Re: OT what safety features would you look for in a new car?

Posted by paul on September 24, 2018 at 13:30:43 from (76.77.197.114):

In Reply to: OT what safety features would you look for in a new car? posted by GEO-TH, In on September 24, 2018 at 09:28:08:

I am unfamiliar with the ‘active’ safety features we hear about, lane tracking, applying brakes on their own, and so.

As such, I’m kinda concerned about and would avoid those things. I’m not a trusting soul......

My pickup has the tire inflation pressures on the dash, as all new vehicles have. What they didn’t tell us is after 5-8 years, the batteries wear out and you need to replace them, at $90 a wheel. As I tend to own vehicles a long time, I’m kinda miffed that these are considered consumable items and have such a high price tag to replace. Since erratic pressure readings make the dash flash and go all nuts, it’s hard to just ignore them as it is.......

Being around computers since learning to use punch cards, and selling consumer computers for a short period, I’ve watched the quality of programming and upgrades on each version of Windows and even iOS go from pretty good to here’s the new version, screw you we don’t care if it messes up every piece of software you own that’s not our problem....

As such, these increasingly complicated computer controls kinda scare me.

I realize the end goal is for everyone to lease a vehicle as in a driverless Uber - or a taxi cab on speed dial as it were; it will be personal transportation without a driver in urban areas. Then folks can be hauled around and stay on their cell phone texting the entire trip, not be bothered to look up at the road 20% of the time as they do now......

As a farmer with more stuff to haul than just me and a sack of groceries in the low populated long distance rural areas, that model of transportation won’t work well.

I wonder what will happen to us rural folk. When your Uber driverless car fails in the metro area there are several dozen within a mile of you one can be rerouted in 2 minutes. When it’s 20 below out here in the country 20 miles from the next town will Uber pay my funeral expenses at least?

I’ve strayed a lot, but I’m both concerned and bemused at the direction this is going. We are coming a long way from the movie “American Graffiti” and the goals and aspirations and excitement of the past.

Paul

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• Re: OT what safety features would you look for in a new car? Geo-TH,In 15:45:30 09/24/18 (0)

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