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In America, we have to feed the new-yacht habit of the CEOs, so we can't have safe things.

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I’d totally mob with the homies in that dope-ass ride!

And they're so cute and wee! I intend to try being car free when my 20yr old car decides it's done (which I may be hastening by not driving it much). But if I did buy another vehicle, I'd want it to be something like this.

Yet facial recognition is being forced into new cars and making them more expensive. Add bike detection and ditch big brother AI instead.

its the same detection as for pedestrians it's just tuned to detect basically pedestrians moving as fast as a car. So yeah It costs nothing and is only avoided because they are paid to by lobby groups

It should be mandatory in ALL new and recalled vehicles. It should be mandatory on vehicles with a blind spot larger than a newborn child.

My 2023 Car in Canada has this.

The self driving cars already have this, or at least a beta version, so it’s just a software update and eventually all will be forced to implement. Like a front version of the backup collision detection. Or the front facing collision detection. Or lane detection.

Guess what else Japan has, children with independent movement who can walk and bike to school. Of course, you can also watch 'Old Enough' to get the idea as well. "For decades in Japan, roughly 98% of children have walked or cycled to and from school." www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion...

How can we rethink our cities so children can get around safely?Rebecca Clements from the School of Architecture, Design and Planning explores the contrasts between Japan and Australia when it comes to letting children travel safely around their neighbourhoods on ...www.sydney.edu.au

It’s America’s corporate greed. I am so sick of it.

but then how would we run over those dumb kids that do wheelies to frighten people?

In b4 - no wait, in after Some Moron in the comments whines about bikes needing better visibility instead of *checks notes* cars also being able to see them, like every civilized country

The US is still talking about their V8 'hemi' and making huge child killer diesel trucks.

Just stepping onto the crosswalk "Green", signal jumped back when some stupid bastard made a quick right at the corner Can we have an Asshole Detection System?

It’s a useless technology outside of the cities

We can’t have that but we can mandate all production cars monitor their drivers and constantly second guess them. Electric cars can be bricked much like other electronic devices. All this control and surveillance tech but less and less public safety. 🤔

It is always so interesting to hear how in some other country, how a new rule or law was implemented. Then, why doesn't the USA have it!!!!! The politics in every country is different, as is the culture. It's not hard to understand at all. 🙄😑🫤

especially the Stripes G model design looks a bit like a Mini that was squeezed to be shorter and went up in height 😅 adding something for security would never be too expensive if humans would focus on not harming each other before any other "cool features"

I'd consider buying one of these in 25 years... Stupid US transportation systems and regulations keep pushing the Overton towards tanks and racecars that cost up to ten times this.

As long as bicycles can add a stop-sign detector

The Magnus White and Safe Streets for Everyone Act would require the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to adopt a performance standard for bicyclist detection (and other vulnerable road users) and make those systems standard equipment on new vehicles www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

In the US, we've dragged our feet on adding really any assessment of pedestrian or bicyclist detection to our New Car Assessment Program It's on a roadmap for 2027 implementation, but we're missing all of the other deadlines right now www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.... Europe's had it since 2018

I wish we could import these here (new, not 25 years old). Kei pickup trucks - that’s all many pickup owners really need, end of the day. Not an F-30,000-fifty.

I want the Stripes model!!!

In Toronto that would be a detriment to most drivers as they hit bikes as a motor sport

Based.

While I like this idea, having nearly been hit by a car years ago in the US, I’m really only comfortable riding a bike on dirt roads and bike paths in the US. And I ride everywhere in Holland, where the lanes are entirely separated, motorists are respectful, and dedicated bike paths are commonplace.

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I don’t know where you’ve heard that but I know for a fact that BMW navigation systems have done this for a couple years now. Even the POS tesla’s have it. 🤷‍♂️

These are so adorable. I hate it that we can't have nice things in the States.

This tech is evolving so fast that I suspect you could put a kit on a non self driving car warning you when you are about to screw up.

Maybe the bikes can have registration plate, maybe RFID? Maybe a warning sound, maybe lights. Nah. Bike safety is someone else's responsibility.

And in a kei car you are: 1) better able to see a bicyclist over your hood 2) not sprawling all over the road

When they said it would be "too expensive" to add bicyclist detection to new vehicles in the US, they mispoke. What they meant to say is, "We're too stupid to add bicyclist detection to new vehicles." They also don't care.

Big nope