“That’s something the engineers should’ve figured out a while ago.”

My guess is they have an issue far back in the design process. A lack of FMEA or doing it in such a way that over-estimates the drivers taking over from the automation reducing the scores.

The problem with applying that “just world” idea to this situation is that some of the same people who blame the driver with Tesla would crucify Ford or GM for selling something that was sub-par. It’s not really that the victim deserved it but their ideas about the corporate entities. Others also feel that drivers…

I am simply pointing out there are conditions where something the size of a semi-tractor-trailer is difficult to see. I’ve encountered it more than once in my life. Dark, unlit road, reflectors only on the side of the trailer, dark colored trailer, usually a flat bed.

Texting and drinking are external to the design of the automobile.

Flatbed trailers are rarely white.

What is with assuming an argument for me in the form of a question? I made no such arguments.

If you designed automatic lights that didn’t work automatically some of the time and required the driver’s attention as if he were driving a car with lights that required the knob was pulled or turned the design should not…

Are you arguing the reptilians and the greys should rule the Earth?

yep. There are ones to reduce drag although I think in the USA there’s often nothing structural behind them to stop a car.

I was giving design advice. Dumbing down systems builds better idiots and that needs to be considered. The customer is always right and he is often a lazy moron.

Blaming the user even if he is one thousand percent at fault generally gets a bad reaction. This is why it doesn’t matter much what the customer did or didn’t…

On a dark enough road with a dark colored truck and trailer, when the side reflectors don’t catch the light they aren’t so easy to pick up. A barely attentive or non-attentive driver of any sort of car could miss one until it was too late if he was moving fast enough and the truck slow enough.

“The primary factor here is that because of the high floor of the trailer”

“think genuinely autonomous cars have extensive potential to solve many problems such as drunk driving and providing freedom of movement to the disabled and elderly.”

“I don’t understand why people are blaming tesla. Autopilot didn’t kill him, his inability to look where he was going did.”

Sadly it’s not.

It comes from the Landau top which was inspired by the Landau type of carriage which was named after the place where they were first made...

It’s a question of if they are less polluting then the alternatives and those vehicles presently being used in those places and they are.

No they are not. They are early 2000s or late 1990s good at the very very worst.

I think there is absolutely no way that letting the cars run the rest of their useful lives as is exceeds the environmental cost of building replacements. It wasn’t that long ago that these cheating cars were considered perfectly acceptable in their emissions performance.

It’s just how government people and control freaks think. The same sort of people are outraged that “totaled” flood damaged cars from the USA end up in places like Africa. They think the cars should have been crushed because they were declared too broken. The same sort of people came up with cash for clunkers…

It’s not about the environment. It hasn’t been for a long time now.

These cars could do the environment and people in much of the world a lot of good. Fedgov could take all the revenue from the sales but it won’t even consider that because that’s not how the people running things think and the last thing they want is…