Notices by Andrew Clews (crackedwindscreen@mastodon.online)

@feditips Oh my. I am so sorry. Apologies. I cannot fathom how that happened. It said @motoringpodcast before I hit publish.

September new car registration figures are dissected on @feditips

Poor September, no matter how its dress it up. Private registrations must be a real worry, particularly for BEVs. Cost of living beginning to really hit home? Look at the discounts that are already being announced.

And no, Gov's 2030 announcement DIDN'T change private BEV stats.

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These lunatics are going to kill people with this insane thinking.

Show me your safety case. Show me your documented safety culture and how you go about things.

https://www.designnews.com/automotive-engineering/imagry-camera-only-mapless-automated-driving-system

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Obviously I have no idea what the car did or didn't do and if the driver is correct in what happened. But it does sit well with my thoughts on and experience of the current ADAS systems, essentially how it is unfit for purpose and should not be on our roads, let alone being mandated on, as is the case.
@drewpasmith talks about this on an excellent episode of Next Billion Seconds with @mpesce and Sally Dominguez.
https://nextbillionseconds.com/2023/02/02/the-next-billion-cars-autonomous-vehicles-learning-to-crawl/

Interesting article in The Sunday Times, about a BMW iX and the driver's claims that whilst cruise control was enabled it accelerated suddenly and she had to drive it up a bank (and then flip) to avoid other road users.
The quote from BMW is very telling, saying that responsibility "remains with the driver at all times" when using any ADAS.
I am reminded of this from The Ojo-Yoshida Report discussing OEMs putting all responsibility on the driver for their tech.
https://ojoyoshidareport.com/bmw-fiasco-failed-testing-verification-validation-of-ai-driven-adas/

@drewpasmith @mpesce The testing regimes themselves are "flawed" (I'm being VERY polite). For 'intelligent cruise control' the system only needs to be accurate for 90% of the test. That's 25kms it can be wrong!
Thatcham Research, UK NCAP testers, have admitted the 'lane keeping' tests have been gamed by OEMs just to pass and not be good on the roads.
That's just two examples.
If only we had a recent example of OEMs gaming tests to the detriment of us all, say over emissions or something.