The only thing Obama did for me, is raise my prices.
Wait, I'll give him the no existing pre-conditions, that was a good one....but other than that, all I got was high prices.
This has been educational to say the least. I'd not heard of places actually checking to see what comes out of your tail pipe too?!?!
That doesn't seem to allow for users to customize their cars for performance, etc...?
It looks like it's equivalent to the emissions tests that most American drivers have to do once every year or two
Emissions test?
Never had one of those...I would guess that's a California thing mostly?
But I've been in some states with a brake tag inspection...which is nothing, you roll in , turn on lights and wipers and you're good.
So, do they not let you mod your cars over in Europe? Flash new ECUs or aggressive cams, high flow exhausts, etc?
Are you sure you actually own your car over there if you can't play with it?
About a year or so ago, had cancer surgery, over $100K bill...cost me about $3K and done...after that, every other visit and procedure, I paid for office visits $25 and that was it...everything else major covered.
You can do that in the USA too, but it costs extra.
Yep I was going to say mostly the same thing.....the car on the LOT, is one I can haggle over and get the best price.
I can't haggle on a made to order car.
And these days, for the most part...there aren't THAT many things you can order custom...I find few options on many cars, like Mazdas, etc....but in general I find a car on a lot that is the color and has most all options offered that I want I go to haggle and hopefully drive off with it that or the next day....
I suspect that in the near future, all cars will have some sort of heartbeat connection back to
the manufacturer. If the vehicle hasn't " checked in " within the last X number of days, the car
will simply refuse to allow it to be driven.
Ala, Sony. ( https://tbreak.com/playstation... )
This will make it even more difficult to disconnect the vehicle communications by modifying the
cellular hardware. Someone should probably start working on a software firewall that we can
install to allow / deny traffic as we see fit.
On a positive note, the bullsh*t that is being force-fed to consumers in new vehicles is going to
make my own vehicle ( which has zero connectivity capability at all ) skyrocket in resale value.
Some additional considerations:
1) The developers of this system are the poster children of incompetence
or
2) This is expected behavior of the system in question
If it were the former, the Governments of the World would already be shutting these systems down
until they can be assured the people who are working on them can prevent such behavior in said system.
If it's the latter, I would suspect this is simply a real world enviroment test of its capabilities and has a very
classified project name associated with it.
Since we're not hearing anything about development of said systems being restricted in any way, my money
is on the latter.
"At least as safe as a (prudent) human" seems like a reasonable standard to shoot for as a floor, presuming the vendor is willing to accept liability when their "as good as a human" system is at fault in an accident.
Why a republican? There's literally no difference between parties at this point.
There's a BIG difference between what it appears is taking over the Democrat party, the DSA (Democratic Socialists of America)...aka US Communists....and the Republicans, and even the traditional Democrats.
It isn't so much they are "progressive"...looking at their platform they are mostly communists AND are actively wanting to burn down the US and how it is run and put together by our forefathers and the Constitution, etc.
I don't know if this Kansas candidate is one of them.....but right now, there is definitely a BIG difference in how much of the Dem party is rolling....
Oh sidenote: If I disconnect the TSCM module from my car it will fail the next roadworthy test. In most of Europe a functioning SOS system is mandatory and checked during roadworthy test as part of the e-Call directive
What exactly is a "roadworthy test"?
Not familiar with those...a European thing?
The radio always switching on at startup is a real bugbear of mine in my mazda too. I just don't understand why they do it , it would be so easy for the system to remember the state at shutdown and leave it there , but no, switch on each feckin time. FFS
My Mazda remembers the state it was last in upon restart of the car......
Not sure why yours doesn't...?
You won't buy a car that shows you ads, but you would ride a bus that shows you ads.
Err...I have a CAR...why the fuck would I ride a bus with a bunch of smelly bums?
Not in europe, they come free with the car plus they trigger in a serious accident where you might be unconcious when phoning the emergency yourself isn't an option.
My phone and watch have this built into them already....yours don't over there?
If you're in an upsidedown car and unconscious, it's nice to wake up in a hospital because your car automatically called 112 for you.
Don't you folks have smart phones and smart watches there?
I mean,, my iPhone and Apple Watch Ultra both have fall/crash detections and will call if activated and I don't respond that I'm ok.
I had this happen last year just walking and I tripped and fell and hit the ground somewhat solidly....nowhere near the force of an accident tho...
But my watch went off on fall mode detection and countdown started prompting me to acknowledge if I was ok, otherwise it was calling 911 and also notifying my emergency contacts.....
I had left my phone at home just walking the dog...but the watch sure caught it.
I thought pretty much all smart phones and smart watches had this capability by now?
In case of injury notify your superior immediately. He'll kiss it and make it better.
