Every 88 minutes in the U.S. another pedestrian is killed in a traffic accident. Safety advocates are excited about technology that can help prevent such crashes but new testing indicates it could be a long road.
Is the automatic braking system fully sending its task of braking or it WON'T perform its task of braking? I feel like the last line should say, "Automatic braking system: Ight imma head out"
To be fair pedestrians at night seem like they want to be hit. They always seem to always be dressed in all black non reflective clothing. I had a guy wearing all black riding an all black bicycle dart in front of me and the only reason I slammed on the brake was because of the single red reflector on the front of his bike.
"EVERY TIME a car (auto stop car) turned a corner, it hit the pedestrian." That's a 100% failure rate. Humans surely can do much better than that in avoid hitting pedestrians around the corner. The auto industry that touts the auto-stop feature as a life saving device may be causing more injuries and deaths inadvertently in such a scenario by causing auto stop car drivers to be less cautious when turning around a corner.
@@NONcomD You can. The only car you can see that had to SHARPLY TURN A CORNER before hitting the dummy was a Tesla. They literally put the aptest vehicle against the most difficult test. At that point, the person you hit is at fault because they didn't look both ways before walking into a roadway and the car didn't know it was being tested.
Bullshit, you know as well as I do, that after we take a 20mph impact, we would limp to the driver’s side, pull them out and beat their ass, in the snow, then limp to school uphill
People don't look left and right anymore. They believe they're the only ones in this world and cars have to stop for them automatically. Just go to the San Francisco area and you'll see what I mean.
@@chente8318 I agree although there are a select few places in the US where pedestrians don’t have to look at all. In Gatlinburg, TN, in the one mile stretch of downtown, it is a very serious violation to not yield to pedestrians. And possibly even jail time. Considering it is next to the smoky mountains, you can see why.
are you dumb? most of that accidents are from the rich countries! we in the 3rd world knows how to cross the streets. you people dont, thats why you need that kind of technologies. why do you need that kind of technology? its simple: if youre the driver, be attentive and if youre a pedestrian just look to your F*CKING left and right before crossing! idiots!
@@lmangayaay lol are u serious. the amount of times i've been to third world countries and see someone laying on the street dying from being hit by a car but nobody does anything cause they can't is sad. the only fact you hear about this in first world countries is because they actually get reported. in third world countries nobody cares to report these issues.
Kids are dumb and don't know much better, cuz they're dumb... Saftey systems give false senses of security, in situations, where drivers need to still be vigalent
@@Bee-tj8gc same as seat belts when they were first introduced accidents went up not down, becuase drivers thought seat belts made them safe so they drove more dangerously until people got used to having them. Doesn't mean we should go backwards and not have them...or this either.
@@AdonisGaming93 true, companies need to be more honest though or test more. thers too many videos of people eating and sleeping behind these self driving cars.
I actually hit a kid back in October at night going around 40. Was scared shitless as it happened and progressed but the kid was fine and walked away with some scrapes and a broken toe even though I flipped him on the side of my car as I braked. I laugh about it today and also seeing that part too because it reminds me of the kid. He actually wished me a speedy mental recovery after hitting him. LOL Freaking kid.
@@enriquevalencia678 I once drove up the street that leads to my house, when two small children on bikes came around a corner driving dead centre on the road they were so scared that they ended up crashing into each other as they tried to reach the sidewalk. I was going pretty slow so nothing happened but I just sat in my car laughing cause the way the looked at each other after crashing was just priceless. The Only thing that worried me was that they were headed in the direction of a 50km/h street and obviously had no awareness about traffic. Hope they made it.
@@Jerererere I hit a kid in October because he ran in the middle of the street for his ball. It was dark and the kid was coming from a hill. He went to the hospital but was discharged that same night with a broken toe and some road rash. Kid was cool about it. He was like 13 or 14.
My only concern is that it should be an *"extra help",* but people thinks that's a substitute of the driver's own attention. So they can keep looking at the smartphone while driving.
exactly this is driving me fucking nuts, people expect to be spoon fed safety when we have eyes and brains to use, no car would have to worry about braking too hard really quick unless the pedestrian fails to check both directions before crossing which is literally the easiest and first thing we learn when we're 5 if they still manage to forget it then I sure hope natural selection takes place
@@drippeeboye607 If you are driving even 35 mph with your foot on the brake, you won't be able to always stop before hitting someone that steps out into traffic... None of these scenarios in the video would've been the drivers fault legally.
