I guess it's not supposed to be illegal if the government is pressuring them to do it. B-b
What would be wrong with the government regulating the safety of the vehicles that travel on its roadways? You can drive any old shitbox on your own property but on public roads you must respect the lives and safety of your fellow citizens.
ABS RELEASES your brakes, so the wheels can rotate,
you are making the rather brash assumption that the tires are pointed in the same direction as the car is moving. If the car is sliding and the driver is not pointing the wheel correctly then none of the tires will be lined up with the direction of travel and ABS is not going to be of any help at all, the tires will still just slide.
No, it should not be your choice. Your choice means nothing to anybody but you. However the safety of the other motorists is very much directly the business of the government, because the public roads are owned by the government and the constitution states quite directly that the government should act to protect the general welfare of the population.
Very few of the rear end collisions that this type of system protects against have fatalities.
Whiplash injuries are really horrible, the damage is permanent and painful forever. They happen even in low speed collisions. You've completely neglected the fact that whiplash injuries will be greatly reduced.
Have you driven a stick shift car? You know how you have to momentarily back off on the throttle as you shift? This has to happen in an automatic, also. This is what the mechanism does.
the "gas" pedal is nothing more than a potentiometer that feeds the master computer
In the old days before computers the gas pedal still was not directly connected to the throttle. There is a linkage from the transmission that overrides the pedal input and backs off the throttle when the transmission shifts gears. It's all mechanical.
Why don't we put some effort into human factors and get people to put their hands on the wheel and pay attention?
Humans are proven to be terrible drivers, they kill tens of thousands of people every year. "Human factors" are not going to get rid of the screaming child in the back seat and they are not going to solve the argument you are having with your spouse. Humans can and will get distracted and kill people. It happens every day. Rearraging the controls on the dashboard is not going to solve any of these problems.
People become more reliant on it and could end up paying even less attention rather than pay fucking attention to the car in front of them.
the whole point here is that humans are really poor drivers, they kill tens of thousands every year. expecting them do to better is really just folly. they need help.
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What about making the humans who are piloting them self-aware?
insanity is trying the same thing over and over again, expecting different results
in this case, expecting humans to be intelligent is pretty darned insane
We don't have a drone problem, we have a moron problem.
What is your solution? Alien overlords? Just curious.
Most people could not bring down a tree safely. Most people don't even know how protect themselves when they fall.
If people don't have to drive any more then they will have lots more time that they can use for leisure activities.
the blackhats seem to be winning.
if these are the people who are saving thousands of lives every year then I say more power to them
by the same logic they should outlaw automatic transmissions because there are things you can only do with a stick shift
I guess it's not supposed to be illegal if the government is pressuring them to do it. B-b
What would be wrong with the government regulating the safety of the vehicles that travel on its roadways? You can drive any old shitbox on your own property but on public roads you must respect the lives and safety of your fellow citizens.
The problem is the low speed limits. They make driving so boring..
People like you are why human drivers will soon be outlawed.
ABS RELEASES your brakes, so the wheels can rotate,
you are making the rather brash assumption that the tires are pointed in the same direction as the car is moving. If the car is sliding and the driver is not pointing the wheel correctly then none of the tires will be lined up with the direction of travel and ABS is not going to be of any help at all, the tires will still just slide.
Think of it this way, have you ever felt the throttle pedal 'push back' more during a shift? Y
that's not how the mechanism works
Drive an automatic car with a tachometer. Watch how the revs move when you shift, its not from you pushing on the pedal.
No, it should not be your choice. Your choice means nothing to anybody but you. However the safety of the other motorists is very much directly the business of the government, because the public roads are owned by the government and the constitution states quite directly that the government should act to protect the general welfare of the population.
Very few of the rear end collisions that this type of system protects against have fatalities.
Whiplash injuries are really horrible, the damage is permanent and painful forever. They happen even in low speed collisions. You've completely neglected the fact that whiplash injuries will be greatly reduced.
it is the same because the computer is controlling the brakes, not you
you mean its linked directly to the servo mechanism bolted to the side of the carburetor
Have you driven a stick shift car? You know how you have to momentarily back off on the throttle as you shift? This has to happen in an automatic, also. This is what the mechanism does.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_in_U.S._by_year
You complain about costs, but look at the above page to see that these "expensive" items have saved many hundreds of thousands of lives.
Nope, what ABS does is rapidly pulse the brakes for you (and much faster than you can)
so in other words the car is deciding the braking action, not you
I think you misspelt "Americans" there.
No, Americans are actually among the better drivers in the world.
Maybe you should try looking at the accident death rates for different countries.
You're thinking of electronic fuel injection
no, the oldest automatic transmissions from the 1950s and 1960s worked this way.
the real issue is that the cost of cars is going to go up again.
Who cares about human lives when you can get the premium sound package for a discount!
yeah, it's better if you don't call your wife to apologise.
the "gas" pedal is nothing more than a potentiometer that feeds the master computer
In the old days before computers the gas pedal still was not directly connected to the throttle. There is a linkage from the transmission that overrides the pedal input and backs off the throttle when the transmission shifts gears. It's all mechanical.
Why don't we put some effort into human factors and get people to put their hands on the wheel and pay attention?
Humans are proven to be terrible drivers, they kill tens of thousands of people every year. "Human factors" are not going to get rid of the screaming child in the back seat and they are not going to solve the argument you are having with your spouse. Humans can and will get distracted and kill people. It happens every day. Rearraging the controls on the dashboard is not going to solve any of these problems.
People become more reliant on it and could end up paying even less attention rather than pay fucking attention to the car in front of them.
the whole point here is that humans are really poor drivers, they kill tens of thousands every year. expecting them do to better is really just folly. they need help.
And you also have the responsibility of paying for poor decisions. .
How precisely does one bring back the dead? Do you really think that perpetrators are actually capable of restoring the damage they've caused? huh?
bullshit, no way I'm letting the car brake for me.
if you have ABS, the car is already deciding when you can brake and when you can't.
if you have an automatic transmission, the "gas" pedal is merely a "suggestion" to the system that actually controls the throttle.
if you are driving on public roadways you have already agreed to follow whatever regulations the government has decided to impose on you