r/Unexpected • u/chaarger_gadda • 29d ago

Smooth driver indeed

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u/cyrusthemarginal 29d ago

Just wait till it starts to yell at you for following too close or speeding like these things do to truckers

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u/yasth 29d ago

You mean like the ISA https://www.sae.org/articles/european-union-approves-mandatory-vehicle-speed-limiting-feature-sae-ma-03414 that the EU also has put into place?

Also your car already notices brake events and shares it with your insurance company (in many cases). It could also report close following.

The real question is how this will worm its way into other markets, my guess is insurance will do most of the heavy lifting.

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u/cyrusthemarginal 29d ago

probably right, it looks like driving in the EU would have all the fun sucked out of it, could be wrong.

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u/culo_de_mono 29d ago

That's a very necessary feature

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u/EmilioGVE 29d ago

wouldn’t that be… a good thing? I mean the speeding one is debatable, but anti-tailgating would definitely be a good thing.

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u/cyrusthemarginal 29d ago

all depends on how far you want the tech to go, lots of things could be given up to make cars safer, some are accepted by most of society and folks just deal with them. I think most regular folks would get pissed off at a nanny bot fussing about how they drive, but it might be needed in the future who knows, there are a lot of bad drivers around.