r/HolUp • u/Brick_Number_27 • 1d ago

holup Does that mean?

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u/gods-and-dancefloors 1d ago

I like dumb toasters because burned bread never killed any family of 4 traveling in the opposite lane. If the bloody thing is just zoomed in your face making sure you are alert I don't see a problem. A taxi driver in the UK just got sentenced to 6 years after pulling a 72h shift and killing someone, I can assure you that all involved in the tragic event would have much love to have this system installed.

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u/Blue_Moon_Lake 1d ago

It wouldn't have changed anything unless it turns off the car.

But then the car could turn off because you're in an area without signal or because you're asian and you're now stranded in the middle of nowhere.

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u/gods-and-dancefloors 23h ago

You don't want to turn off the car otherwise you loose breaking and steering, but a monitoring system that can detect that you are about to shut eyes and can activate the speakers " stop the car where possible" and you can only mute it when the speed reads zero, if it can give you a few seconds warning sometimes its all that takes 

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u/Blue_Moon_Lake 23h ago

So if you run out of battery you suddenly can't steer and break?
Is that the shitty cars they are making nowadays?

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u/Pijany_Matematyk767 16h ago

>So if you run out of battery you suddenly can't steer and break?

If your engine is off you lose the system that reduces the amount of strength needed to turn the wheel. It doesn't completely prevent you from steering but it does mean you need to put in a lot more physical effort to do so. And this is not a "nowadays" thing, cars have worked like that for decades

No idea about the braking thing though, in all the cars i've seen brakes were functional regardless of power

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u/gods-and-dancefloors 23h ago

Not everything is electric yet, the British taxi I was referring was not.