Groupthink

Posted Sep 17, 2025 14:54 UTC (Wed) by pizza (subscriber, #46)
In reply to: Groupthink by Wol
Parent article: Fighting human trafficking with self-contained applications

> How on earth is he supposed to do that if his car accelerates unexpectedly without any driver input whatsoever? And he has no way to over-ride other than to turn the whole damn thing off? Or equally the car brakes unexpectedly on a motorway without any driver input whatsoever?

You reveal a fundamental misunderstanding of what "adaptive cruise control" actually refers to:

https://mycardoeswhat.org/deeper-learning/adaptive-cruise...

> Classic feature creep where nobody actually does a risk assessment on each individual creep until we have a major accident ...

On the contrary, the regulatory bodies have done _exhaustive_ assessments (including multiple rounds of public comments) to establish the operational requirements for these systems, and after being widely deployed for the better part of a decade data unequivocably shows them to be objectively safer (ie lower accident rate per distance driven).

...I'll leave it at that.

Groupthink

Posted Sep 17, 2025 18:31 UTC (Wed) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

Whoops - I'm describing predictive cruise control.

But unfortunately, my car provides no way to have one without the other :-(

Cheers,
Wol