Drivers Tend To Kill Pedestrians At Night. Thermal Imaging May Help. - eviltoast

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.

  • HeneryHawk@thelemmy.club
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    1 year ago

    My parents gotba relatively new Merc and I’d to turn that auto braking off. Its far too sensitive and nearly had me rear ended driving around a bend. My guess is its picking up the retroreflective spots on the markings as there usually isn’t a car on that bend but the Merc is beeping at me like I’m about to be in a collision

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      1 year ago

      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.

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        1 year ago

        They are a great example of how far away we are from automation in many spaces.

        The auto-cruise control barely works right for me, the lane assist complains constantly because I don’t hang on the steering wheel like an ape as most people do. And don’t get me started about the auto-brake system that tries to stop when the lane next to me slows down, on an interstate.

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        1 year ago

        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)

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          1 year ago

          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.

          • HeneryHawk@thelemmy.club
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            1 year ago

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

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              1 year 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).