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Originally Posted by digital rules
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So it wasn't a test done by Volvo but just some dudes in the Dominican republic that started a test of a car collision avoidance system with the famous words, Hey y'all watch this." (Or Hey y'all ver este!)
The first time I saw that here it was presented as an actual test of an automatic parking feature failure, meaning the computer accelerated the car into the crowd. Now it seems it was humans purposely gunning the motor right into the people expecting the car to take over and stop them.
It's not embarrassing in that Volvo built a system that can be overridden by the human. If they made it so it stopped no matter the driver input then the anti-automation camp would complain we have taken away their ability to run down crowds of pedestrians.
There are videos out there of actual failed tests, this is not one of them.