Insane Volvo brake test epic fail
Why Hacker News recommends it
Cited as a cautionary example whenever collision-avoidance or self-driving safety systems come up.
What it is
A short clip of a Volvo C60 automatic braking demonstration in which the car fails to stop. It was widely circulated as a press-demo embarrassment.
Recommended by 0 HN commenters across 0 different months, 2010 to 2018.
What Hacker News said
Critical eli_s · 2010-10 · on “Google Cars Drive Themselves, in Traffic”
It will take only a few of these: [this video] (volvo crash avoidance failure) to shake people's confidence in these systems.
Critical alexitosrv · 2011-07 · on “Toyota automatically stops car before it can hit pedestrian”
Does anybody else remember this demostration of a Volvo featuring a similar characteristic and utterly failing? [this video] These technologies need to gain the trust of the drivers before they can become mainstream.
Critical chillingeffect · 2018-03 · on “Uber disabled Volvo SUV's safety system before fatality”
Especially because a Volvo plowed into a pedestrian almost a year ago: [LINK] IIRC it was discovered this happened because the owner hadn't purchased the "Pedestrian Avoidance Package". And shortly before that, a Volvo plowed into a parked truck (in a demo): [this video] This was "was the result of an earlier flat battery that temporarily disabled the system due to low voltage" [0] The pattern here is not only due to the collision systems themselves, but to the system around the collision avoidance system. [0] [LINK]