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by PinguTS 3013 days ago
Almost all current assitance systems in luxury cars, which are not design for automated driving, could have avoided this situation with activation of the emergency brake. But this car didn't even brake at all?

It will be interesting when Volvo pulls back from that relationship, because even the uptodate emergency brake assistent should have catched up. Except Uber as deactivated those in favor for their own technology (because it is superior).

EDIT: German Automotive Club did tested full sized cars in 2016, which means decaded old technology in IT. The results where that the Subaru Outback was the only one detecting persons in the dark. But was very poor with biclysts. https://www.adac.de/infotestrat/tests/assistenzsysteme/fussg...

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I think a lot of us are of the opinion that it wasn´t as dark as the camera makes it look. But let´s say it was... a human driver under those conditions would have full beam headlights on, and I´ve never personally experienced any issues spotting cyclists and dark clad pedestrians with those on.