Comment by ceejayoz
1 day ago
> Do the air bags in your car go off at random while you're in traffic?
https://www.nhtsa.gov/air-bags/deadly-air-bag-replacements
"After the air bags were replaced and the vehicle was involved in a crash, the air bag inflators malfunctioned and ruptured, sending large metal fragments into drivers’ chests, necks, eyes and faces, leading to death or severe injury."
So yes, safety features sometimes have flaws.
> If not, then why do you think a system using these jets to avoid accidents would?
For starters, airbags are reactive to an impact, not predictive in anticipation of it.
"We're going to crash" is harder to assess than "hey a crumple sensor in the front bumper just got wiped out".
(The airbag is also deeply unlikely to obliterate a different car, pedestrian, or bike during deployment. They're simply not comparable to a rocket engine on the outside of the car!)
Safety features sometimes have flaws? Sure. That's a big difference in argument now, though.
Some safety features are so flawed they're not actually safety features.
Like this one. No one's using this for crash mitigation.
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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