Automatic Emergency Braking coming to Mirage

[flatbroke]

will be standard by 2022. Hopefully we can live until then. A great safety feature...http://www.nhtsa.gov/About+NHTSA/Pre...n-aeb-03172016

[IchabodCrane]

I already have that on my Mirage.
It's called my right foot. This amazing tool coupled with attention to the job of driving and years of experience doing things right has the uncanny ability to brake when necessary even without thinking about it.
Having auto braking as a mandatory feature simply enables those who put no thought and effort into the task of driving. This does not make highways safer it just allows more people with underdeveloped skills out on the roads to kill the rest of us.

[Eggman]

I already have that on my Mirage.
It's called my right foot. This amazing tool coupled with attention to the job of driving and years of experience doing things right has the uncanny ability to brake when necessary even without thinking about it.
Having auto braking as a mandatory feature simply enables those who put no thought and effort into the task of driving. This does not make highways safer it just allows more people with underdeveloped skills out on the roads to kill the rest of us.

Interestingly, I've heard that Your Right Foot can also better anticipate developing traffic situations better than some electronic sensor.

But that's just hearsay...


You gotta admit the technology available is pretty amazing.

[Cobrajet]

All this kind of tech does is make it easier for dumbasses to stare at Facebook while driving.

[Eggman]

The insurance companies are gonna love this.

[flatbroke]

A good read...http://asirt.org/initiatives/informi...ash-statistics

[inuvik]

It will be awesome to watch all the YouTube idiots blasting towards a wall to "demonstrate" their automatic emergency braking and plowing straight into it.

[flatbroke]

It will be awesome to watch all the YouTube idiots blasting towards a wall to "demonstrate" their automatic emergency braking and plowing straight into it.

You mean like this?..https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNi17YLnZpg

[IchabodCrane]

The insurance companies are gonna love this.

They should. They're responsible for forcing it on us.

[flatbroke]

They should. They're responsible for forcing it on us.

Man I hate it when they force safety stuff on us. You know, like seat belts, air bags, all that crap that saves lives.