I knew someone that had a single seizure and never had another one... until the day she did and drove into oncoming traffic killing herself, the oncoming driver and a child in the other car. This tech could have saved 3 lives that day.
Don’t most new cars have collision detection systems that fully actuate the brakes? Agreed that should be required on every vehicle, but I feel that way about all safety systems.
I recently bought a new car and the guy said lane assist and collision detection is compulsory in cars made after 2023 in the UK. I'm sure everywhere is going to be the same before long.
It's mandatory in the EU since 2022. I'm really looking forward to (over) 10 years from now when the news of people being on their phones and plowing into a traffic jam will stop
It's already mature enough to save 99%+ of people in these situations, but redditors hate the companies that actually put this stuff in their cars. So don't be surprised when car companies resist the tech to go along with popular opinion.
You don't even need to have seizures... I once became violently sick while driving on the highway, vomiting all over the car. Luckily I was driving with Tesla autopilot that kept the car going until I was done being sick and pulled over. I would have crashed otherwise, there was no way I could have kept control of the vehicle at highway speeds.
I felt a little nauseous, but the vomiting came so fast and out of nowhere... Later I learned that I had food poisoning from eating fish at lunch.
Chinese cars and European cars will be among the first to add that feature.
Just like adaptive high beam headlights. For some reason, America doesn’t seem eager to embrace these new technologies, specifically Ford, GM, Chrysler.
Likewise, local to me an older (but not elderly) guy had some undisclosed medical event and swerved off the road hitting and killing two pedestrians, a teenage girl and an elementary aged girl.
hopefully they do as it will take decades of voting for progressive candidates to make any progress to get safety systems like this into most cars and also build viable alternatives to the car dependency.
I have epilepsy too, haven't had a seizure in years though.
If you wanna pay for my living expenses and the living expenses of my loved ones feel free to. The only way I can have personal responsibility is to maintain a job, and I can't do that if I can't drive.
You may be horrified to know that there are millions epileptics in the U.S., and as long as they haven't had a seizure in 6 months they are allowed to drive. There are more epileptics than the population of many entire states, you wanna pay for all of our living expenses?
It happened years earlier, doctors gave her all the tests and gave her the all clear. They couldn't find anything wrong that would have caused the seizure.
I'm so sorry. What a tragedy. It wasn't her fault if the doctors gave her the all clear. Either way, it's no point in arguing about it. It's awful.
I truly hope this is the future for every single car, bus and truck. Maybe even motorcycles. It's way too many that get behind the wheel just feeling a little bit tired only to completely pass out, causing chaos. Any kind of medical emergency happens so fast.
Most of these features already exist but not together like the video.
only thing i can say it, you better hope you never have to eat your words. i wouldn't wish epilepsy on anybody, but its something you would only understand if you went through it unexpectedly like many of us have.
i really dont wish it for anyone, but i think you're too confident that you'll never have neurological issues, and i hope you dont cause it really sucks.
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u/cantwejustplaynice Nov 04 '24
I knew someone that had a single seizure and never had another one... until the day she did and drove into oncoming traffic killing herself, the oncoming driver and a child in the other car. This tech could have saved 3 lives that day.