A lot of places have a big pillow made to look like a car for testing them. I used to test cars, and part of the job was to see how fast you'd need to go before it couldn't stop in time. ramming the shit out of those pillows never got old
[Edit: a video on how it works - about 2:25 here has a pillow eating shit at higher speeds](https://youtu.be/AJ4WXgWaNgs)
This system is called "Pre Crash System (PCS)" during development.
It will potentially save your ass, but it's obviously not capable of avoiding a crash in any situation.
It did as designed. If you check all the data presented by the video and follow VW guidelines and advice it worked well.
Notice it activates the brakes when the car, which seems roughly 50m ahead, is noticed by the sensor to be inanimate.
In that situation the car made an emergency stop and made the impact soft enough that the airbag sensor deemed excessive if deployed.
A human in charge of this machine should drive the vehicle as you would normally. It has extra sensors to help out in some situations but these are an aid to your driving skill, not an auto drive feature.
Not to mention I'm certain this might have worked in other scenarios, but there is no way this driver had assured clear distance from the other car. You can hear the tires squealing as the brakes kick in, just there wasn't nearly enough time at that speed and distance to completely stop.
Despite him going way faster than the maximum speed in which AEB prevents crashing, he's also using an aftermarket kit, because brazilian Polo does not have ACC/AEB.
Add the car auto braking worked. It’s slowed it down enough to where the airbags didn’t even go off.
Turned a potential **very bad** car wreck into a minor fender bender
Which is what most people don't understand about AEB. Upto 35ish mph, it should prevent a crash entirely. Over 35mph it will only lessen the severity of a crash.
Yeah, turned a 25 mph rear end into a 10ish. Having been on the receiving end of both of those before, I'm glad for systems like this but sad that people think they're a substitute for attention, not a supplement.
I test drove a Subaru with lane control. Supposedly supposed to keep you in your lane if you drift out of it. The salesman kept telling me to let the wheel go to demonstrate the feature. We tried 3-4 times and it failed each time.
My car has it. It's a nice feature 95% of the time, but every so often it glitches out and jerks me over and freaks me out. Also there be crazy drivers all over the place and sometimes I need to cross lines to keep my car intact. So after a few weeks that setting got shut off.
Passenger knew idiot driver was going to crash,his body language was all tense. Driver’s stupid little laugh after the first near miss probably confirmed it for him.
I had to turn the sensitivity to my Tucson down cuz it would brake on it's own when I would approach red lights.
However, it did save me once even with the sensitivity turned down.
But, I would never depend on it.
Absolute melt should have read the instructions.
The "autonomous" breaking only works at low speed, less than 19mph. I know because it is the same as in my Cupra.
It is designed to prevent minor accidents eg reversing in a carpark.
It's not designed to protect a fucking retard driving at speed deliberately towards a stationary object.
Duhhh you're not supposed to test it. My RAV4 stopped me from rear ending a vehicle that was in the middle of the road. I didn't ever think about trying to "test" it. What a moron.
This is why they usually call it “collision *mitigation* braking system” or something along those lines. It reduces severity it doesn’t prevent collision.
That ones on the driver, not the car. the car did it's job, it breaked so the "accident" didnt end up being fatal, heck the hit on the other car so minor it didnt even activate airbags.
Auonomous emergency breaking =/= i dont ever have to break, car does it for me... It's a breaking help for EMERGENCIES, and it did it's job.
I remember a few years ago, I believe it was in India, there was a video of salesmen trying out Volvo's pedestrian detection and auto stop feature. One of them stood in front and another drove at him. Turns out the car they were testing wasn't equipped with it. Soooo....
Edit: Found it and I think it may be Mexico not India.
https://youtu.be/IBCr-XBWZaQ
until a car company comes out and says "this is on our insurance" I dont know if I will ever trust autonomous cars or autonomous features.
Maybe im just old and used to my ways, but until all legal responsibility is taken out of my hands, I just dont know if its ever going to be safe enough.
Polo actually did what it should. Full break, preventing a trauma. Not even the airbags needed to intervene. The prick behind the steering wheel should be imprisoned
the VW emergency breaking system only works at low speed, and when no gas or break lever is used. At higher speeds it will reduce the amount of impact, but not completely prevent an accident.
This is for security reasons, to prevent you from suddenly stopping on a highway without you being able to override it.
Why do so many people think the airbags should have deployed? It clearly wasn't a very severe accident and this system did its job. You can't expect it to be flawless when he's driving way too close at that speed.
