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Originally Posted by Wormius
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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To be clear, according to Volvo this isn't a self-driving car.
This is a car that some idiots thought had a pedestrian detection feature, which is an optional safety feature Volvo offers in its cars. The car is NOT a self driving car. It looks like the driver was trying to show off a feature the car never had to these people by driving the car directly at them.
The pedestrian detection feature is a safety feature that removes human reaction time out of stopping the car if a pedestrian/another car/etc were to suddenly appear in front of the car. It is not intended to be used as a feature that allows you to pay less attention on the road or self drives the car.