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One part of my brain is saying: Sweet piece of technology!!! Another is saying: This seems like a very convenient piece of good PR for Tesla (and self driving car technology)... Yet another is saying: I hope the folks in the car are alright
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No other car can do this actually. Only Tesla
The whole radar unit and lots of the intelligence in it comes prepackaged from Bosch. So yes, plenty of high-end cars do this.
And to support your comment - yes, this isn't exclusive to Tesla by any means!
My understanding is that a lot of recent year car models at least in Europe come with a safety feature exactly like this. Here is the video promoting Skoda's "Front Assistant" feature: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ounFkvTuobY If Skoda has it I am sure that all other models in the VW Group's line (VW, Audi, Seat etc) should have it.
It works really well (not): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y5qwU0hwB0
This is great video to study on many levels beyond self-driving car. Some observations: * The car behind didn't show turn signal so probably driver wasn't paying attention. * A small car escaping with not too much damage while SUV rolls over many times * From physics point of view, the car behind produced almost perfect torque that started horizontal spin on SUV * Collisions with barrier at high speed can produce lot…
I'm feeling rather dumb, but can't really intuitively understand the physics here. I see a small car hitting a pretty huge one and yet spins the huge one several times. I always thought those bigger cars are safer / stronger / more resistant to hits? Is it purely because it hit it at the corner, so all the force went into the "spinning axis"? (did I say I feel dumb?)
One part of my brain is saying: Sweet piece of technology!!! Another is saying: This seems like a very convenient piece of good PR for Tesla (and self driving car technology)... Yet another is saying: I hope the folks in the car are alright
Relying on error-prone, distracted, slow humans to guide massive killing machines is playing Russian roulette. AI driving will no doubt be eventually better than the best human driver within a decade, in nearly all instances.
Why can't we appreciate tech advances without devaluing people?
One part of my brain is saying: Sweet piece of technology!!! Another is saying: This seems like a very convenient piece of good PR for Tesla (and self driving car technology)... Yet another is saying: I hope the folks in the car are alright
I am sure that Tesla didn't publish this video, an individual person did :-) (from what I have read till now). This is indeed good PR for self driving cars
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for highway is really not that high, in my country the police does not even bother with you till 160 kmh. (130 is legal limit)
Where is that? Where I live there is a 100km/h limit, and the local police sometimes post on social media when they ticket someone going 160km/h+. That said, 100km/h made sense in 1970, but now with the safety of modern cars, there's no reason that 130km/h shouldn't be the standard everywhere modern cars are prevalent.
as you can see 130kmh is used by most countryes in europe
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Relying on error-prone, distracted, slow humans to guide massive killing machines is playing Russian roulette. AI driving will no doubt be eventually better than the best human driver within a decade, in nearly all instances.
The glorification of tech/denigration of humans juxtaposition is getting old fast. This attitude may seem benign, but it's insidious, carries a hint of elitism, and spills over into labor, class, and other aspects of human life. Why can't we appreciate tech advances without devaluing people?
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Relying on error-prone, distracted, slow humans to guide massive killing machines is playing Russian roulette. AI driving will no doubt be eventually better than the best human driver within a decade, in nearly all instances.
The glorification of tech/denigration of humans juxtaposition is getting old fast. This attitude may seem benign, but it's insidious, carries a hint of elitism, and spills over into labor, class, and other aspects of human life. Why can't we appreciate tech advances without devaluing people?
"Calculator" used to be a job performed exclusively by humans. Moving to mechanical & digital calculators didn't only require gains in efficiency, but also a recognition that this was a job humans were simply worse at than machines, so it was irresponsible to task a human with it.
Similarly self-driving cars can't simply be a nice thing to have, eventually we have to have the discussion that it's irresponsible to have human driven vehicles on the road.