That you're talking about both collision detection and economics is very telling for the issues a lot of people have with things like these.
When an economist predicts a heightened probability of a recession, people believe the economist, and adjust their investments to avoid it, this is seen as a failure in prediction.
Yet when a collision detection system detects a collision, and the car brakes to avoid the collision, this is also a false positive as no collision happened!
It's not clear why people see these as different. When the system takes the prediction into account to avoid the predicted calamity, we shouldn't see that as a failure in prediction.
When an economist predicts a heightened probability of a recession, people believe the economist, and adjust their investments to avoid it, this is seen as a failure in prediction.
Yet when a collision detection system detects a collision, and the car brakes to avoid the collision, this is also a false positive as no collision happened!
It's not clear why people see these as different. When the system takes the prediction into account to avoid the predicted calamity, we shouldn't see that as a failure in prediction.