> Will stopping actually work given the conditions, my payload
If there is rain and/or your payload is heavy, that increases your braking distance, so accordingly detection should either work further ahead or your speed would have to be reduced to allow for safe braking.
> is the object moving toward me
This is a very valid point. If not all vehicles are autonomous, even on a well-protected highway it is possible to have a cascading accident caused by human mistake. This would even be an issue if all vehicles are autonomous, since some could be hijacked by owners.
In my view this type of “dumb” object detection for emergency braking purposes should work together with contextually aware AI-based overall autonomy, not instead of it. Upthread I wrote “an autopilot should not be entrusted to decide further”, which was perhaps ambiguous—meant that in context of an anomaly ahead.
If there is rain and/or your payload is heavy, that increases your braking distance, so accordingly detection should either work further ahead or your speed would have to be reduced to allow for safe braking.
> is the object moving toward me
This is a very valid point. If not all vehicles are autonomous, even on a well-protected highway it is possible to have a cascading accident caused by human mistake. This would even be an issue if all vehicles are autonomous, since some could be hijacked by owners.
In my view this type of “dumb” object detection for emergency braking purposes should work together with contextually aware AI-based overall autonomy, not instead of it. Upthread I wrote “an autopilot should not be entrusted to decide further”, which was perhaps ambiguous—meant that in context of an anomaly ahead.