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by car_analogy 1450 days ago
> If it detects that the driver is speeding it can perform one of four actions: send out a visual or acoustic warning (like a warning message in the instrument cluster or a chime), emit a series of vibrations (likely through the steering wheel), provide haptic feedback through the accelerator pedal, or automatically slow the car down to the posted limit. Carmakers are free to choose how the system they adopt reacts.

While the main issue is forcing items we own to disobey us and instead answer to a different master, I'd like to point out that all the proposed actions are either distractions when one should be focusing on the road, or a dangerous override of user inputs (will it slow down when you're trying to overtake or merge into traffic?)
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slezyr 1450 days ago
Eh... Apart from messing with input, I like it. Sometimes, it's hard to notice when the "city", "village" starts and reduce your speed. Our highways sometimes might pass through the small cities. It's european thing. It's in my interest not to speed there. Usually, only OpenStreetMaps(OsmAnd) helps me see when the city starts.
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rad_gruchalski 1449 days ago
And none of the systems enforcing this will be able to give you better info than your own eyes. As in, they will not solve the problem you describe.

So many times the cars with these smart assistants either:

- get triggered by a wrong sign; for example off-ramp having different speed limit than main road and the car picking up the sign on the off-ramp

- don’t see an actual sign, especially in the tight bends

- have no clue that a speed limit is enforced at specific times only

- the biggest danger: poor visibility, especially in heavy rain

I very much like having a reference speed limit in front of me, especially on a HUD. I also very much like a speed limiter. But a car not obeying inputs of the driver, that’s a bit too far. I’m the driver, I can see what the speed limit is, the car thinks it knows but in many cases, it’s plain wrong. Automatic braking will be very dangerous.

I wonder how many tesla-style accidents we’re going to witness caused by those automatically slowing down systems.

Frankly, I very much look forward to when a speed limit of 120kph gets introduced in Germany and the day after it’s introduced it will be „dangerous to speed” while people were driving much faster for decades…

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