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Old 05-27-2015, 04:01 PM   #44
Wormius
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Originally Posted by sureLoss View Post
From the sounds of it the guy driving the car thought he had a pedestrian detection feature in his car. He thought that the car would detect the people in front and the system would take over and stop the car.

According to Volvo, that particular car did not have the pedestrian detection system installed. It costs an extra $3000.
The pedestrian avoidance feature would probably be an additional $5000 on top of that.

Why does it need pedestrian detection though? I would think the most basic feature of a self-driving car would be an 'anything-directly-in-front-of-the-car-detector'.
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