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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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[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 17 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

This has been a thing for decades now at least in Mercedes (S & E) and BMW (5+).

And it's not just the camera alone, car headlights have a special projector that selectively illuminates pedestrians (or just does a double flash at them). Works as intended, but few people opt for it ... and gov are still not mandating it (like automatic breaking).

[-] HeneryHawk@thelemmy.club 10 points 9 months ago

My parents gotba relatively new Merc and I'd to turn that auto braking off. Its far too sensitive and nearly had me rear ended driving around a bend. My guess is its picking up the retroreflective spots on the markings as there usually isn't a car on that bend but the Merc is beeping at me like I'm about to be in a collision

[-] zoe@jlai.lu 6 points 9 months ago
[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 5 points 9 months ago

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