<story><title>Automatic emergency braking should become mandatory, feds say</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/05/automatic-emergency-braking-should-become-mandatory-feds-say/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>maximinus_thrax</author><text>Looking at the comments here I need to double check if I&amp;#x27;m on some gearhead forum where automatic transmission is considered appropriate exclusively for teenagers and geriatric patients.&lt;p&gt;Anyway, I&amp;#x27;ll add my anecdote when my Toyota surprised me with a panic brake in a blind corner which probably saved my life by not ending up under a stopped bus. But the kicker is that my insurer gave me quite a steep discount when I originally bought the car, specifically due to the emergency brake feature. They may have more data comparing collisions for cars with&amp;#x2F;without this feature than anons on internet forums, who knows?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>matheusmoreira</author><text>Wanting to have control over the vehicle is not some &amp;quot;gearhead forum&amp;quot; thing at all. I barely care about cars and I still care about this.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m the driver, I should be in control and there&amp;#x27;s literally no need to justify it any further. Anything that forcibly takes away control is automatically wrong from a basic human dignity perspective. I couldn&amp;#x27;t care less what governments or insurers think, I&amp;#x27;m the goddamn human and I should have total control over this machine. I&amp;#x27;m driving, not being driven.</text></comment>
<story><title>Automatic emergency braking should become mandatory, feds say</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/05/automatic-emergency-braking-should-become-mandatory-feds-say/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>maximinus_thrax</author><text>Looking at the comments here I need to double check if I&amp;#x27;m on some gearhead forum where automatic transmission is considered appropriate exclusively for teenagers and geriatric patients.&lt;p&gt;Anyway, I&amp;#x27;ll add my anecdote when my Toyota surprised me with a panic brake in a blind corner which probably saved my life by not ending up under a stopped bus. But the kicker is that my insurer gave me quite a steep discount when I originally bought the car, specifically due to the emergency brake feature. They may have more data comparing collisions for cars with&amp;#x2F;without this feature than anons on internet forums, who knows?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jacquesm</author><text>Insurance companies are run by people that are good at statistics, and there is a fair chance that statistically this works out well but that does not mean anything for any particular individual. Chances are that EAB will cause some accidents and prevents a whole lot more, and that&amp;#x27;s enough for the insurers.</text></comment>