Comment on Tesla Cybertruck's stiff structure, sharp design raise safety concerns - experts

• MrSpArkle@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is not true.

  Anti collision systems of various sorts have been around for over a decade. The problem space is minuscule compared to self driving, and almost all car manufacturers offer both forward and reverse collision detection at this point.

  In fact I think EU is making it a requirement soon.

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  • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Detecting a pedestrian where you would want to lower the front vs say a deer or moose (or other vehicle for that matter) where you don’t want to lower it is more complicated.

    Better to just not build the vehicle out of sharp polygons like it needs to be rendered on a Super Nintendo with FX chip.

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    • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You could only enable the lowering in pedestrian heavy areas (city) assuming they legit can’t tell a moose apart.

      You aren’t going to find many moose in downtown NYC ;)

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  • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Any car with AEB has this capability which is a lot of cars ya.

    I don’t know how fast they can lower the vehicle though? There isn’t a lot of time between when AEB kicks off to slow you down and the accident.

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