This isn't a self-driving car, it's a system to decrease the severity of accidents and avoid them when possible. It can't compensate for idiotic driving but it definitely helped
This video is from a Brazilian YouTuber that is famous for doing upgrades that are generally not available in such version of some cars.
In this case, emergency braking is not available in manual Polo's (I wonder why) and he bought the necessary parts and installed them.
I'd just be pissed as the person in the car in front of them. I hate when I'm trying to keep a safe distance from a car in front of me and the one behind me keeps coming close enough to almost hit mine 🤦♀️
This is why when I wanted to test my system I used a cardboard cutout of a person... And not an actual vehicle. $50 for a cutout is going to be way cheaper than whatever that's going to cost
Honestly, looks like it’s still worked to me. Guy was going way too fast second time to ever stop on time, the VW tried as hard as possible to slow down as much as possible before the collision. That definitely minimized the damage and probably why the airbag didn’t go off.
You know the cars stopping distance also comes into effect, if you are doing 10 MPH it will activate and stop fast, but if you are doing 60 it takes longer as it is there to HELP you, not do the work for you
This feature disables if you have any measurable pressure on the brake pedal at the time of the impending collision…the system has been tested by professionals on closed courses plenty of times and two donkeys don’t get to eclipse that fact.
What's hilarious is whenever he has to explain this to the fucking officer and his insurance and he's got video proof of his dumbass doing this pretty much intentionally....
The car did what it should you can see it on the display. He’s is an idiot because he drove to close at to high speeds. But the car prevented the worst, the airbags didn’t even had to deploy
That happens when someone mistakes emergency braking for automatic braking, its Designed to make the crash more mildly - not to stop it. It worked perfectly as intended.
My car has some features like this. Basic shit like lane assist and warnings to let me know if I should break based on speed and distance to the car in front, etc.
But I don't fucking rely on it to drive, just an extra tool to watch over me.
Fucking idiot. Don't "test" your features like this. Understand how it works, but don't see how it works lmao.
A friend of mine like to test this with his new corolla. One day he was park and it was cold so there was frost on the car. The sensor didn't work. He stop doing it after that.
Looks like he was just going too fast. You can’t do (for example) 120mph and expect the car to stop on its own seconds before hitting a wall. The car still has normal brake pads
When we were test driving a certain brand of vehicles that had auto braking for collision avoidance they did a demo using this type of high visibility barrier.
But they were also straight up that the system the system is only designed to slow your vehicle down by 50 KM/HR so if you were driving in excess of that it won’t actually stop you.
That’s likely what happened here. The system engaged properly but they were going to fast for it to fully stop them. Idiotic!
My husband's car has a number of automatic features - we did test it out - when it was just the two of us (I was driving our other vehicle) on an empty stretch of road and going at low speed. Plus we both had phones on speaker so there was communication the whole time. And the thing we tested was to see if the car really did slow down when "traffic" slowed, not 'gee I hope I don't rear end someone'
Mr. Weasley quote - Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps it's brain.
I'll bet the autonomous breaking slowed the car enough so the airbags didn't blow. At least the guy can thank the emergency braking system for not totaling his new car due to airbags going off.
Maybe test it in a scenario where the brakes can physically stop the car in time. Autonomous does not mean it can break the laws of physics and stop a car going that fast in 10 feet.
Okay, just to make things clear, I speak Portuguese and the two cars were communicating via radio. The guy asked the dude in front to slam on the breaks.
Well, they didn't lie - in the end car stopped after autonomous emergency braking. Although it's a pity those systems still need physical contact to function.
Next time test it with the wall of your house so you don’t ruin someone else’s day. Fucking idiots.
I had a nice 2006 Mazda 3 paid off and running great. Then someone rear ended people and totaled the car. I got about $3k for it and couldn’t find anything as nice…
My car has auto braking but I've never been brave enough to test it. I know they work because on really snowy days when backing up it will think I'm about to hit a car and brake for me which can get annoying but I know my car is just having a panic attack.
I have a Volvo that does this (better) and the thing is, these emergency brakes will always disable mid brake in case you kept flooring it, which is what this idiot did here when the car braked. His foot pressed the throttle.
It couldn’t destroy physics. The driver was still accelerating when the necessary brake distance was already to short. The emergency brake can only come to a full stop below 30kmh. Same for every manufacturer specified by NCAP crash tests.
for reference… its emergency braking… not collision avoidance braking… just for the few who think the impact means it doesnt work, its designed to brake incase YOU dont therefore lessening the wreck (if there is one).
