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Drivers Tend To Kill Pedestrians At Night. Thermal Imaging May Help. (www.forbes.com)

submitted 10 months ago by L4s to c/technology

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Drivers Tend To Kill Pedestrians At Night. Thermal Imaging May Help.::Pedestrian automatic emergency braking (AEB), which may become mandatory on U.S. cars in the future, tends to not perform well in the dark.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (13 children)

Something must be wrong then.

Or its just a (now) standard emergency braking feature (not meant as a substitute, but to lessen crash outcomes), not radar cruise control. If it is tho, look in the settings, maybe you can adjust something there. But radar breaking on all new-ish cars is smooth. But it does tend to sightly mimic the driving (accelerating and braking) style of the car in front, especially in cities as it tries to be polite & not make others impatient.

Also afaik radar braking/cruise control is something to turn on, can't be on by default.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (7 children)

They didn't get the car brand new but it wasn't very old. Perhaps the previous owner turned on the setting

I have been in the settings and adjusted it but in the end it was just easier to turn the function off

Its probably awesome on the Autobahns but its a danger on windytight roads that I drive on. Probably 3 or 4 times it braked on me when there was no reason to do so. There's one bit near my approaching a roundabout and it beeps like hell at me to slow down at least 50% of the time. Fortunately I'm back in my own car now as I don't need the automatic (I injured my left leg)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Oh, I don't have a comparative experience at all. But also once you touch the brakes all cruise control should turn off anyway so I'm not sure if we are talking about the same thing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No, I'm not talking about having cruise control on in any of my comments. Just driving with the pedals myself

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Oh, yeah, I see that now - I'm just in awe that issues like that are a thing (so I assumed the other system).

But I'm intrigued what makes for such difference (cars/tech, environments, legislation? - like adaptive lights were a legislation issue in US).

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