RE: MIT researchers develop intelligent co-pilot system to avoid road hazards

gervasi — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 18:02:35 GMT

If you started out not having cars and suggested the idea that the average person would pilot his own 1000kg vehicle at 100kph on a daily basis, the idea would seem crazy. With everyone doing this, some people are bound to drive while tired, stressed, distracted, having a medical problem, and the idea would result in 100 deaths per day in the US. That's where we are. It's a crazy system. It's only a matter of time before technology like this replaces reliance on human drivers.

The stupidest part of this system, IMHO, is to set speed limits and then have human being shoot radar to try to catch people violating them. It's much easier to require some sort of hardware to monitor speed. Such technology could be abused, but so can a policy that allows police officers to mostly tolerate some traffic violations but gives them the authority to question and briefly search anyone violating the traffice laws. I don't have the perfect system, but relying on drivers and policing them manually with human beings in squad cars seems assinine to me.

RE: MIT researchers develop intelligent co-pilot system to avoid road hazards

DAB — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 19:29:49 GMT

Sadly, we do need to install these devices in our vehicles.

Too many people allow trivial items to distract them from driving with their full attention, resulting in needless accidents and deaths.

If the embedded software can save just one life, it will be worth the expense. Plus I would make it mandatory for anyone who has caused an accident. A lot of people just cannot be trusted to drive correctly.

Just my Opinion,

DAB