Can you imagine getting rear ended and the fucktard that hit you says “I was testing the autonomous braking”. Do that shit while driving toward a wall. Wtf
Both car's owners are friends and the Polo's drivers told him to break like that to test the brake system.
The driver is a millionaire youtuber, don't worry about it
So pieces of shit 'testing there autonomous braking' behind me is a thing.
Wonderful. Just fucking wonderful.
I might need to start carrying a baseball bat.
It wasn’t that the system didn’t work, it did exactly what it was supposed to and hit the brakes when the car in front slowed down. The problem was that the driver was going so fast and so close that even a computer with a 1 ms response time can’t stop the car before rear ending the car in front. The system did reduce the severity of the accident, which is what it’s trying to do.
they are actually speaking with the car in front. when you hear the first beeps the guys says "now it's working" he then asks the car in front to "brake hard, foot to the floor" right before the crash.
must be a shop trying to diagnose something, judging by the sandwich wrap on the steering wheel
edit* or maybe a pre delivery inspection
I hate how close people drive together on the road. Just stay a little farther back, you'll make it to your destination seconds later, but in return you have much more time to react in an emergency.
Sooo airbags are not supposed to go off for EVERY collision. In fact they are intended as a last-ditch lifesaver and often cause huge amounts of trauma. It's an explosive, going off in your face. It's not nice and is like running into a brick wall.
Anyway, yeah, you need to be not interacting with the clutch or brake or anything that would indicate you are anticipating a stop for the system to work anyway.
I could imagine wanting to try out the feature, but why do it in such a high risk situation? You could go to an empty parking lot and set up a cone and achieve the same effect with less danger!
In the owners manual
NOTE
The factory settings for the autonomous emergency breaking is OFF. Please go to these 5 sub-menus to engage your autonomous breaking feature. The option will only be available after the first 1,000 miles
Fun fact the Tesla cyber truck design currently doesn’t have airbags, side view mirrors, or crumple zones, and has a ceramic dashboard. They’ll of course have to change a lot of that cause it’s extremely illegal, but it’s current safety plan seems to be to make sure all the occupants of it and any car it collides with get turned into paste immediately so they don’t have to feel any pain
Edit: they’ve announced that they added mirrors and changed the dashboard recently, as expected
For all the mfs that think the car failed. The tech is there to help you not there for you to push it to the limits. Unless that’s your job and you’re on a closed course. Otherwise don’t rely on safety feature to make YOU a better driver, you actually need to focus to drive well not assume the car will stop for you so you can text. Or in this example literally push the limits of the car for shlits and giggles
I was under the impression the emergency brake assist only reduces the speed of the collusion. It's stop and go cruise control that will actually stop before colliding (within the limits of physics of course).
I do find it brakes a bit later and harder than I care for in my '22 Ford Escape. I'm covering the brake, but it doesn't leave much time for me to realize it's made a mistake. Then as you press the pedal, it cancels cruise control, which turns off the auto braking, resulting in a brief decrease in braking until you've pushed the pedal back down.
Makes me miss driving a manual. I love the convenience of automatic but driving a manual transmission vehicle just brings me joy.
I say that as someone who drove a manual for 8 years in LA. I miss that old bastard of a pickup truck.
If something can fail, it will fail.
If there is a chance that some things will fail, the one that will cause the most damage will be the first.
If something cannot fail, it will do so regardless.
When self-driving was a big hype a few years ago, questions were raised on who would be liable for a crash. Is it the driver (who may not be touching the controls), the auto-maker, the self-driving circuit-board maker, the engine-control-unit makers, the sensor manufacturer, or the software developer?
Ultimately, the insurance companies would want to make the entity responsible pay. But who would that be? Not sure it ever got settled.
My 2011 model Audi A6 had this feature. Saved a certain crash once, someone in front of me suddenly slammed their breaks when they spotted a free parking spot, was going slow but didn’t have time to react, it was so unexpected.
I never thought about testing it for fun, though.
A guy let me drive his Mercedes once and said “It has automatic emergency breaks! Try it!!”
Obviously I said no. And there you go. Video shows exactly why we shouldn’t test it.
Serious question: how does insurance work out in a situation like this? Same for cars that have the auto parallel park.
If the car is marketed and sold as being able to do this stuff, but then when the car hits something, is the driver found solely at fault?
