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    Image of skitter skitter
    10/26/09

    In reply to 2010 Volvo S60 Can Detect, Automatically Avoid Pedestrians
    I dreamed that I could not engage a gear, that my machine was in a battle with unknown enemies, and joined with other more perfect machines. They were cared for by people who occupied the same spaces, but could not be seen at the same time. And though in the end the machines were turned off, they were saved for future generations.

    And Ray Bradbury said 'Let there be an endless cycle.'

    Upon reflection, I realized that the machines were engaging us as an enemy, with perfection and inevitability as their anthem, and they were embraced by many from the past, present and future. They are born in the futures of our imaginations, and simultaneously salvaged from our pasts, with only fragments of comprehension. #volvos60
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    10/26/09

    In reply to 2010 Volvo S60 Can Detect, Automatically Avoid Pedestrians
    Great job, Volvo, you just ensured your car will never be featured in another Hollywood movie. #volvos60
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    10/26/09

    In reply to 2010 Volvo S60 Can Detect, Automatically Avoid Pedestrians
    Good idea, wrong execution. It needs to automatically accelerate for maximum point scoring. #volvos60
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    10/26/09

    In reply to 2010 Volvo S60 Can Detect, Automatically Avoid Pedestrians
    You can't run over hippies now? Dammit! The only incentive in buying a tank like Volvo is that... #volvos60
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    10/26/09

    @FTGDWolverineEdition'09: I believe it comes with checkbox options of types of people you choose to avoid hitting:

    [ ] Hippies
    [ ] Vagrants
    [ ] Teenagers
    [ ] Hipsters
    [ ] Fixies
    [X] Old People
    [ ] Bankers
    [X] 300lbs+
    [ ] People talking on cell phones
    [ ] Mimes/Clowns #volvos60
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    10/26/09

    In reply to 2010 Volvo S60 Can Detect, Automatically Avoid Pedestrians
    Now if every car were equipped with such a system, NYC could get right-on-red back. #volvos60
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    10/26/09

    In reply to 2010 Volvo S60 Can Detect, Automatically Avoid Pedestrians
    seriously though, you wouldn't want to be driving this car in a bad neighborhood, a riot situation or car jacking. #volvos60
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    10/26/09

    In reply to 2010 Volvo S60 Can Detect, Automatically Avoid Pedestrians
    when the zombie apocalypse comes, the occupants of this car will come to a hasty demise. #volvos60
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    Image of that ain't the way to have fun, son that ain't the way to have fun, son
    10/26/09

    In reply to 2010 Volvo S60 Can Detect, Automatically Avoid Pedestrians
    On the US West Coast, if you managed to get to your destination, you'd have bald tires, need brakes, and be violently ill.

    "Cars yield the way to pedestrians, it's the LAW!"

    Um, yeah, human law. I yield to more massive things, if possible, instead of allowing some arbitrary social law to change physics. #volvos60
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    10/26/09

    In reply to 2010 Volvo S60 Can Detect, Automatically Avoid Pedestrians
    Will this mean that I can drink and drive? #volvos60
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    10/26/09

    @skaycog: You mean you aren't now?! #volvos60
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    10/26/09

    In reply to 2010 Volvo S60 Can Detect, Automatically Avoid Pedestrians
    I sure hope there's a Zombie-smash override switch! #volvos60
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    10/26/09

    @pantsonfireliarliar: if Volvo was TRULY safety minded, the pedestrian detection algorithm would automagically distinguish between the living and the undead by analyzing not only speed and direction of travel, but also gait, head angle, and arm carriage.

    best carry a shotgun for the time being. #volvos60
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    10/26/09

    In reply to 2010 Volvo S60 Can Detect, Automatically Avoid Pedestrians
    I like the idea, but it needs a more sensitive recognition program to strike a better balance between protecting pedestrians and incentivizing pedestrians to pay attention to traffic.

    Child/Elderly Exception:
    Under 4' tall, using a walker or cane: Full stop

    Everybody Else with No Aggravated Circumstances: Slight bump

    Aggravated Circumstances:
    1. Talking on cell phone/texting, generally not paying attention: Knock them on their hind ends.

    2. Skinny jeans, fixed gear bike, and weaving through traffic: Knock them off their bikes and back over the bikes. #volvos60
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    10/26/09

    In reply to 2010 Volvo S60 Can Detect, Automatically Avoid Pedestrians
    Excellent. Soon the time when I can sleep all the way to work will be here. #volvos60
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    10/26/09

    @Touched: I combat that with just sleeping at work. When I am not on Jalop of course. #volvos60
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    10/26/09

    In reply to 2010 Volvo S60 Can Detect, Automatically Avoid Pedestrians
    Yes, but could my grandmother turn it off for when she needs to go to the farmer's market? #volvos60
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    Image of lventura001 lventura001
    10/26/09

    In reply to 2010 Volvo S60 Can Detect, Automatically Avoid Pedestrians
    So if the car hits a pedestrian who is responsible the driver or automaker ?
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    10/26/09

    In reply to 2010 Volvo S60 Can Detect, Automatically Avoid Pedestrians
    I seem to remember learning how to do this in DRIVER'S ED! #volvos60
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    10/26/09

    @POLAЯ ON PЯOBATION: That's old-school, yo. #volvos60
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