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If the car is now expected to do the braking for me, does that mean I can floor it everywhere, knowing the car is supposed to brake automatically when detecting collisions etc. If it fails, who is liable? Driver, or faulty software?
“The car has AEB and it failed to detect the person in the road. The car and braking system failed so I am entirely not liable. Go sue ford instead”
Don't forget the tradeoff with all the emerging automatic breaking in cars. If your car is braking "faster than a human" can react or brake, that has cascading effects to every car behind you, which may or may not have the same features. Following distance at highway speed just became way more important.
That does seem really dangerous, in terms of people who aren't expecting a he cars they're to stop. Or then our expecting their cars to stop and their cars don't stop. And how bad we know Teslas are at stopping.
On the other hand, if it is implemented, people will be driving super carefully.
adding this kind of a feature seems like it'll make cars more difficult to drive, and people are already so bad at driving.