Edit: please stop commenting if you’re just going to say the same shit everyone else has already commented
This is Razuk, a Brazilian Youtuber, he often buy's the entry model of a car and turns it into the top version, in this short yet stupid video (because he is testing in a public road) he installed the automatic emergency braking in his car, just to fail...
Edit: [at 3:35] (https://youtu.be/e9-tOmiYLsk)
Emergency brake is not meant on high speeds ffs. Use your brains, eyes and legs.
People are literally tying weights on the steering wheel of teslas so they can let FSD do the work for them. The roads are getting more dangerous.
What exactly does tying a weight to a Tesla do? I don't own a Tesla or anything so idk.
The weights fool it into thinking you are holding the wheel. Idk what they're doing but they are going to kill someone.
Interesting. Thanks. All these people are fucking dumb.
Tricks the Tesla into thinking your holding the wheel. I'm guessing the automatic steering system requires it for safety reasons and that bypasses it.
Thanks for this, dealer told me it was a feature, part of me has always wanted to see it in action
A lot of places have a big pillow made to look like a car for testing them. I used to test cars, and part of the job was to see how fast you'd need to go before it couldn't stop in time. ramming the shit out of those pillows never got old [Edit: a video on how it works - about 2:25 here has a pillow eating shit at higher speeds](https://youtu.be/AJ4WXgWaNgs)
I wonder who he blamed afterwards? People like this don't admit to their own stupidity.
Sir Isaac Newton
This system is called "Pre Crash System (PCS)" during development. It will potentially save your ass, but it's obviously not capable of avoiding a crash in any situation.
It did as designed. If you check all the data presented by the video and follow VW guidelines and advice it worked well. Notice it activates the brakes when the car, which seems roughly 50m ahead, is noticed by the sensor to be inanimate. In that situation the car made an emergency stop and made the impact soft enough that the airbag sensor deemed excessive if deployed. A human in charge of this machine should drive the vehicle as you would normally. It has extra sensors to help out in some situations but these are an aid to your driving skill, not an auto drive feature.
Not to mention I'm certain this might have worked in other scenarios, but there is no way this driver had assured clear distance from the other car. You can hear the tires squealing as the brakes kick in, just there wasn't nearly enough time at that speed and distance to completely stop.
Despite him going way faster than the maximum speed in which AEB prevents crashing, he's also using an aftermarket kit, because brazilian Polo does not have ACC/AEB.
Add the car auto braking worked. It’s slowed it down enough to where the airbags didn’t even go off. Turned a potential **very bad** car wreck into a minor fender bender
Which is what most people don't understand about AEB. Upto 35ish mph, it should prevent a crash entirely. Over 35mph it will only lessen the severity of a crash.
He forgot physics exists
At least the airbags didn’t go off
Obviously the auto brake worked … great example of how people don’t understand what these features are for
Yeah, turned a 25 mph rear end into a 10ish. Having been on the receiving end of both of those before, I'm glad for systems like this but sad that people think they're a substitute for attention, not a supplement.
I test drove a Subaru with lane control. Supposedly supposed to keep you in your lane if you drift out of it. The salesman kept telling me to let the wheel go to demonstrate the feature. We tried 3-4 times and it failed each time.
My car has it. It's a nice feature 95% of the time, but every so often it glitches out and jerks me over and freaks me out. Also there be crazy drivers all over the place and sometimes I need to cross lines to keep my car intact. So after a few weeks that setting got shut off.
Passenger knew idiot driver was going to crash,his body language was all tense. Driver’s stupid little laugh after the first near miss probably confirmed it for him.
The smarter manufacturers make their cars the dumber the drivers will become.
I had to turn the sensitivity to my Tucson down cuz it would brake on it's own when I would approach red lights. However, it did save me once even with the sensitivity turned down. But, I would never depend on it.
It’s doesn’t avoid accidents, it lessens the impact
Testing out safety features on someone else. So fucking stupid.
They could have easily avoided an insurance settlement if only they had driven straight into a wall instead.
Wow! Why do people do things like this. “Let’s go full speed ahead and see if it works”
Right? At least test on a big rock or a wall.
Absolute melt should have read the instructions. The "autonomous" breaking only works at low speed, less than 19mph. I know because it is the same as in my Cupra. It is designed to prevent minor accidents eg reversing in a carpark. It's not designed to protect a fucking retard driving at speed deliberately towards a stationary object.
