The Transportation Department projects the new rule could save 360 lives a year and prevent 24,000 injuries.
The Biden administration plans to require that all new cars and trucks come with pedestrian-collision avoidance systems that include automatic emergency braking technology by the end of the decade.
In an interview, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said the requirement is designed to reduce pedestrian deaths, which have been on the rise in the post-Covid 19 era.
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The new standards will require all cars to avoid contact at up to 62 mph and mandate that they must be able to detect pedestrians in the dark. They will also require braking at up to 45 mph when a pedestrian is detected.
The Transportation Department projects the rule could save 360 lives a year and prevent 24,000 injuries.
I don’t really trust my car to autobreak. This could be just as dangerous as it is safe. Imagine going down the highway in busy traffic and having your breaks lock up because your car had a Tesla Moment and thought the truck driving in front of you was at a full stop.
Automated vehicles systems in general have proven to be disastrous and poorly designed over the recent years. This is premature.
Tesla seems to have pretty good autobreak technology. Like, the brake pedal in the Cyber Truck breaks off by itself.
That’s handy when the accelerators stuck to the bottom of the floor.
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if it’s required then the cars around you probably have it as well. i have driven several vehicles with the auto brake tech and the new vehicle have consistently gotten better compared to some that got it “early” and even the 2016/18 implementations I have driven didn’t seem to have any issue with highway driving.
If it’s radar based it should be very reliable. The big issue is camera based stuff. Cameras can’t measure much, only colour and brightness. From this everything is inferred not measured. Inferring things isn’t inherently bad, but the errors need to be accurately known and considered. They probably are, it’s just they are not weighted correctly relative to cost.
Two cameras can measure distance as well. It’s how our eyes work and how things like 3D scanners work.
Stereoscopic camera systems exist and they can work very well (like on my ten year old car).
They still don’t measure distance, they only infer it by comparing two images. This still has the same issue. It’s just a more reliable way to infer distance than a single camera. It also requires less processing, hence it was popular for earlier computer vision applications.
Auto-braking doesn’t cause the brakes to lock. You still have control and can hit the accelerator to un-brake.
And even if they work perfectly rolling off the factory floor, how well is it going to work 15 years down the line? Hell, I have an 08 that seems like it’s going to last me at least another 5 years.
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