching a vehicle in my lane… only that car was at least a 250 meters away, or when the cruise control accelerated to 140 km/hr from 80 km/hr after I pressed the accelerate button to increase speed to 90 km/hr.
I’d like to gummy up the sensors of the brain-dead imbecils that programmed that car’s driver assist features. I’d rather call them “Driver Distraction Features.”
I wonder if PP will let $10K-15K new pickups get sold in Canada?
Too bad the largest voting base in this craphole are the safety Karens.
Having been a flagger on the streets and highways in Alberta, I have seen a LOT of stupid, incompetence and aggression, enough to last a lifetime. One incident saw a truck accelerate towards me surpassing the 50kmph speed zone to the truck passing by me within 6 inches well north of 80kmph, as I bent backwards over the jersey barrier we were staging for new highway alignments. The truck would have run over me if I had remained working, the mirror would have taken my head off if I would have not leaned back.
As I am required to wear HiViz yellow suits with said striping, would those sensors not recognize me as well.
Wondering if the reflective sensors which are used on highway signs, road markers and directional markings are deliberately programmed to be ignored, as vehicles would be slowing and stopping while just driving down the highway or navigating in construction zones and curvey sections of roads?
That would be my best guess.
The reflective paint is deliberately deprogrammed. IMHO
Pedestrian MAID.
It’s going to get better. The Israelies programmed exploding cell phones. Just imagine what fun nadty people can have accessing smart vehicles. Chaos.
I’ll freely admit I’ve lost my long-standing bet on autonomous vehicles and will donate the pot to Kate’s blog hosting fund.