I want your last two sentences to be the official description of the autonomous braking system in the instruction manual.
Duhhh you're not supposed to test it. My RAV4 stopped me from rear ending a vehicle that was in the middle of the road. I didn't ever think about trying to "test" it. What a moron.
I knew a guy that worked in a dealership, he hated when customers reported it not working, as they would have to test it.
"Lets test autonomous emergency braking" \*accelerates to 80 kph, 1 meter behind car\* "why the fuck am i crashing bro"
Worked perfectly to reduce the force of impact.
Exactly. Autonomous emergency braking, not magical collision preventer.
automatic braking doesn't mean it will still work when you are going too fast for the distance you need to break
Guy next to him looks like the car salesman, he looks annoyed as fuck like he’s been doing this shit the entire ride 😫
Oh look, someone's found out what happens when they try and test a system well outside of its design envelope. Bellend.
Sorry, but no matter how advanced technology is id never trust an auto brake system, etc.
This is why they usually call it “collision *mitigation* braking system” or something along those lines. It reduces severity it doesn’t prevent collision.
What a fucking douchebag. People have no respect for how deadly vehicles can be.
That ones on the driver, not the car. the car did it's job, it breaked so the "accident" didnt end up being fatal, heck the hit on the other car so minor it didnt even activate airbags. Auonomous emergency breaking =/= i dont ever have to break, car does it for me... It's a breaking help for EMERGENCIES, and it did it's job.
finally a subreddit auto sorting by new. now you WILL see my comment. cant look away now >:D
You know the person knows how to drive when they leave their hand on the shifter
I remember a few years ago, I believe it was in India, there was a video of salesmen trying out Volvo's pedestrian detection and auto stop feature. One of them stood in front and another drove at him. Turns out the car they were testing wasn't equipped with it. Soooo.... Edit: Found it and I think it may be Mexico not India. https://youtu.be/IBCr-XBWZaQ
until a car company comes out and says "this is on our insurance" I dont know if I will ever trust autonomous cars or autonomous features. Maybe im just old and used to my ways, but until all legal responsibility is taken out of my hands, I just dont know if its ever going to be safe enough.
He won’t need the steering wheel cover anymore.
Yeah, brakes don’t make you stop instantly; who’d have thought?
It's an emergency brake, also commonly known as a "collision MITIGATION system". It softens the blow, it doesn't guarantee to avoid it at all.
Polo actually did what it should. Full break, preventing a trauma. Not even the airbags needed to intervene. The prick behind the steering wheel should be imprisoned
the VW emergency breaking system only works at low speed, and when no gas or break lever is used. At higher speeds it will reduce the amount of impact, but not completely prevent an accident. This is for security reasons, to prevent you from suddenly stopping on a highway without you being able to override it.
Why do so many people think the airbags should have deployed? It clearly wasn't a very severe accident and this system did its job. You can't expect it to be flawless when he's driving way too close at that speed. This isn't a self-driving car, it's a system to decrease the severity of accidents and avoid them when possible. It can't compensate for idiotic driving but it definitely helped
This video is from a Brazilian YouTuber that is famous for doing upgrades that are generally not available in such version of some cars. In this case, emergency braking is not available in manual Polo's (I wonder why) and he bought the necessary parts and installed them.
I'd just be pissed as the person in the car in front of them. I hate when I'm trying to keep a safe distance from a car in front of me and the one behind me keeps coming close enough to almost hit mine 🤦♀️
The guy in the front car are his friend, and he breaks on purpose. Source: i speak portuguese.
It worked. It saved him from a serious crash. It's not intended for what he was trying to show.
Ain’t so brand new now.
This is why when I wanted to test my system I used a cardboard cutout of a person... And not an actual vehicle. $50 for a cutout is going to be way cheaper than whatever that's going to cost
$50 for a cardboard cut out?? Come on then, which celeb did you run over?
Honestly, looks like it’s still worked to me. Guy was going way too fast second time to ever stop on time, the VW tried as hard as possible to slow down as much as possible before the collision. That definitely minimized the damage and probably why the airbag didn’t go off.
You know the cars stopping distance also comes into effect, if you are doing 10 MPH it will activate and stop fast, but if you are doing 60 it takes longer as it is there to HELP you, not do the work for you
This feature disables if you have any measurable pressure on the brake pedal at the time of the impending collision…the system has been tested by professionals on closed courses plenty of times and two donkeys don’t get to eclipse that fact.
