Is driver-assist technology making roads safer, or is it creating lazy drivers?
When 30 cars crashed on a major highway near Myrniong in western Victoria this week, the heavy fog that has blanketed parts of the state was to blame. "Whether it's heavy rain, whether it's fog, whether it's smoke from bushfires, as climate change changes these things we're going to have to think about how we manage the conditions." "Climate change is most likely going to cause these strange conditions to pop up in places that people don't expect them," Professor Newstead said. "A lot of the cars that are on the roads right now don't actually have a lot of the technology that we're talking about," car expert Jordan Mulach said. Professor Newstead said camera-based systems, like Tesla's, did not provide the same ability to adapt to conditions, and would not have proved useful in Monday's heavy fog.
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