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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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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People often don't help themselves either. I remember this time, I was driving on a country road in the fog. Suddenly I saw my foglights light up a dog walking in the road. So I drove around, then as I got closer I saw a man walking this dog, dressed all in black, on an unlit country road, walking away from traffic, in dense fog.

If he made it back home alive, it's purely down to luck (or his dog being seen before him again).

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How about not driving while on dense fog?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I would love to never have somewhere I needed to be when weather made driving dangerous.

Unfortunately most people don't have that kind of freedom to always be able to leave early enough before bad weather starts, or to stay where they're at during bad weather until it ends.

Best most people can do is drive more carefully and slow down as appropriate for the visibilty.