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Feds Want to Drop Requirement for Autonomous Cars to Have a Brake Pedal (www.nhtsa.gov)
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[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 1 points 9 hours ago

Maybe autonomous vehicles don’t need a ‘brake pedal’ specifically, but I do think that for safety’s sake, they do need some kind of emergency kill switch accessible to passengers in the interior. Something that will bring the vehicle to a stop as soon as safely possible and then ensure that the doors can be opened from the inside. And maybe repeated presses of the emergency kill switch should disregard software entirely, using purely hardware pathways to immediately bring the vehicle to a halt and unlock the doors.