Where there is a will, there is a way. This lends credence to what I saw written recently; that hot rod shops and speed parts peddlers with thrive even in an autonomy-wracked automotive future.
I hope so. I am not looking forward to the day when we all drive the same electric powered plastic blob.
There were 4 cops and 2 cars. One vic and one charger. I'm assuming he was in the Charger. When I explained to him where the trunk release is, the other cops on scene laughed at him for not knowing his way around a vic.
I think the really important question is why were there cops searching your car? Especially four cops in two cars? What are you doing?
Some paranoid, bored, nosy person called the cops on me and a friend for sitting in our cars in a relatively empty part of a nice neighborhood at night. To be fair, we had been raising hell in a field very nearby but I never heard anything about that from any of the cops. Just something about us sitting there and someone with a flashlight. It's procedure for this particular agency to send two cars to stuff like this, and they run a lot of 2 man units. Another backup unit showed up after 10 or so minutes, so it was 3 cars and 5 cops. I attribute it to being a slow night. They were convinced they had interrupted a drug deal. They ran a dog around both of our cars and I was told that the dog was "acting funny" around mine. If the dog had actually alerted, I don't think he would have approached me about it like that. I think he was just trying to scare me into letting him search the car. I was in no mood for this bs and they didn't actually have us for breaking any laws, so I gave them permission to search it, and my friend did the same for his car. When they found nothing they sent us on our way.
If you have nothing to hide, let em just get on with it I guess. I've been searched a few times and always been sent on my way. Though getting my trunk open may defeat them. There's no release switch on back of car, remote is bust so can't hit release on that, key slot on the back isn't working. Hmmmmmmm. Sent a mate out to get something from my boot the other day, waited 5 minutes, he was out there googling how to open a jammed boot. There's a switch on the dash...
Yeah true, another thing I'm not looking forward to. Not going to lie, it took me way longer than it should have to open the trunk on my mom's car when she first got it. I had only opened truck tailgates previous to that though and the trunk had some sort of electric latch mechanism rather than just a lever, but I still felt dumb after she showed me how.
Hardly anybody is looking forward to it, even people who aren't into cars and care about almost nothing other than comfort don't want them, the only way they will do well is when they are legally forced on us... Honestly the only hope for the automotive industry at this point is if all self driving cars turn out being death traps that have AI almost as bad as the AI in beam, and it has to be ALL because if they end up reducing the amount of accidents or show promise of doing so then it can be seen as a safety feature, and thats all the more reason to force it on everyone, same with ABS, TC, and ESC. features which few people really trust are forced on everyone who would want a relatively new car. I wouldn't even be surprized if in the near future you wont even be able to drive a car from before selfdriving on the streets...
I don't understand, you hope that accidents/road deaths don't decrease so that certain cars are not popular? Can't you see how ridiculous and selfish that is? If and when these autonomous cars come to market I fail to see how them being safer is a negative. Further more, ABS, TC, ESC? Seriously? These highly useful safety features are only in cars because they are useful. They reduce accidents. I do not understand your mentality at all.
According to this video and its comments there actually are a lot of people who would like self driving cars. My take on it is if you want an ultra efficient transportation system improve public transportation, and if you have to walk a ways to get where you need to go, too bad. Not only would it solve the issue of traffic it might help with obesity too. I've never driven something with ESC, TC is annoying sometimes but can usually be turned off, and ABS has saved me from multiple ditches in the winter. So I don't really agree with you there.
...The future of the automotive industry is depressing man :\ Edit: So is the future of the gaming industry... and most things :\ ABS, TC, ESC are only in ALL cars because its mandated by law, cars have worked just fine for years before ABS TC and ESC, but now because they are required companies will be designing the suspension geometry and handling with ESC in mind rather than making a car that handles well enough without any assists. And yes, I do see how selfish that is, but its less selfish than forcing everyone to drive them which is what the alternative would be, I want them to be so unsafe that society will be paranoid about them for years to come which would be the best outcome for everyone.
I somewhat agree with luke's opinion regarding electronic assists. I should be able to choose if I want a stupid computer helping me or not, but a lot of cars apparently don't give you the ability to fully turn off the system, and some will tell you you have when it's still there in the background. Then you find out that you can't really turn it all the way off (example I heard was Challenger Hellcat, and presumably lower level Challengers as well), or that you have to dance the Tango while standing on your head and rubbing your stomach with one hand to really turn it all the way off (example I heard was Subaru BRZ). Give me cable throttle, no TC, no ESC any day.
I consider myself to be a practiced driver. ABS saved me at least twice from a fender bender, and esc brought my Mazda out of what should have been a spin. I hit grease or oil and I'm sideways. Next thing I know everything is normal. A safety net is never a bad thing no matter how good you think you are. If you think electronic aids ruin you as a driver, your incredibly pompous. EDIT: there could be no worse move than selling hell cats with optional aids. Think about the average hellcat driver. You want that toolbag running around with that power to be able to turn TC off? Wrecked hellcats everywhere reads the headline. Lawsuit. It launches in second for a reason.
