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Automatic braking systems save lives. Now they’ll need to work at 62 MPH

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32 points LinuxBender | 1 comments | 20 Nov 24 15:16 UTC | HN request time: 0.238s | source
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techdmn ◴[20 Nov 24 15:35 UTC] No.42194803[source]▶
I have a Tesla with AEB that drives me up the wall. I'm often driving in heavy traffic, and occasionally need to quickly, but smoothly, stop within a few feet of the vehicle ahead. My car decides I'm cutting it too close, engages full automatic braking, jerking the car to sudden stop with a 10 foot gap. Sometimes the vehicle ahead will even start moving before my car is stopped, but it has decided to stop and stop it shall. Cannot override even by flooring the accelerator. I miss cars that did what they were told, when they were told to do it. For the record I've never rear-ended anyone.
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1. kkfx ◴[20 Nov 24 20:41 UTC] No.42197888[source]▶
I have experienced some phantom/exaggerated auto-breaks but not so annoying/dangerous, while I have experienced another problem: parking. While I'm not leaving anymore in cities when I go there here in EU space is damn tight so it's pretty normal having to near-touching someone else bumper to been able to park, and well, an EV already tend to accelerate a bit too quickly for such maneuvering, the automatic break blocking the car too far from others it's a nightmare sometimes, could be disabled but re-enable itself so well... It's very annoying.