Comment Re:Right... (Score 1) 357
"You're car shutting off going around a bend will cause loss of control."
No. It will cause loss of power. It does not stop brakes / steering from being operational. And if you're going fast enough to do the corner with all this tech, but not without, it's DRIVER ERROR.
"Sure, driving down a strait road, on a sunny day, with no one within a few car lengths and this wont be a problem."
Driving properly.
"Also, the air bags stop functioning; which is a problem when you loose most of your control from your vehicle."
"Your" control.
"Ever have an engine just turn off while driving? it's startling, so people hit the breaks used to ABS will lock them up and end up in a slide, with surprising difficult steering."
Yes. And I didn't. And I was a "new" driver at the time (but older than most beginners). The car shut off, I let it drift and steered gently. It had ABS. It had power-steering. I hadn't driven a car without them. I still didn't even veer out of lane except in a controlled maneouvure to pull to the side of the road. I've also had my brake pads fail jam a wheel (so like putting the brakes on, but lop-sided) while on a motorway.
But all that is besides the point. If you're a driver, and you panic, that's the worst thing you can do. And is also, again, driver error.
"Nope. It means no such thing. How about you drive 65 miles an hour around a curve in traffic and have someone else tuun off the ignition? whats that? you won't do it? clearly there is something wrong with your driving."
Not really. You still have full steering and your speed will decrease. You might lose power-steering but at those speed it has little effect - you are steering literally fractions of a degree around the steering arc.
And 65 mph around a curve in traffic? Maybe that's your problem? The only curve you'd do that on is a motorway curve. Which has lanes and distances set so that you never have to steer more than a fraction of a degree of the arc.
Again - like the "sledgehammer to the server" redundancy test, or the "let's restore from backup" data test. If you're NOT prepared to do them, it's because you KNOW you're not doing things correctly. But you wouldn't do them "just because" because it could, potentially, possibly, maybe, be slightly dangerous and you don't do things like that when you're driving.