Comment from Gary D Terhune
Gary D TerhuneOpposeIndividual
Summary: A truck driver with over 12 years of experience argues that automatic braking systems are not ready for widespread use due to frequent false positive detections from radar. The commenter expresses concern that these malfunctions could lead to collisions with nearby vehicles and suggests that while vehicle detection is useful, the automatic braking feature is currently flawed.
These proposed automatic braking systems are still not ready for widespread usage due to the number of false positive detections by the radar system. I have been driving trucks with such systems for 12+ years. The systems pick up signs, overpasses, traffic lights, street lights and even trees that are often not actually in the line of travel. This becomes especially problematic when a company's safety department monitors these systems and believe them to be completely infallible. They are in fact guilty of faults. Some of which could cause other vehicles in close proximity to then crash into a vehicle which has an automatic system installed.
I do agree that a vehicle detection system is useful. Just not the automatic braking feature.