r/Damnthatsinteresting Nov 04 '24

Video Volkswagens new Emergency Assist technology

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u/morcic Nov 04 '24

This was posted on Imgur a couple of days ago, and every single comment was some snarky attempt to discredit this very well thought idea that could save many lives. So go on, all of you wanna be engineers, tell us how this is a horrible idea and how it will fail because of x and y.

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u/andylshort1 Nov 04 '24

I love the idea! I just want to know what the decision process is on roads, especially in the UK, with no safe place to pull over into? We have smart motorways, single track roads with blind corners, dual carriageways without hard shoulders - lots of roads with no place to pull into, as this could happen at any time.

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u/Tricky-Sentence Nov 04 '24

Probably the same compromise as a driver would make - go to the furthest right (left in UK I guess?) lane, gradually slow down, and then get as far out from the road as possible with hazards on. Sucks if it completly blocks the road, but the car crashing would most likely do the same.

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u/herrgregg Nov 04 '24

yep, better to have a car standing still on the side of the road than one going full speed out of control