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It matters to me as a pedestrian because drivers will become reliant on their AEB, and when it fails, they might run me over.



We better design these systems not to fail then. Seems obvious but I think that’s the solution to what you’re describing. Having an unreliable human as a backup is not going to do it because as you say, and I agree, humans will become reliant on it.

The systems are not reliable yet. Fortunately humans are not totally reliant on them yet either so humans are still effective as a safety backup.

The trick is to make sure the crossover point (when humans become so reliant that they are ineffective safety backups) comes after the system becomes highly reliable. Unfortunately humans are already unreliable to begin with even without AEB, so we are just going to deal with a few incidents from autos, both those without AEB, and, until it becomes perfect, those with AEB.


> We better design these systems not to fail then

Too late, we're commenting on an article about them failing in common scenarios.


But we're not done designing them. This is an ongoing project.




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