No, design safer streets. NotJustBikes has some great videos related to this topic. For example: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Ra_0DgnJ1uQ.html
There’s a funny animation from cyanide and happiness where a girl is being chased by a murderer and she gets in her car and tries to kill him but the car automatically breaks and she gets killed
Automatic braking is something we can live without, and so many people will be pulled from their cars and beaten to death in riots when yeeting it through the crowd to escape is no longer an option.
@Jay Rozes Cars already record brake applications, it's easy to tell what was happening seconds before and during a crash. Look at Tiger Wood's latest "accident" it will only get easier to forensically dissect pre accident computer inputs. Unless the car burns that is.
Who would rely on those features anyway? Who would see a pedestrian and think "oh I don't have to brake I have the automatic braking system". Noone... Thats just stupid
Well, of course; you don't want to kill the guy, but sometimes you gotta give him a little love tap so he learns to get his dumb ass out of the street! XD
I don't know how it is in your country but in France the pedestrian has the priority. Of course we look both ways before crossing but it is the driver who needs to stop. Even if I don't check both sides before crossing if a driver hit me it is the driver who is responsible ( as long as i am crossing in a pedestrian crossing of course). A good driver should be able to stop at any pedestrian crossing at anytime
@@batardbreton7083 That is just about a "responsibility" for accidents. Easier way to reduce accidents is not changed. Driver should obey rules and also pedestrians should obey rules.
@@daiaki1975 Yeah but my point was that there is no rule telling pedestrian have to check both sides before crossing (it is juste a strong advice). On the other hand there is a rule telling that a driver should be able to stop at anytime. But yeah I encourage everyone to check before crossing, bad drivers are everywhere indeed The comment I first respond to only told the pedestrian to be careful as if the street only belong to drivers
@@knawledgeinc Yeah of course, i am not saying that people should cross without checking. Just that if someone got crashed into at a crossing it is only the driver's fault. All of these accident could be avoided if all drivers respected the rules
I thinks that's only a matter of different heigth of the sensors, on a sedan the windshield is low and therefore the sensor, on an SUV the top of the windshield is significantly higher and so is the sensor, this may have a better capability staying up there... IMHO
Mercedes said ones that some testers fail at setting the test up in the first place. They made the test with a real person. The car was driving at around 30mph and it has braked every time. If all the cars fail than you might have to revise your test. The Euroncap ( the European crash test) tested them and they work on most cars flawlessly even at night.
@@mohamedprince2722 That's why car manufacturers and testers invented crash test dummies. Those are "dolls" that perfectly reproduce all physical characteristics of actual humans and can survive thousands of crashes. In this video they use shitty hollow plastic silhouettes. Sensors calibrated for detecting dense flesh won't trigger with hollow figures.
And sadly that’s probably something kids can legally claim in court, unless they go the route of hand sanitizer and say 99.9% of the time the car will stop. But its extremely likely someone will get them on that claim too since people already call out hand sanitizers 🤣
@@tomsterbg8130 yeah, its like when people were testing for motorbike helmets and found out that they don't prevent injuries 100%, so people chose not to use them until they were mandated. Generally egotists claiming "real men don't wear helmets". They do everything in their capacity to satisfy their ego.
@@ritwikreddy5670 I've never understood this idiotic thinking method, where something has to be utterly perfect before it's accepted. I mean, we can improve in increments people! It's still an improvement!
@@thatjokerperson7062 That is an utterly useless "excuse" for refusing to wear a helmet. But, you do you. Frankly, I think you should spend a bit more on your helmet, by the sounds of it. Either cheap or expensive helmets will save your life just as well, but more expensive helmets are (typically) more comfortable. Get one designed for cooling
You could expect that sensors (infrared, laser, ultrasound, ...) are not sensible to ambiant lighting. So those systems should be as efficient at night as in the day.
It's not an issue at all. It's just a system that can help the driver, not replace them. If it just saves one life when a driver wasn't paying attention, it's still better to have than not.
@@EragoEntertainment It could be an issue if people don't know that it isn't fully reliable and, Go drive while sleeping, cause I've seen videos of people driving autopilot cars asleep.
@@MsChestnutter1 In this case it's just break assistants. Also it's very well communicated that no car is fully autonomous, these people are just assholes and would have had accidents anyway.
For pedestrians : Look both ways, never DEPEND on such technology! For drivers : if driving is a chore to the point you use your phone while driving, DON'T drive, this is the one chore you can choose to not do! I heard someone say they laughed when a driving instructor said a car key is the most dangerous thing in your pocket...yeah...
