They are removing brake pedals to make it easier to put these vehicles on the road. Can someone explain to me the logic? On a sidenote, if there’s no manual brake pedal if there’s no physical way for me to stop that car that override what the car is doing I’m not getting in.
So, this is for 100% automated cabs. There would be no driver controls whatsoever in these. That way you can use every seat for a passenger. But there is a federal requirement for a brake pedal. This means despite there being no steering wheel, a brake pedal would still be present. But why? There’s a whole bunch of extra hardware for the pedal, and it will never actually be used in normal operation. So that regulation needs to be removed if there are no other human controls to enable robot.
I don’t have an opinion for or against robot cabs. Just explaining what it’s going on here.
They are removing brake pedals to make it easier to put these vehicles on the road. Can someone explain to me the logic? On a sidenote, if there’s no manual brake pedal if there’s no physical way for me to stop that car that override what the car is doing I’m not getting in.
SMAE! Brake Pedal, Brake Lever, something or it’s a NOPE right outa there!
So, this is for 100% automated cabs. There would be no driver controls whatsoever in these. That way you can use every seat for a passenger. But there is a federal requirement for a brake pedal. This means despite there being no steering wheel, a brake pedal would still be present. But why? There’s a whole bunch of extra hardware for the pedal, and it will never actually be used in normal operation. So that regulation needs to be removed if there are no other human controls to enable robot.
I don’t have an opinion for or against robot cabs. Just explaining what it’s going on here.