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Al Hasse
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RSFreak
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The car "senses danger"?!?! I'm skeptical... 
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aaron_sK
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Already been done. IIRC Lexus had a swerve assist thing, kept you in your lane if the infrared picked up a car next to you when you tried to change. Volvos and expensive Fords parallel park.
Problem is when system like that fail. Then you're well and truly screwed.
Not to mention that this is yet another device that contributes to driving ignorance. Nobody can drive anymore. Plain and simple. Cars are built to remove you from the driving experience, and make it easier to text, eat, screw, and generally be a f***ing moron and do anything but actually operate the two-ton machine you're riding in. |
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chevymad
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| Volvo was just recently showing off their automatic braking system to a bunch of journalists.. It failed spectacularly.. Ran right into the back of the parked truck they had set up. Car sat their in a puddle of oil steaming! LOL |
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cameron7710
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| Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 10:45 am Post subject: |
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| aaron_sK wrote: | .
Not to mention that this is yet another device that contributes to driving ignorance. Nobody can drive anymore. Plain and simple. Cars are built to remove you from the driving experience, and make it easier to text, eat, screw, and generally be a f***ing moron and do anything but actually operate the two-ton machine you're riding in. |
100% agree with this every one on the road is a idiot every time i go some where i end up have to do something to avoid and accident from some one talking on a phone and not paying attention to the road
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Al Hasse
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| Well, I was actually looking more at the humor in the video. Thought it was quite funny when he repeated "Sorry" to the Reaper after recomposing himself from the near miss. |
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Twilightoptics
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| Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 12:04 pm Post subject: |
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| aaron_sK wrote: | | Cars are built to...make it easier to... screw, and generally... f***. |
 
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QwkTrip
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| aaron_sK wrote: | | Cars are built to remove you from the driving experience, and make it easier to text, eat, screw, and generally be a f***ing moron and do anything but actually operate the two-ton machine you're riding in. |
Only in America. 
Drive somewhere else and you'll see that it takes all your attention just to stay alive. |
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91RSVert
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| Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 12:39 pm Post subject: |
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How does the car know the road conditions, texture, and grip of whatever brand tire you have to stop you in time?
Another gimmic to sell cars. |
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aaron_sK
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| Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 3:44 pm Post subject: |
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| Way to edit, Paul. |
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Twilightoptics
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Well if Fox News can do it... Why can't I? 
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aaron_sK
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| Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 4:10 pm Post subject: |
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| Twilightoptics wrote: | | Well if Fox News can do it... Why can't I? |
Sh*t, I said "edit" not "make stuff up and rape kittens"...  |
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Twilightoptics
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| Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 4:50 pm Post subject: |
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| aaron_sK wrote: | | Twilightoptics wrote: | | Well if Fox News can do it... Why can't I? |
Sh*t, I said "edit" not "make stuff up and rape kittens"... |
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RSFreak
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| Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 5:28 pm Post subject: |
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| QwkTrip wrote: | | aaron_sK wrote: | | Cars are built to remove you from the driving experience, and make it easier to text, eat, screw, and generally be a f***ing moron and do anything but actually operate the two-ton machine you're riding in. |
Only in America.
Drive somewhere else and you'll see that it takes all your attention just to stay alive. |
Unless you're Aaron, then you just make them all get out of your way! Seriously, have any of you actually been a passenger with Aaron at the wheel?!?! Yellow lights be damned!!! 
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d00012
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| Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 6:24 pm Post subject: |
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| QwkTrip wrote: | | aaron_sK wrote: | | Cars are built to remove you from the driving experience, and make it easier to text, eat, screw, and generally be a f***ing moron and do anything but actually operate the two-ton machine you're riding in. |
Only in America.
Drive somewhere else and you'll see that it takes all your attention just to stay alive. |
Except LSD. Those people know how to drive in Chicago! Like they are in the 24 Hours of Le Mans or something.
Top Gear tested this Mercedes and from what I saw (briefly) it actually stopped itself in normal traffic (actually uses radar to detect the cars in front of you and matches their speed). I'm not sure about this "sensing danger" nonsense. |
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Twilightoptics
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| chevymad wrote: | | Volvo was just recently showing off their automatic braking system to a bunch of journalists.. It failed spectacularly.. Ran right into the back of the parked truck they had set up. Car sat their in a puddle of oil steaming! LOL |
Where's the video?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eChAKm1t3U
Beauty is... if it was a Volvo Truck.... the other truck would have crapped its pants and gotten out of the way.
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chevymad
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| Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 7:07 pm Post subject: |
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| Ya, thats the vid. How embarassing would that be? I bet somebody lost some pay/job over that one. |
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aaron_sK
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Seems the automatic wiper system also overreacted. 
If you're to lazy to press the brake pedal, you're sure as s**t to lazy to turn a knob for wipers. |
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chevymad
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| Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 7:21 pm Post subject: |
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| My father inlaw figured out the automatic wipers the hard way. Took the neighbors caddy through a car wash.. yup.. they turned on.. and got wrapped in one of the brushes! |
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