car safety
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That Time The British Designed A Car To Drive Into People
Generally, when we think about automotive safety, it involves ways to not drive into people. The truth is, though, life isn’t perfect, and sometimes good people get driven into by cars. If you accept that this happens, you can then try to make a person’s car-impact experience as enjoyable as possible, and the results of…
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Should Autonomous Cars Be Forced To Save Lives In An Emergency?
We’ve discussed the need for a coherent set of ethics for autonomous cars before. After all, these are really 1,588kg robots that will be roaming all over our cities; we need to decide what acceptable and predictable behaviours will be for these machines. But lately I’ve been wondering something else about autonomous cars: should we…
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A Brief History Of Airbags And The Future Of Driverless Cars
“We’ve lost more Americans on the highways than we’ve lost in all the wars that we’ve ever fought,” says Jim Hall, the former head of the National Transportation Safety Board in a new video from the New York Times. The big push in the 1960s automobile world was about the sexiness and features of the…