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Old 05-08-2012, 01:59 PM   #21
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Originally Posted by rd_aaron View Post
If you take out the delay of human reaction, it could definitely help reduce collisions. Instead of having about a second between reaction and actually pressing the brake, you're looking at microseconds. A second quicker response could save you about 14 meters of stopping distance if you're travelling at 50 km/h.

I just think there are too many variables in programming something like this to be completely self-automated. I think somewhere in between completely manual and completely automated is possible but I have trouble believing it would be safe for a legally blind person (as per the video in the OP) to be able to jump in the car every morning and let it do everything. Maybe it would be fine 99.9% of the time, but that 0.1% of the time might not end so pleasantly.

Here's an example of the 0.1%:
Are you saying that is worse than the way people drive now?

If you remove the idiot driver factor from the roads, I believe that you eliminate most if not all accidents that are not attributed to mechanical failure. Even then, a car that knows enough to drive itself, might also know enough to stop driving when something has, or is about to break.
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