Fak! No time for a 16 minute video. I’m perfectly capable of reading, though...

Meh. Used the pawl for 10+ years and 150k+ miles on my 99 Silverado and never had any problems. Even used it to hold back a few heavy trailers (campers, ATV trailers) as well as holding trailers stationary while loading/unloading cargo (skid steers and the like). Never once used the parking brake in the entire time I…

I’d call it a guilty pleasure but there’s no guilt. This version of Gone beats the hell out of the first two FnF flicks all day.

Ah yes. Car enthusiasts. If car makers build SUVs then they are derided for not building pure performance sedans. If they build performance sedans than they are derided for not building anything with utility. And then the enthusiast goes and buys a Ford Fucking Fiesta.

i’m split on this.

I wonder what the driver was watching that was so much more important than doing what is an easy ass job.

A human would have killed the pedestrian because they couldn’t see her in time.

The sensors have multispectral cameras (near-infra-red and visible light), lidar and radar. They would have seen her heat signature, the radar would have had a bounceback and the lidar would have mapped her. This was a failure of every single system.

Could it have completely avoided an accident? Maybe not, but by all accounts it appears to have hit her at full speed. Even a human watching that road would have done some level of breaking before hitting her. That didn’t happen because the guy did what most people do when given semi-autonomous cars, which is stop…

Yeah based on the words from the sheriff yesterday I assumed there really was no way for the system to have reacted in time, but the video seems to indicate otherwise. It shouldn’t have had any issues seeing this person.

Let me preface this by saying I’m sure they will have no trouble selling every last one of those 500 available. Having said that...

I bet the same question was asked when we moved from the horse to the car, or the car to the plane

Never mind the elderly, I’d rather share the road with the average AV than the average driver.

You say that, but I’d much rather share the road with “average“ autonomous cars than their below-average owners (ex: elderly people).

that it crashed doesn’t say that it’s not better than a human driver. It just says that it’s not impossible to have an accident.

10 people are killed every 1 billion driven miles. That includes occupants of vehicles, too. That’s 1 death every 100 million.

I’m guessing it’s just the opposite. I’m guessing that the fatality rate for autonomous vehicles is just a fraction of that for human controlled ones.

Buddy, I already have Vibranium-powered flying cars and I have no need for primitive internal combustion and electric runabouts and I will buy whatever toy I damn well please. Now, unless you drive a Brown-Manual-Diesel-Miata-Wagon you can GTFO of here with your gatekeeping bullshit.

The fact that you can mow down a hapless pedestrian who wasn’t prepared for a footlong cry for attention sticking out of a passing car’s wheel.

If only we had a way to document solar activity and climate record for the past 100 years....