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Drivers Tend To Kill Pedestrians At Night. Thermal Imaging May Help. (www.forbes.com)

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Drivers Tend To Kill Pedestrians At Night. Thermal Imaging May Help.::Pedestrian automatic emergency braking (AEB), which may become mandatory on U.S. cars in the future, tends to not perform well in the dark.

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[–] WTFBBQ@lemmy.world -4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I do a lot of night driving and haven’t killed anyone.

I don’t need a thermal camera to pay attention to the road in front of me. Drive to the conditions.

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

This is so fucking stupid because you can apply it to literally any safety standard.

I do a lot of driving and have never needed a seatbelt.

I do a lot of driving and I've never needed ABS.

I do a lot of driving and I've never needed disc brakes.

I do a lot of driving and I've never needed modern headlights.

I do a lot of driving and I've never needed a properly developed crash structure.

And of course it's not just driving:

I don't wear a hardhat or any other protective gear for my job. It's never done me any harm.

Etc.

Pedestrians and cyclists in the dark can be almost impossible to see until you're very close, if they're wearing dark clothes. It's not a bad thing to be able to see them better.

[–] custard_swollower@lemmy.world -1 points 9 months ago

This is so fucking stupid because you can apply it to literally any safety standard.

And then you write something exactly opposite.

OP writes about "drive to the conditions" which is like... Your responsibility as the driver. If you can't react to people on the road, slow down.

And you write about being recless.