I Can't Believe It's Not Zero!Mar 9
Had a Tesla come close enough to me (as a pedestrian) to trigger its emergency braking system today. Honest question: if we can have these fancy emergency braking systems, why can’t we have “just prevent the car from going 40mph into a crosswalk in a 25mph zone with stopped traffic in the other lane?”
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@steve I’ve been wondering for quite a while when we are going to have that. Ie the car proactively disallowing you to go faster than the speed limit rather than just giving you the annoying beep.
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Show threadI Can't Believe It's Not Zero!Mar 9
@helge I don’t really care if people want to speed outside of town, but this was right downtown in an objectively very dangerous situation.
Show threadI Can't Believe It's Not Zero!Mar 9
@helge I settled for the low tech option of yelling at them and throwing a snowball at the car. 😂
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@steve Snowball? 🙄
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@helge @steve takes only one snowball with a brick inside of it to get them to take all snowballs more seriously
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@joe @steve You’d wish …