> That’s the European mind speaking.
replySwipes are not allowed on HN, and comments that invoke national/regional/cultural stereotypes are particularly out of line here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Somehow I feel like "putting highly explosive canisters all around a car" is not the best example for why regulation is bad.
replyNo, that's the mind of a person speaking that is thinking of the motorcycle standing at the traffic light just behind this car. Action, reaction, that sort of thing.
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replyAnywhere in the world you can effectively own a Tesla is a place that probably cares if you turn the bike behind you into meat paste.
replyHere's a crazy idea: rear facing radar. Anything present within 1000 feet, it doesn't fire. GPS geofencing, not on a track can't fire. Etc.
replyWoah there, this is a Tesla. You're only allowed to use cameras.
replyI would start by pointing it forward and improving FSD. Better for everybody else on the road too.
replyThey don't even do radar for parking sensors.
replyObserve how the response hasn't addressed the safety point at all, just went in for more EU bashing.
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replyNot like those genius Elon and American minds thinking "oh yeh rocket engines on cars makes a lot of sense", you're saying?
replyThe very first cars required to have a person walking in front of it with waving a flag as a warning.
replyRed flag thing was the UK's Locomotives Act 1865, which dated from before what we call cars were invented. More aimed at traction engines (steam engines that go on the road). Exactly the type of regulation people like to mock the EU for.
replyLast year I went to a steam show and had to share the street with giant steam tractors for the first time. That law suddenly made sense. The visibility and stopping distance aren't great.
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replyFunnily enough, he was also the first person to get a driver's license IIRC.
reply>So many things that were invented in Europe couldn’t be invented today
replyLike leaded gazoline, whose effects can still be seen presently...
That was invented in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr.
replyI can think of no better person to have been hoisted on his own petard than Midgley. He also gave us the ozone hole. Veritasium has a great hit piece on this utter maniac.
reply> That’s the European mind speaking.
replyNo. That's the road safety mind speaking.
How long is the US going to allow a car able to jump over Hostile Vehicle Mitigation barriers?
replyLike everything else we regulate.... right up until it becomes cheap enough that "undesirables" might get their hands on them.
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