Agreed. Don't rely on auto brake. Its the absolute last resort. Don't. You shouldn't rely on autobrake at all in all circumstances, and always treat yr car for not having one, even when it does. If you can't do that, you shouldn't sit behind the wheel at all. Also, for the tests, some were quite biased towards autobraking. I asked myself that if I'm in some of the extreme conditions will I able to slam on the brakes in time at all. If you're not able to do it, and the autobrake have an effectiveness of 10 percent, that's 10 percent chances the car will be stopped for the pedestrian.
Elevators are safe because of their failsafe, it can only go up or down when the brake is energized OFF. Otherwise springs hold the brake on at all times, there's no redundancy whatsoever. Commercial jets have 2 and 3x redundant systems and they still go down, your comment is senseless and so are the 28 people that mindlessly agreed with such a flawed statement. If that seemed redundant I just wanted to make sure it was understood, lol.
@@jimmartin7881 I was quoting a documentary I saw like 4 years ago on elevators. Apparently there is some math statistic that says elevators shouldn’t be as safe as they actually are. It’s because of just how many redundant fail safes there are. The creator of very early elevators had someone hack at the cables with a fireman’s axe of an elevator he was standing in and it didn’t go down even without one of the major cables holding him up. I just didn’t bother writing a full comment 3 months ago. No biggie for me, but apparently enough for you to have me make myself more clear.
@@Van-Leo No prob, there's a counterweight on a cable that balances things and a spring brake that's always on. Unless someone got in the shaft and torched the cables it's nearly impossible for an elevator car to fall.
My forward collision system thinks I’m going to hit the car in front of me as I’m braking. I’ve almost been rear ended several times because of that stupid thing
@Justin Lee I hope you turned it off, cuz of the way you make it out to be, I think it's more of a crash causing feature than a crash preventing one lol 😂
I have my KIA set to early warning and rarely ever get a warning. The only time it's actually activated and braked is when a car in front of me braked extremely hard or a car flew into my lane in front of me. Do you wait till the last second to brake? Also check if you can change the sensitivity, for example, KIA/Hyundai has early, normal, and late.
No kidding. My friend's car hard brake for no reason, scaring the krap out of us. Such shitty half-assed technology should never be released. Glad my relatively new car doesn't have all the kraps. I could drive peacefully knowing I have full control of my car 😎
People do this too much. Oh, is that a crosswalk? Nah. I'm just going to walk into the street with tunnel vision from between two parked cars. Oh, you almost hit me? Pay attention to the road better. Obviously it's not my fault. I swear people think just because they're not in a car means they can't get hit by one.
That's crosswalk in a city, while it might be good to make sure no reckless drivers are coming, they most likely have traffic light there to let pedestrians cross. Most people I see don't look both ways at city crosswalks ouly at the sign that tells them to cross. Edit: Nevermind, I just noticed a car drove past them from behind at 0:32.
No, also design safer streets. NotJustBikes has some great videos related to the topic, like this one: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Ra_0DgnJ1uQ.html
Am I the only person here who sees this as a terrible idea where the car just stops out of nowhere or the car stops but the thing it stopped for wasn't a human? As a responsible driver who's never hit anyone and never plans to, I would rather not have this than have it. If any CEO reads this, please please please please in the future have an option to get a car without the technology.
@@imyourmaster77 maybe tell their parents to install the auto-look-both-ways-and-only-cross-when-it-is-safe. If this system malfunctions, they can use the auto-you-are-grounded tool to fix the child.
@@imyourmaster77 If you're not training your children to look both ways before crossing the street, then you shouldn't be a parent. I grew up in a house where my driveway led out onto a road that had a 55 MPH speed limit, but most people went 65 MPH. Guess what? I'm alive today thanks to good parenting. What we need to do is pass a law that states that anytime a child gets hit by a car, the parents are immediately arrested, and a court looks into whether the children should be taken away from the parents due to them being irresponsible parents.
When I grew up, we were all taught to look both ways and to use crosswalks for heavily-trafficked streets. That doesn't seem to be the case today. The kids growing up in my neighborhood run, bike, and hoverboard right out into the road all the time, regardless of cars. I've had to slam on my brakes many times, and I've seen many other drivers have to do the same on my street. You see the kids, you slow down (just in case) as you approach, and then like clockwork they cut right out in front of you, counting on you to stop for them. It's beyond bizarre and its scary. To top it off, I recently I saw one of the mothers yell (literally) at a driver to slow down. The car was clearly going under the speed limit. These people need to teach their children better, not try to make other drivers slow to a crawl on every inch of every road.
Many people are staring at their phones or have AirPods in and are totally oblivious of their surroundings. Not to mention the kids on scooters/hoverboards AND who are also watching their phones at the same time.