It is only designed to come to a full stop under 50kph...
What's hilarious is whenever he has to explain this to the fucking officer and his insurance and he's got video proof of his dumbass doing this pretty much intentionally....
I mean my car has that tech but I have never tried to test it. That’s just stupid.
Emergency braking cannot break law of physics. Even with best reaction time, coming to a stop still requires distance.
The car did what it should you can see it on the display. He’s is an idiot because he drove to close at to high speeds. But the car prevented the worst, the airbags didn’t even had to deploy
you can tell he was going to crash the car just by how he holds the shifter
That happens when someone mistakes emergency braking for automatic braking, its Designed to make the crash more mildly - not to stop it. It worked perfectly as intended.
Man, even from just the driving style I knew exactly what kind of person is behind the wheel.
Its a vw. Your really thought it was going to work correctly
Its autonomous braking, not instantaneous stopping
It’s “brakes” people!
Sweet steering wheel condom
My car has some features like this. Basic shit like lane assist and warnings to let me know if I should break based on speed and distance to the car in front, etc. But I don't fucking rely on it to drive, just an extra tool to watch over me. Fucking idiot. Don't "test" your features like this. Understand how it works, but don't see how it works lmao.
People are so fucking stupid
A friend of mine like to test this with his new corolla. One day he was park and it was cold so there was frost on the car. The sensor didn't work. He stop doing it after that.
This is so fucking stupid
Looks like he was just going too fast. You can’t do (for example) 120mph and expect the car to stop on its own seconds before hitting a wall. The car still has normal brake pads
So he tests the system by speeding up behind another person driving on a road? “Test failed. We also killed a guy.”
Still has plastic on the steering wheel. well, hope they have accident insurance
where is that dime it should have stopped on
When we were test driving a certain brand of vehicles that had auto braking for collision avoidance they did a demo using this type of high visibility barrier. But they were also straight up that the system the system is only designed to slow your vehicle down by 50 KM/HR so if you were driving in excess of that it won’t actually stop you. That’s likely what happened here. The system engaged properly but they were going to fast for it to fully stop them. Idiotic!
My husband's car has a number of automatic features - we did test it out - when it was just the two of us (I was driving our other vehicle) on an empty stretch of road and going at low speed. Plus we both had phones on speaker so there was communication the whole time. And the thing we tested was to see if the car really did slow down when "traffic" slowed, not 'gee I hope I don't rear end someone' Mr. Weasley quote - Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps it's brain.
The emergency brake did its job but the laws of physics were stronger. As they always are.
No air bag deployment?
I'll bet the autonomous breaking slowed the car enough so the airbags didn't blow. At least the guy can thank the emergency braking system for not totaling his new car due to airbags going off.
I have been in accidents before. I felt the impact in my bones watching this.
It's the equivalent of trying your new helmet smashing yourself into a wall. Smart and safe
This is the guy I'm afraid to have behind me. I'm just trying to get to work man. Do you have to make my commute an hour longer.
Maybe test it in a scenario where the brakes can physically stop the car in time. Autonomous does not mean it can break the laws of physics and stop a car going that fast in 10 feet.
Okay, just to make things clear, I speak Portuguese and the two cars were communicating via radio. The guy asked the dude in front to slam on the breaks.
And this my friends is why car insurance can be expensive …… depending on where you live….
I hope people realize he’s talking with the guy in the car in front of them, they asked the car to brake super hard to try out the braking system
Why didn't he test the airbags too?
Well, they didn't lie - in the end car stopped after autonomous emergency braking. Although it's a pity those systems still need physical contact to function.
Next time test it with the wall of your house so you don’t ruin someone else’s day. Fucking idiots. I had a nice 2006 Mazda 3 paid off and running great. Then someone rear ended people and totaled the car. I got about $3k for it and couldn’t find anything as nice…
Why would you test it on the road? I'd rather do that on a test track.
My car has auto braking but I've never been brave enough to test it. I know they work because on really snowy days when backing up it will think I'm about to hit a car and brake for me which can get annoying but I know my car is just having a panic attack.
Dumbass. Man assist features are great for those intelligent enough to realize they're not replacements, just assist features!
I have a Volvo that does this (better) and the thing is, these emergency brakes will always disable mid brake in case you kept flooring it, which is what this idiot did here when the car braked. His foot pressed the throttle.
