BMF News December

[Jaws]

Automated car tests to include bikes

Massive ‘Barn Find’ Comes To UK

Are Hybrids the answer?...

 

[Cougar377]

I've never been convinced that the collision avoidance technology in automated cars is anywhere near mature enough to be let loose on the public.
The spec for vehicles currently on sale should include successful detection and avoidance of ANYTHING smaller than a city car.... so that would be motorcycles, pushbikes, prams, mobility scooters, granny walking her dog, granny's dog, etc.

I'll leave off escooters as anyone riding those on the road is in a Darwinian cul-de-sac and is fair game.

 

[ogr1]

They should bin this auto collision crap
Toot bloody sweet. If you can't judge the road and conditions you should surrender your feckin license.

 

[derek kelly]

They should bin this auto collision crap
Toot bloody sweet. If you can't judge the road and conditions you should surrender your feckin license.

My AEB saved an old fella that pulled straight across in front of me

 

[andyBeaker]

They should bin this auto collision crap
Toot bloody sweet. If you can't judge the road and conditions you should surrender your feckin license.

I am all for it….twice the car has reacted before me, both occasions there was eff all I could do about what was happening. It does happen you know - twice in 45 years for me, both within about a year of each other.

 

[Lee337]

The problem is the more automation a car has the less likely a driver is to fully concentrate on driving & what's going on around them. Many drivers defer full control to their vehicle, thinking the car will always get them out of a dangerous situation.

 

[andyBeaker]

The problem is the more automation a car has the less likely a driver is to fully concentrate on driving & what's going on around them. Many drivers defer full control to their vehicle, thinking the car will always get them out of a dangerous situation.

I’m not sure I agree on that…my motor is loaded with automation that particularly comes into play on the motorway…I honestly don’t think it has reduced my concentration levels at all.

A less than attentive driver will always be a less than attentive driver whatever they are driving.

Fully automated driving is on the way…but it will only be successful if everyone is doing it!

 

[sr71caspar]

Too many old people who need to give up driving due to slow reactions and poor eyesight, will rely too much on this technology and continue to be a danger to other road users.

I bet there are a few on here that had difficulty in getting aging parents to accept relinquishing their driving licences.

I'll also bet there are a few on here who are now aging parents themselves.

I feel sorry for their kids.

 

[Squag1]

ABS on the BMW saved me from T boning a geriatric who decided that the red light was really green.

After driving 120 miles I was about 2 miles from home when it happened.

 

[johnboy]

I've always told myself that when I cannot pass the Rospa test at bronze level then it is time to give up my licence, I hope I can keep true to that.

 

[andyBeaker]

As confirmation of how useful automation can be…I left home in the dark this morning…….amazing how many people didn’t have their lights on as it was starting to get light. Proper cars wouldn’t allow that to happen.


Daft thing is as most cars now have digital dashboards it isn’t be obvious to the driver that their lights aren’t on…in the good old days of dials and pointy Things with little bulbs behind them it would. Eventually.

 

[Squag1]

Getting them to remember to turn off fog lights is the bigger problem

 

[ogr1]

The more they make idiot proof cars, then more idiots will drive them, therefore making the roads more dangerous. Its counter productive.

 

[andyBeaker]

The more they make idiot proof cars, then more idiots will drive them, therefore making the roads more dangerous. Its counter productive.

An idiot is an idiot.

Fact.