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re: Your used car is about to be worth tons more
Posted on 4/30/26 at 9:39 am to RobertFootball
Posted on 4/30/26 at 9:39 am to RobertFootball
I don’t drink and drive so not concerned. I also would never buy a post 2020 vehicle.
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Posted on 4/30/26 at 9:39 am to boxcarbarney
All this new technology pisses me off. My wife’s car has an auto braking feature if it deems that I’m backing up/moving forward too fast towards an obstruction. Sometimes it’s shrubs in a parking lot. The other day I was backing in and it slammed on the brakes because of the garbage can and spilled coffee everywhere. Listen motherfricker, I’ve been driving for 31 years, I don’t need you to help me fricking brake. I wanted to light it on fire.
Posted on 4/30/26 at 9:41 am to RFK
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Why would anyone be against this? If this protects society overall we should all be for it.
This line of thinking is why we will all live in cages eating bugs one day.
Here's what they will tell us:
"Your eco-enclosure is necessary to protect society. It's carbon footprint is 6% less than a traditional home and therefore slows global warming. Likewise, your mandatory insect-based diet provides optimum nutrition and eliminates the need for carbon-intensive, extractive farming methods. These adaptations are necessary for the good of all. And, of course, we will continue monitoring your driving to make sure no one travels without authorization. Now STFU and pay your taxes."
Enjoy your cage and your table salt before that's illegal too. (You know, because it's bad for the individual and therefore bad for society.)
Posted on 4/30/26 at 9:42 am to VanRIch
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All this new technology pisses me off. My wife’s car has an auto braking feature if it deems that I’m backing up/moving forward too fast towards an obstruction. Sometimes it’s shrubs in a parking lot. The other day I was backing in and it slammed on the brakes because of the garbage can and spilled coffee everywhere. Listen motherfricker, I’ve been driving for 31 years, I don’t need you to help me fricking brake. I wanted to light it on fire.
The first time I was backing into a parking spot in my truck, it slammed on the brakes automatically and scared the shite out of me.
I immediately turned that feature off.
Posted on 4/30/26 at 9:42 am to RobertFootball
This technology already exists in a lot of current gen cars
Posted on 4/30/26 at 9:49 am to Beauw
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We recently bought a Lexus that has this, it is the worst. BUT, it doesn't have the ridiculous auto shutoff thing. But the monitoring system watches your face and sounds an alert if you look to the side for longer than a second or two, I hate it.
Wife's Lexus has that feature too. After a drive down the beach and that thing dinging every time I turned my head to make sure each lady in a thong was a safe distance from the vehicle for me to proceed, I went into settings and turned that crap off.
Posted on 4/30/26 at 9:50 am to RobertFootball
Thread I made just on this topic a few days ago
I have to imagine at some point all this bullshite + the affordability and reliability issues are going to have major impacts on the market
I have to imagine at some point all this bullshite + the affordability and reliability issues are going to have major impacts on the market
Posted on 4/30/26 at 9:53 am to RobertFootball
My parents' brand new Grand Highlander has this sort shite on it. If you look to the side for any reason, you hear bells and it tells you to look forward. Crazy shite. I'd have to get that disabled.
Posted on 4/30/26 at 9:58 am to RFK
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Why would anyone be against this? If this protects society overall we should all be for it.
If you’re incapable of operating a 7,000 lb. vehicle safely while I’m on the road with my family, I don’t want you driving.
What is worrisome about all of these things, that give more and more control to the government, is not the intended purposes; it’s when they start using that power to punish people who have the wrong political views - and they will.
Posted on 4/30/26 at 10:00 am to Glorious
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I’ve posted on the O-T half-drunk going 80mph blaring Toby Keith while on the road with your family. How’s that for capable?
Irresponsible but impressive.
Posted on 4/30/26 at 12:41 pm to VanRIch
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Listen motherfricker, I’ve been driving for 31 years, I don’t need you to help me fricking brake.
I had one incident using adaptive cruise about a decade ago. I was in the middle of nowhere doing 75 on a four lane road. I passed an unpainted tanker truck, and apparently my vehicle saw it's own reflection or something, and slammed on the brakes in the middle of the highway.
All driver assist features except blind spot warning have been disabled immediately ever since.
Posted on 4/30/26 at 12:44 pm to Gifman
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You’d rather be safe than free
What If a killer is after you and you panic and speed? Will the car stop and then he murders you?
Posted on 4/30/26 at 3:19 pm to TD422
quote:Stupid hypo that’s not grounded in reality.
Sorry, Mr Ford Owner...we cannot let you operate your vehicle right now as we detect some changes in your stress level. Please deal with the (homicidal killer / encroaching flood / tornado / accident involving your family) the best way you can. Maybe call a ride share. We apologize for the inconvenience."
