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Mercedes becomes the first automaker to sell autonomous cars in the U.S. that don't come with a requirement that drivers watch the road (fortune.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

If memory serves, that's not an intentional feature, but more a coincidence, since if the driver thinks the cruise control is about to crash the car, they'll pop the brakes. Touching the brakes disengages the cruise control by design, so you end up with it shutting down before a crash happens.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

That makes perfect sense. If the driver looks up to notice that he's in a dangerous, unfixable situation, slams the breaks, disconnecting the autopilot (which have been responaible for letting the situation develop) hopefully the automaker can't entirely say "not our fault, the system wasn't even engaged at the time of the collision"