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ceejayoz • last Friday at 11:32 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Some safety features are so flawed they're not actually safety features.

Like this one. No one's using this for crash mitigation.


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carlosjobim • yesterday at 12:36 PM

And no one was using AI for serious work a few years ago. Technology develops and moves forward. Practically every new car and motorcycle today has safety features which depend on computers. And they function in practice.

Trucks all have pneumatic brakes and an air compressor on-board. So that part is nothing new. A system of air jets could possibly be implemented as a correcting measure if a truck is overturning. There's no AI needed for the truck to know it's about to overturn. And trucks overturning are also some of the most serious and most dangerous common accidents in traffic.

But self proclaimed "hackers" are too busy with LMFAOing and LOLing at any suggestion or speculation on how technology could be useful in practice.

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