HelixDab2 comments on What is the scariest/creepiest theory you know about?

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 16 points 2 years ago (4 children)

While it might be possible to remotely control a production car, cars now are safe enough that you'd need to have a lot of systems fail in order to ensure that an accident would be fatal. Things like, all the crumple zones not working as intended, airbags not going off, seat belts not locking properly, all at once. Or you could, I dunno, design the car so that the doors were only controlled electronically, and then ensure that if there was a fire or the car was submerged, the electronics failed (e.g., Teslas).

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[–] yamanii@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Too high level, it's way cheaper to just hire a dude to cause an accident with a big vehicle like a truck, no passenger car can survive.

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[–] jkrtn@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago

Doors not opening in a fire should end the company that made them. Not sure how this company still exists.

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[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Yeah, guaranteeing a crash fatal is pretty hard. But doing anything weird to a car while it's traveling 70 on a highway with traffic has a pretty good chance of killing occupants. If you could make the brakes on just one wheel lock suddenly, you'd have quite a hairy situation.

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