Commercial airliners have had a form of an autopilot and other pilot assist technologies for decades and until recently suffered crashes fairly routinely. Now that technology has made airline disasters almost unheard of. Good thing the aviation industry didn’t take your advice.

Here’s the funny thing. It’s a requirment to pay attention with EVERY highly automated vehicle. I’ve worked onboard ships for more than a few years and at NO point underway is someone not on the bridge on lookout even when the ship is sailing on autopilot. It’s the same with us in engineering; monitoring the engine…

Alright, stop driving distracted using the fancy cruise control.

“Co-pilot” is actually a much worse name. A co-pilot is just as capable as the pilot, just usually slightly less experienced. An autopilot requires constant monitoring. A co-pilot does not.

Well the the rest figured that out and that’s why this rare event is newsworthy.

I mean, a plane’s auto-pilot still requires the pilot to pay attention. The name checks out fine, in my opinion.

Or hire them.

Auto braking is independent of Autopilot and can be turned off also, but auto braking is not 100% accurate and is tuned to avoid false positives. There will be no automaker out there who would claim they can avoid all accidents with auto braking and all of their manuals are filled full of disclaimers about limitations…

Well then why would he be so chill at that very spot?

Then don’t use it?

If this is true I’m trying to imagine of why anyone would entrust the vehicle in that spot if there was multiple encounters with issues.

Officer: “Do you know why I pulled you over?”

Jesus took the wheel, and apparently didn’t do that great a job of it.

You get ALL the credit for practicing incredible restraint in your reply to eolith. Mad respect.

Show me one of these pictures, please? And keep in mind, we’re not talking about the location of reverse here. You may want to look at that picture again.

As long as it doesn’t put other people or property at risk. It sure looks like there would be a risk of these things sticking out so far to unintentionally clip a pedestrian or motorcycle. I know if I were on a bike I would not like being near one of these in traffic.

Every single time someone comes up with a new, unsafe and stupid mod defenders are quick to point out its legality. Just because laws haven’t caught up doesn’t make them legal. Typically regulations involve a set of conditions. The main reason certain things get specifically called out is because of those…

And it can hover! Look at those anti-gravity thrusters angled down from the rear of the car.

I live in Houston and didn’t know what the fuck a slab was, i’m from Australia and a slab is what you call a carton of beer, this is a gross miscarriage of justice for something so high and mighty to be compared to a couple of dickheads and their silly wheels, so now that i do know what these wankers call their…

My problem with this is that the widest component of the vehicle is rotating with the same angular speed as the wheel. On a duallie the widest part (excluding mirrors) is typically within the fender of the truck. Maybe I’m an old man now but damn that seems dangerous and stupid.