re: Would you buy a new vehicle without these safety features?

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Pre-collision braking

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Data from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) shows that rear-end collisions are cut by 50 percent for vehicles equipped with AEB and forward collision warning (FCW).

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You'd be pretty stupid to not want this.

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Data from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) shows that rear-end collisions are cut by 50 percent for vehicles equipped with AEB and forward collision warning (FCW).

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Or people could stop staring at a phone and not slam into the person in front of them. But you're right, that's probably way too much to ask today and the electronic nanny can offset stupidity.

Funny how driving a manual would solve a lot of these issues, just because you actually have to be involved while you drive the car.

Lane departure is helpful when you drink few

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people could stop staring at a phone and not slam into the person in front of them.

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You're an idiot for thinking it's just to stop people from rear ending you. Most rear end accidents are from people not hitting the brakes hard enough. The emergency braking adds sensitivity to the brakes to prevent you from rear ending the dumbass that pulls out in front of you or slams their brakes because they messed up.

Yes

I turned all of that off on my wife’s highlander.

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those safety features are the reason why car and insurance cost is out of control.

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And windshield replacement costs have skyrocketed due to “calibration”

I grew up driving a truck on the farm with no brakes or seat belt and the bench seat slid around cause it wasn’t bolted down.

Engine leaked oil so bad out the valve covers you had to drive with your head out of the window because of the smoke pouring through the vents


So no I don’t need all of that

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Not taking a car on a long road trip without adaptive cruise control

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I’ll always have one vehicle with super cruise. So nice on long trips.

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Yea I will say mine is way too fricking sensitive. Ill be a good bit behind someone turning on a side street and itll start going crazy/ apply the break. I need to go in and turn off the auto breaking. I like the alert just not the breaking.

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I have the Sonata. Pretty sure you can go in and change the distance setting so it doesn't go off as frequently. Mine will beep when I get pretty close to someone, but has almost never applied the breaks itself.