On 5/10/22 14:48, Kim Holburn wrote:
On 2022/10/5 11:57 am, David wrote:
But it had to be disabled every time vehicle was started, perhaps in
part for very sound legal reasons.
??? Which were?
If a driver "intentionally" disables the system when they start the car,
then that particular driver accepts legal responsibility for so doing
because the system resets when the car is switched off.
However lane-keeping, automatic-braking, and similar technology in a
domestic car is intended to compensate for unsafe drivers who fall
asleep, tailgate, and so on.
There may be technologies that might compensate for unsafe drivers who
fall asleep, but these aren't them.
I badly worded that. I had in mind a driver who micro-sleeps but is
woken up when the car brakes because it's getting to close to the one in
front.
My car has adaptive cruise control that allows me to "tailgate"
relatively safely. Is this a good thing?
In that case you'd be depending on the technology to get you out of the
essentially unsafe practice of tailgating. It would be interesting to
know whether it would stop you safely should the car in front be doing
the same thing but without the technology, and you're all on a greasy
road. I'm not a lawyer, but I doubt the Judge would think the
technology was relevant.
David Lochrin
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