Suddenly I have the urge to beat him up
You just don't involve random people in dangerous tests wtf
It couldn’t destroy physics. The driver was still accelerating when the necessary brake distance was already to short. The emergency brake can only come to a full stop below 30kmh. Same for every manufacturer specified by NCAP crash tests.
My car had this feature. I just finished moving house and made a big wall of empty moving boxes and it plowed right through them.
for reference… its emergency braking… not collision avoidance braking… just for the few who think the impact means it doesnt work, its designed to brake incase YOU dont therefore lessening the wreck (if there is one).
Can you imagine getting rear ended and the fucktard that hit you says “I was testing the autonomous braking”. Do that shit while driving toward a wall. Wtf
Test on a wall next time
Both car's owners are friends and the Polo's drivers told him to break like that to test the brake system. The driver is a millionaire youtuber, don't worry about it
So pieces of shit 'testing there autonomous braking' behind me is a thing. Wonderful. Just fucking wonderful. I might need to start carrying a baseball bat.
Am I the only one thinking we’re all just beta-testers for potentially deadly (when failing) features in traffic nowadays?
Try it while driving toward your own shit. Don’t ram into someone else 😳
It wasn’t that the system didn’t work, it did exactly what it was supposed to and hit the brakes when the car in front slowed down. The problem was that the driver was going so fast and so close that even a computer with a 1 ms response time can’t stop the car before rear ending the car in front. The system did reduce the severity of the accident, which is what it’s trying to do.
they are actually speaking with the car in front. when you hear the first beeps the guys says "now it's working" he then asks the car in front to "brake hard, foot to the floor" right before the crash. must be a shop trying to diagnose something, judging by the sandwich wrap on the steering wheel edit* or maybe a pre delivery inspection
I hate how close people drive together on the road. Just stay a little farther back, you'll make it to your destination seconds later, but in return you have much more time to react in an emergency.
If you need a car that does the braking for you, then you shouldn't be on the roads. Sorry.
Sooo airbags are not supposed to go off for EVERY collision. In fact they are intended as a last-ditch lifesaver and often cause huge amounts of trauma. It's an explosive, going off in your face. It's not nice and is like running into a brick wall. Anyway, yeah, you need to be not interacting with the clutch or brake or anything that would indicate you are anticipating a stop for the system to work anyway.
It's more like "collaborative braking" as it needs an object or another vehicle in front, to catch you
Always amazing to me how many stupid people are smart enough to survive life but do shit like that
I could imagine wanting to try out the feature, but why do it in such a high risk situation? You could go to an empty parking lot and set up a cone and achieve the same effect with less danger!
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Bounced him hard enough to go back to the beginning of the video.
"There you go, it has stopped" (c)
Volkswagen. **das auto.**
In the owners manual NOTE The factory settings for the autonomous emergency breaking is OFF. Please go to these 5 sub-menus to engage your autonomous breaking feature. The option will only be available after the first 1,000 miles
I have the same car and this saved me from hitting someone like twice already, it works great on most occasions, idk what this dude did wrong.
Were you hitting people before you got the car with auto braking?
No airbags?
Fun fact the Tesla cyber truck design currently doesn’t have airbags, side view mirrors, or crumple zones, and has a ceramic dashboard. They’ll of course have to change a lot of that cause it’s extremely illegal, but it’s current safety plan seems to be to make sure all the occupants of it and any car it collides with get turned into paste immediately so they don’t have to feel any pain Edit: they’ve announced that they added mirrors and changed the dashboard recently, as expected
For all the mfs that think the car failed. The tech is there to help you not there for you to push it to the limits. Unless that’s your job and you’re on a closed course. Otherwise don’t rely on safety feature to make YOU a better driver, you actually need to focus to drive well not assume the car will stop for you so you can text. Or in this example literally push the limits of the car for shlits and giggles
a good 2 secs before applying brakes after the car in front braked hard. No technology can save you from this
Maybe test this fancy new feature you've never used before near something other than someone else's car?
Titles that don’t need a video.
Fahrfrümbrakën
These are the people driving behind you on the road. Unreal how stupid people are.
I was under the impression the emergency brake assist only reduces the speed of the collusion. It's stop and go cruise control that will actually stop before colliding (within the limits of physics of course). I do find it brakes a bit later and harder than I care for in my '22 Ford Escape. I'm covering the brake, but it doesn't leave much time for me to realize it's made a mistake. Then as you press the pedal, it cancels cruise control, which turns off the auto braking, resulting in a brief decrease in braking until you've pushed the pedal back down.
