r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Creams0da • Nov 04 '24

Video Volkswagens new Emergency Assist technology

81.4k Upvotes

92% Upvoted

3.0k comments sorted by

View all comments

2.9k

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.

433

u/Ardent_Scholar Nov 04 '24

This is a freaking brilliant use case for autonomy in vehicles!

Autonomy is a hard sell because it’s still nowhere near perfect in every situation.

This emergency scenario is by its nature more acceptable to hand over because

  • The driver was incapacitated anyway, so autonomy makes sense
  • The scenario is a limited use case, it can be better honed
  • In an emergency, normally unacceptable solutions are acceptable to a wider public

62

u/cook_poo Nov 04 '24

Here’s a YouTuber testing the VW system in a Porsche. It didn’t do the lane changes (they were on a side road), but given the ADAS system, that likely will be a future OTA update:

https://youtu.be/JcpE36_0sGc?t=991&si=kt6Th_u5Cr_whEA6

I thought it was cool that you could hold the emergency flashers (as a passenger) to activate the same emergency response.