Back seat drivers

[TimberWolf]

The days of automation you can't disengage are much further away.

Although I'd not be at all surprised if 99% of automation-related accidents are due to users going to manual and then driving straight into the car in front/behind.

The cars behind [a human controlled automated car] would only have to be able to brake as normal and the car in front would only be hit due to a human mistake; either accelerating excessively for no good reason or not braking fast enough for some error possibly related to his taking control in the first place. That human might then become the new lead vehicle of the remaining cars who will then relentlessly pursue him, possibly in some suicidal error mode

[bless 'em all]

The vehicles drove at 85kph (52mph) with the gap between each vehicle just 6m (19ft).

Pfffft! I can drive 3 feet behind the car in front at 80mph. Can't the powers-that-be come up with something worthwhile?

DM Reader.

[d000hg]

The days of automation you can't disengage are much further away.

Although I'd not be at all surprised if 99% of automation-related accidents are due to users going to manual and then driving straight into the car in front/behind.

[TimberWolf]

Possibly, if I was able to take control if conditions looked out of the ordinary. Not sure I could sleep, but I might manage a more relaxed state. Then again I'd have trouble sleeping on a Spanish bus when it's driven about a foot behind cars in front, like the last one I went on.

[d000hg]

If it's tested properly then I'm fine with it. Seems to be on it's way in around the world in various guises.

[doodab]

BBC News - Volvo's self-drive 'convoy' hits the Spanish motorway

Would you trust someone to drive you down the motorway if they were in a different car?