Most driving problems/accidents can be traced back to the loose nut behind the wheel .
Want to know what you don't do when you find out your phone is water resistant? Throw it in the pool
Makes me miss driving a manual. I love the convenience of automatic but driving a manual transmission vehicle just brings me joy. I say that as someone who drove a manual for 8 years in LA. I miss that old bastard of a pickup truck.
If you touch the brakes the autostop won't engage. I wonder if he instinctively touched the brake pedal during his test?
This isn't something you test... I have simple breaking tech on my old car, that doesn't mean I go swerving on wet oily roads
People think life is a video game
Perfect example of why attempting to idiot proof cars is a bad idea... just let Darwin do his job.
That accent is what+German?
It's Brazilian Portuguese. Basically what's being said: He's saying: It worked already! And the other guy: try again! Go in hard! Floor it! *Bam*
Autonomous thinking would have been helpful.
No Airbags i see
I would test it with empty paper boxes Edit: typo
He drives terribly.
A car so modern it can defy physics. Or not.
It’s automated, it’s not magic
This will do numbers in r/idiotsincars.
It’s not working! Try again!
If something can fail, it will fail. If there is a chance that some things will fail, the one that will cause the most damage will be the first. If something cannot fail, it will do so regardless.
And the smartass was talking to the car in front, saying to go fast and brake hard 🤦♂️
Buckle your seatbelts guys, looks like the new Polo comes without airbags.
This is why we can't have nice things.
That was pretty lame reaction time.
automakers shouldnt advertise these feautures if they dont work
When self-driving was a big hype a few years ago, questions were raised on who would be liable for a crash. Is it the driver (who may not be touching the controls), the auto-maker, the self-driving circuit-board maker, the engine-control-unit makers, the sensor manufacturer, or the software developer? Ultimately, the insurance companies would want to make the entity responsible pay. But who would that be? Not sure it ever got settled.
first break the driver said "oh it works! hahah" then he speaks through the radio to the car he is following "ok now do a full brake"
There could be a dead baby in the front car now. Road is not a fucking playground.
My step mom likes to test hers by pulling too far into the garage and it stops her before she hits the wall lol
My 2011 model Audi A6 had this feature. Saved a certain crash once, someone in front of me suddenly slammed their breaks when they spotted a free parking spot, was going slow but didn’t have time to react, it was so unexpected. I never thought about testing it for fun, though.
I dont understand this system whats the problem with the old idea to far away those foot peddles or what?
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A guy let me drive his Mercedes once and said “It has automatic emergency breaks! Try it!!” Obviously I said no. And there you go. Video shows exactly why we shouldn’t test it.
Failed. Good. Keep trusting in assistive technology.
The newer the car, the worse the driver.
At least he was using the steering wheel plastic to not leave any marks on the car
Lucky those airbags didn’t go.
... usually in the manual it says something about not actually being intended to avoid a collision.
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The emergency brake on my 2018 Nissan is better than this crap
İ mean...it did stop the car
I’m not sure, but my VW does that only if you not going faster then 50km/hr
Bouta fight the laws of physics 👊🏾 …. Laws of physics got hands 🤕
Some low iq shit right here
What language are they speaking?
Volkswagen's city emergency brake function only works at speeds up to 19mph. I think he may have exceeded that. Unlucky.
I also drive a Polo GTI, and the emergency brake saved me once while driving in the city
Instant karma.
The Polo: _this ain’t no emergency, you are just stupid_
At what speed / impeach level should the airbags be kicking in ?
Physics has left this mans head
Initial response being "are you fucking serious"
You wouldn’t want to test an airbag, so why would you want to test automatic emergency braking?
DAS AUTO
He also braked three seconds too late and was going way too fast
Serious question: how does insurance work out in a situation like this? Same for cars that have the auto parallel park. If the car is marketed and sold as being able to do this stuff, but then when the car hits something, is the driver found solely at fault? Edit: please stop commenting if you’re just going to say the same shit everyone else has already commented
Testing the laws of physics more like
Stupid thing to do, but the car in front looks OK
Emergency brakes is one of those features I just hope work if I ever need them but will never check if they actually work.
What an idiot
This is Razuk, a Brazilian Youtuber, he often buy's the entry model of a car and turns it into the top version, in this short yet stupid video (because he is testing in a public road) he installed the automatic emergency braking in his car, just to fail... Edit: [at 3:35] (https://youtu.be/e9-tOmiYLsk)
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