[LINK] Creating safer self-driving e-vehicle road lanes?

[David]

On 5/10/22 14:48, Kim Holburn wrote:
> On 2022/10/5 11:57 am, David wrote:
>> But it had to be disabled every time vehicle was started, perhaps in 
>> part for very sound legal reasons. 
> ???  Which were?
If a driver "intentionally" disables the system when they start the car, 
then that particular driver accepts legal responsibility for so doing 
because the system resets when the car is switched off.

>> However lane-keeping, automatic-braking, and similar technology in a 
>> domestic car is intended to compensate for unsafe drivers who fall 
>> asleep, tailgate, and so on.
> There may be technologies that might compensate for unsafe drivers who 
> fall asleep, but these aren't them.
I badly worded that.  I had in mind a driver who micro-sleeps but is 
woken up when the car brakes because it's getting to close to the one in 
front.

> My car has adaptive cruise control that allows me to "tailgate" 
> relatively safely.  Is this a good thing?
In that case you'd be depending on the technology to get you out of the 
essentially unsafe practice of tailgating.  It would be interesting to 
know whether it would stop you safely should the car in front be doing 
the same thing but without the technology, and you're all on a greasy 
road.  I'm not a lawyer, but I doubt the Judge would think the 
technology was relevant.

David Lochrin