Terrorist attack in Barcelona, 13 deaths

[Dallinor]

TallSilhouette said:

Dallinor said:

Whoa, I like the idea, but that would have so many problems.

Imagine a person walking on to a motorway in that scenario.

Or people learning the break distance and simply walking across roads at anytime/point potenially causing a litany of other accidents.

An outside influence that can force stop a tonne of fast moving metal is not nessecarily going to make things safer.

Many luxury vehicles already have this feature (Teslas, for example). They're not perfect, but they haven't been a problem yet and have saved several lives.

Sure, but the fraction of cars with this feature is currently tiny. I'm envisoning a scenario with a huge number of these vehicles on roads, and how pedestrians will co-exist. Don't underestimate human stupidity and a willingness to mess with new technology.

There's already plenty of documented cases of human drivers deliberately driving in front of tesla vehicles aware of the knowledge that they will have to emergency force break. 

I think it will work well the more advanced AI becomes (20 years from now maybe) but, I can definitely imagine some teething pains.