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

[Marghanita da Cruz]

yesterday I did a very long drive in the pouring rain to  the hawkesbury.

the road was barely two way in some places and had potholes, repaired or 
newly created.

I drove to what I believed were road conditions and only got lights 
flashed and honking from one driver.

would have loved a self driving car to have delivered the passenger 
instead of me coping with the treacherous drive.

On 5/10/22 17:01, Kim Holburn wrote:
>
> On 2022/10/5 3:42 pm, David wrote:
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>> 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.
> Since many cars don't have this technology, it's effectively switched 
> off, so I don't see the legal argument holds water.
>>>> 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.
>
> I depend on the technology of every car I've ever driven to get me out 
> of the essentially unsafe practice of driving at speeds that could 
> easily kill me, ie speeds over 60 kmh.
>
> >In that case you'd be depending on the technology to get you out of 
> the essentially unsafe practice of tailgating.
>
> I'm using it to do something I wouldn't be comfortable doing without 
> the additional, and I might add, legal and registered, technology.
>
> >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,
>
> It has many adjustments I can make to adapt it to different 
> circumstances.  Just like I drive differently under different 
> circumstances.  It's just another technology in a vehicle built with 
> many different technologies and controlled and driven with many 
> technologies.
>
>
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Marghanita da Cruz
Telephone: 0414-869202
Email:  marghanita at ramin.com.au
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