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Originally Posted by sureLoss
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.
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Volvo is developing what they call an crash free car but it also isn't driverless. It will be a combo of the current systems, road edge warnings/corrections, keep track of all cars and things around the car, adaptive cruise control, vehicle to vehicle communication etc. Essentially all the things that in current cars in bits and pieces but as part of one entire system. It is expected to be on the roads around 2020.
And you are correct. The detection system is not intended for the driver to be able to drive more distracted than we already are. It's an attempt to take a good chunk the inevitable human error out of things (driver and pedestrian/cyclist) and to take the reaction time out of things. Note that the current detection system only works at town road speed as well (below 30 mph). It isn't going to do anything for you if something large enough jumps out at you while you are going 70 mph. At least not in current models.
And as my post a couple pages back said....it works. And works well.