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[-] fubarx@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Most EVs with driver's assist have sensors to detect other cars, curbs, and lanes. Wonder if they could also be trained to detect bicyclists or pedestrians and play sounds (in addition to slowing down).

[-] tazeycrazy@feddit.uk 3 points 1 week ago

Some of these tools are being used to supplement drivers lack of skill. All manules tell drivers of EVs to be aware that pedestrians may not realise you are there. I don't know many they follow that guidance.

[-] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

It's the frustrating thing with adding safety features to almost anything.

You add a thing to make something safer under normal conditions by catching the edge cases and mistakes.
People treat a safety feature as a quality of life feature and stop paying as much attention.
Nothing changes unless your change is non-obvious (my car will increase how much brake a certain depression of the pedal implies based on how imminent it thinks an impact is. If it thinks you need to brake, and you confirm that by hitting the brakes, it'll say "cool, lemme just adjust the force per the radar then"), or the lazy approach is just legitimately safer (backing up a car while staring at a backup camera is still safer than only looking at the rearview mirror. Both are wrong, but the easier wrong is still safer).

Ultimately, people will use as much effort as they feel is justified for a safety budget. If you make it harder and safer people won't use it, and if the easier outpaces the safety they won't keep doing both since it's not safety driving the choice.

With power tools adding safety features makes people a little more cavalier, but it's their safety vs their convenience.
With a car, it's my convenience versus your "bone integrity", which is why it so often results in people acting extra shitty.

[-] BCsven@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

I doubt most people read the manual. And with all the assist tools it almost takes aware the fear of making misrakes the bad drivers should have.

[-] protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 week ago

impossible, the people investing in those are in car centric USA, the people testing them are in the USA, the people interested in it are in USA

no one in the chain cares, nothing will change

this post was submitted on 12 Oct 2026
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