• timestatic@feddit.org
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    6 hours ago

    Just make the motor not slam the door but close it slowly with not enough force to harm someone and put like two sensors + 1 backup in there

    • Lumidaub@feddit.org
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      5 hours ago

      Call me a cynical luddite but somehow I don’t trust today’s autonomous car technology to be reliable and fool-proof enough for that mechanism not to fail catastrophically and randomly because it’s raining or someone on the other side of the street made a sudden movement or Mercury is in retrograde or the company’s stock market just dropped 592 points because investors are furious after realising they wasted money on a backup or it’s Tuesday.

      • timestatic@feddit.org
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        5 hours ago

        You know we already have autonomous doors for houses. I feel like theres a lot more trust involved having a 2 ton vehicle move significant speeds on the road than having it close a door

        • Lumidaub@feddit.org
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          5 hours ago

          I do not know that. I’d also assume the technology to close a door on a car to work very differently from that on a house because a door on a house that may not be closed properly is far less dangerous than one on a car. Also, yes, I don’t trust that 2 ton vehicle either if it claims to be autonomous.