Pedestrian automatic emergency braking (AEB), which may become mandatory on U.S. cars in the future, tends to not perform well in the dark.

Drivers Tend To Kill Pedestrians At Night. Thermal Imaging May Help.::Pedestrian automatic emergency braking (AEB), which may become mandatory on U.S. cars in the future, tends to not perform well in the dark.

  • FlyingostrichEnglish
    134·
    7 months ago

    That only works in more urban areas.

    Its impossible to covered every road in lights and it can get very dark when you are far away from a city. Same with public transit. I am all for it, but it’s only reasonable in more densely populated areas. There just won’t be enough people using it in th middle of nowhere to just something like that much less staff it.

    Meanwhile helping cars see people even in those less common and more difficult situations is a good thing. Why would you NOT want your car to be safer for others around you?

    • Landsharkgun@midwest.socialEnglish
      6·
      7 months ago

      80% of the US population, and about half of the world population, lives in urban areas.

      By 2050, those figures will be 90% and 75%, respectively.

      Planning better urban areas won’t help everyone, but it will help the supermajority.

    • deur@feddit.nlEnglish
      62·
      7 months ago

      Awww shit bois the huge country with plenty of money cannot afford to do it

      • Alexstarfire@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        7 months ago

        IMO, I don’t think it matters whether we can or can’t. I don’t think we should even if we could. Light pollution from cities is bad enough. Adding that many more lights would make it so much worse.

        • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
          21·
          7 months ago

          Imagine how much less light pollution there would be without all the cars…

    • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
      3·
      7 months ago

      Where do you think people lived during westward expansion when every town was connected by rail? There weren’t too many urban places out there.

      It’s a myth that it only works for urban areas. Switzerland has their trains travel to basically every town on time and frequently, and those towns in the alps are sure as hell a lot harder to reach than whatever rural place you’re thinking of. Admittedly, getting from the station to your destination will be harder without a car until things are built or changed to replace car dependence, but car dependence was manufactured, not intrinsic.