When’s the last time you had to speed away from a murderer/tornado/Armageddon flood?
Posted on 4/30/26 at 3:24 pm to Beauw
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We recently bought a Lexus that has this, it is the worst. BUT, it doesn't have the ridiculous auto shutoff thing.
But the monitoring system watches your face and sounds an alert if you look to the side for longer than a second or two, I hate it.
honest question here out of sheer curiosity. These systems that are already in vehicles that have a camera on your face and eyes or whatever...what would it do if you were drinking a beer? Like if it thinks your falling asleep at the wheel it sounds like it alerts you to pull over, but what if it captures you doing something clearly illegal? Does it report you to law enforcement? Or is it not trained for that?
Posted on 4/30/26 at 3:54 pm to RFK
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Stupid hypo that’s not grounded in reality.
When’s the last time you had to speed away from a murderer/tornado/Armageddon flood?
Pick me.
When the EF-4 tornado in Dallas hit the intersection of the George Bush Turnpike and I 30 in 2015, I was making a run for it in a Honda Odyssey on 66 across the lake at about 100 MPH with the wife and two young kids aboard. We could see the thing coming through the lightning flashes and exploding transformers a few miles to the South even as the radio station insisted that no tornado was on the ground. We had been heading straight for that intersection before I noticed the first transformer explosion in the distance and took an exit to get away, only to realize that it was still coming in our general direction.
I actually like most of the modern safety nannies, but things have gone a bit too far with this last round. And please stop saying it's all Ford. Nippon Denso, who supplies most OEMs around the world with electronics for one model or another, showed off driver health and condition monitoring at CES as early as 2014 and openly advertised selling the data to insurance and government healthcare systems,
This post was edited on 4/30/26 at 3:56 pm
Posted on 4/30/26 at 3:56 pm to RobertFootball
The law was pushed by M.A.D.D. and of course Insurance companies (who fund our politicians).
Biden signed it into law.
This week some republicans tried to include abolishing the law in a new bill. It failed when 57 R’s voted with the D’s.
They claim it’s about public safety and reducing impaired drivers.
There are roughly 300 million cars on US roads.
There are roughly 40,000 fatalities per year, of which 13,000 or so are from impaired drivers.
Let’s don’t address the problem by raising and enforcing laws targeting impaired drivers (permanently suspending licenses after 2nd DUI as an example) …. Instead let’s mandate that all new cars be equipped with interior smart cameras that will police everyone.
Our government needs to focus on burdening the perpetrators rather than grouping all of society into the same bucket.
We are too soft on crime and this is an example of politicians talking about how much they care when someone dies …. but in reality we don’t want to call out those who commit the crime … they would rather treat everyone the same … and get their campaign funded by those benefiting from our actions.
Biden signed it into law.
This week some republicans tried to include abolishing the law in a new bill. It failed when 57 R’s voted with the D’s.
They claim it’s about public safety and reducing impaired drivers.
There are roughly 300 million cars on US roads.
There are roughly 40,000 fatalities per year, of which 13,000 or so are from impaired drivers.
Let’s don’t address the problem by raising and enforcing laws targeting impaired drivers (permanently suspending licenses after 2nd DUI as an example) …. Instead let’s mandate that all new cars be equipped with interior smart cameras that will police everyone.
Our government needs to focus on burdening the perpetrators rather than grouping all of society into the same bucket.
We are too soft on crime and this is an example of politicians talking about how much they care when someone dies …. but in reality we don’t want to call out those who commit the crime … they would rather treat everyone the same … and get their campaign funded by those benefiting from our actions.
Posted on 4/30/26 at 4:19 pm to WG_Dawg
I don't know honestly, there is this infrared strip thing right above the steering column and I think that's what monitors your face, like when I drive it with just my right hand, my arm blocks that thing and it says "driver monitoring system unavailable". So I don't know if it can identify whether or not you are holding a drink, I guess it could if it is a heat map but I doubt it could determine what type of drink. So I am not too sure.
Posted on 4/30/26 at 4:22 pm to auie93
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After a drive down the beach and that thing dinging every time I turned my head to make sure each lady in a thong was a safe distance from the vehicle for me to proceed, I went into settings and turned that crap off.
Man, I have to go do that, I love the car but it takes an act of congress to change any of the damn settings, there are so many sub-menus and all that.
Im sure you know this, but the profile doesn't retain the HUD position for how I set it, it makes me irrationally angry.
Posted on 4/30/26 at 4:31 pm to RFK
quote:up vote 0 down vote 90
Why would anyone be against this?
And well earned.
Posted on 4/30/26 at 4:55 pm to LSUfan4444
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Well, because no such law exists for starters.
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