Fortnine has turned his analytical mind to a couple of accidents where motorcyclists were killed by being hit from behind by Teslas:
https://youtu.be/yRdzIs4FJJg
https://youtu.be/yRdzIs4FJJg
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Interesting Wes. I never thought about the difference between and overturned truck and an overpass to AI. Also more features allow folks to not pay attention thinking the car will save them. -
The new X5 we bought has a couple of safety features for its autonomous driving. I requires you to keep your hands on the wheel and it has a driver camera that watches your eyes to make sure you're paying attention to the road ahead. I've tested it and it starts with a warning flashing red lights on the steering wheel and display before it turns off forcing you to get engaged in the drive. One day I was bopping my head around to the music and the car thought I was nodding off and starting trying to wake me up by turning up the AC and the music
These cars are getting pretty creepy if you ask me. I can say "Hey BMW, I'm feeling tired." The car will open the sun roof, turn up the AC, set the stereo to a rock station and change the interior lighting to red accents. I can then tell it that I'l awake and it'll reverse all that.
Scary stuff about getting rear ended by a Tesla. I think most cars use radar for avoiding that but apparently not Teslas.Comment
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I wonder weather a large, reflective, 3D hologram on the back of the bike might increase AI visual awareness?Last edited by wildbears; 09-07-2022, 02:55 PM.Comment
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He goes into a brief description of seeing lights on the back of a motorcycle, low and appearing to be a car in the distance. I think this is one of the big reasons why drivers pull out in front of motorcycles as well. They see a single light and their brain falls into the automatic decision-making process that it is a car but far in the distance, giving them the sense that they can pull out and blam-o, motorcycle t-bone. Three lights in the front help with this but is not foolproof.
Kind of on a tangent, but read up on the illusory truth effect. While used mostly in the world of misinformation, it explains that a typical human makes 35k decisions a day and to help ease that burden takes shortcuts when deciding on issues that it has already seen. Hence, motorcycle is actually a car in the distance.
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