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by likeabatterycar 529 days ago
I didn't say pull the hand brake at 60mph.

There should be an emergency "pull over and stop gracefully" button.

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They do. I'm guessing there was a bug in finding a place to safely pull over?
Sounds likely, in which case there needs to be a much more "break glass in case of emergency" control which gradually lowers the maximum speed cap of the vehicle.

So even if the vision/pathfinding believes there is nowhere to park and nowhere else to turn, it will still coast to a stop in a way that is not inherently less-safe than a more-normal car running out of gas and stalling on the road.