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Drivers Tend To Kill Pedestrians At Night. Thermal Imaging May Help. (www.forbes.com)
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Drivers Tend To Kill Pedestrians At Night. Thermal Imaging May Help.::Pedestrian automatic emergency braking (AEB), which may become mandatory on U.S. cars in the future, tends to not perform well in the dark.

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[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Remember when Biden said that pedestrian could use beacons to alert autonomous cars of their location?

[–] paultimate14@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No I don't remember that. Any chance you have a link?

I remember Tesla fanboys crying when Biden appointed Cummings to the NHTSA, but I can't think of anything else connecting Biden to self-driving cars.

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] paultimate14@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Ah see this is the problem with political discussion. It turns out he never actually said that.

According to the article, one tiny piece of the $1.2 trillion dollar infrastructure bill he signed committed two federal agencies to be conduct a study on that as a potential solution.

The Forbes article editorializes that significantly to say that beaconing has received the "federal stamp of approval".

It's like a kid asking their parents for McDonalds for hours and the parent says "I'll think about it".