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.

  • TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    hmm thermal imaging in cars… or just more public transit and street lighting… give me the expensive capitalist hellcreating thing

    • Flyingostrich@endlesstalk.org
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      1 year ago

      That only works in more urban areas.

      Its impossible to covered every road in lights and it can get very dark when you are far away from a city. Same with public transit. I am all for it, but it’s only reasonable in more densely populated areas. There just won’t be enough people using it in th middle of nowhere to just something like that much less staff it.

      Meanwhile helping cars see people even in those less common and more difficult situations is a good thing. Why would you NOT want your car to be safer for others around you?

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        1 year ago

        80% of the US population, and about half of the world population, lives in urban areas.

        By 2050, those figures will be 90% and 75%, respectively.

        Planning better urban areas won’t help everyone, but it will help the supermajority.

      • deur@feddit.nl
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        1 year ago

        Awww shit bois the huge country with plenty of money cannot afford to do it

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          1 year ago

          IMO, I don’t think it matters whether we can or can’t. I don’t think we should even if we could. Light pollution from cities is bad enough. Adding that many more lights would make it so much worse.

    • JiveTurkey@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Right. I can’t wait for the thermal camera on my ridiculously expensive car to break so it can become a lawn ornament until I spend thousands on a new camera.

    • Guest_User@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I’m all for more public transport but I’m also all for improving safety features for pedestrians. Not sure why anyone would be against putting the cost on car owners.