the only life a republican values (other than their own) is that of a fetus, and even that is temporary.
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And only if the fetus ain't miscegenated...
Capping the luxury features and size of passenger vehicles would do a lot more to bring down costs than removing safety features.
The average cost isn't the problem; the base cost is.
There are good arguments for limiting vehicle size and weight for safety reasons, but that's a separate issue.
Yep, that $2 sensor is really driving up costs.
And running the wiring with the rear lights wiring is sooooooo expensive to install.
Compact cars are all in the low $20,000 range, so I don't know what affordability problem they're talking about for vehicles. Oh, that's right, many Americans have an insatiable desire for mobile fortresses that cost $100,000. Well, I'm sure not having ABS or rear cameras on those will turn out well for everyone else and shave off $500.
And I've never been inconvenienced by an alert that I had stuff in the back seat after a trip to the grocery store. It keeps forgetful parents from leaving their kids in hot cars, especially in the aforementioned parking lot tanks.
I basic light truck ran $19k in 19. A sedan, $14k.
Wages haven’t gone up.
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Buddy my whole car was $500 and I have an insatiable desire to keep it that way. Less components not more across the board please. I don't know what kind of bougie-ass bubble you're living in where a cheap car is $20k, but I sure hope it pops while we've still got a planet
I'm talking about new compact car prices, not used car prices, because the article is talking about attempting to bring down new car prices by removing safety features.
Car prices have always been around that much, adjusted for inflation.
OMFG, these things (I can't call them people) are monsters [get rid of rear-seat reminders]!
Let R's own making seatbelts optional.
I’ll say it: Ditching ABS is horrifically stupid, but mandating backup cameras and backseat alarms is equally stupid in the opposite direction.
E: The article is talking about full-auto emergency braking and not ABS. I never thought I’d say these words, but I’m with Ted Cruz on this one.
Mandating backup cameras is not stupid. There’s a legitimate blind spot that has caused numerous child deaths. It’s okay for a car to cost a little more if it means it’s less likely to kill someone.
No comment on backseat alarms.
Are the backseat alarms smart enough to only alert when there's something back there yet? Otherwise it seems like it's just an annoyance or something that people will start to mentally filter out.
They seem to use weight to determine if a person is in a seat so they will mistake anything considered a significant enough weight as a person. Doesn't keep you from turning the car off or anything just dings and puts an alert up on the screen.
Thanks, the few times I've been in a car with that feature it seemed to just go off no matter what and was super annoying.
Ugh, I hope it's better than the last car I drove, couldn't set groceries on the seat or it'd trigger the seatbelt alarm.
Seatbelt alarm seems to need more weight than the backseat check alarm.
That sounds absolutely ridiculous. What's the point of needing less weight to set off backseat alarms? A gallon of water is only like 4kg and that's enough to set off seatbelt alarms.
Fucked if I know. All I know is groceries haven't set off the seatbelt alarm while car/boosterseats set off the check backset alarm.
If I open the back doors of my car before I get in the driver's seat and drive it then I'll get the notification when I shut the car off.
With a backup camera comes a video screen necessarily in view of the driver, contributing to distracted driving at all times the vehicle is not in reverse. How many kids have been killed because of such distractions?
The mandate isn’t that cars have infotainment screens, it’s that they have backup cameras. The choice to use the infotainment screen is the automakers, not the regulators. Early backup cameras had the screen embedded behind the rearview mirror, which was a much safer solution IMO. But cost cutting killed that because it was a second screen.
That could have been the mandate. They could have mandated that be the only allowable screen. It shows what's behind you, and that's it. No distractions tolerated. No pop-up logos or other advertising. No driving controls on that screen. Touch screen disabled while in motion, with all essential functions actuated by physical controls.
But they didn't. They mandated a rearview and monitor, but didn't restrict its use. And that failure has probably caused more injuries and deaths than it has prevented.
Okay so we should do either everything or nothing, no solutions can exist between extremes. Got it 🙄
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Not just Ted. Legacy auto too. You should see what Chinese EVs have been doing to Euro NCAP lately.
NHTSA last year required automatic braking systems in new cars starting in 2029; automakers have tried to block the rule from taking effect, arguing NHTSA’s standards are impractical and could cause rear-end collisions by braking before drivers expect. The agency said this year that it was considering extending the deadline.
Nope, it’s screaming metal deathtrap or the feature that beeps if someone is detected picking their nose and can only be reset by the vendor.
We need ranked choice voting so badly.
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