yesterday I did a very long drive in the pouring rain to the hawkesbury.
the road was barely two way in some places and had potholes, repaired or
newly created.
I drove to what I believed were road conditions and only got lights
flashed and honking from one driver.
would have loved a self driving car to have delivered the passenger
instead of me coping with the treacherous drive.
On 5/10/22 17:01, Kim Holburn wrote:
On 2022/10/5 3:42 pm, David wrote:
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.
Since many cars don't have this technology, it's effectively switched
off, so I don't see the legal argument holds water.
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.
I depend on the technology of every car I've ever driven to get me out
of the essentially unsafe practice of driving at speeds that could
easily kill me, ie speeds over 60 kmh.
>In that case you'd be depending on the technology to get you out of
the essentially unsafe practice of tailgating.
I'm using it to do something I wouldn't be comfortable doing without
the additional, and I might add, legal and registered, technology.
>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,
It has many adjustments I can make to adapt it to different
circumstances. Just like I drive differently under different
circumstances. It's just another technology in a vehicle built with
many different technologies and controlled and driven with many
technologies.
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Marghanita da Cruz
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