Back in his day, if you wanted to text and drive, you pulled over and chiseled into a stone tablet like a real man.
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Back in his day, if you wanted to text and drive, you pulled over and chiseled into a stone tablet like a real man.
Here's how I put it simply. No one sits in their kitchen and watches the dishwasher wash dishes. Once a task is automated, it is human nature to not pay attention to the task. The more the act of driving is automated the less humans will pay attention to the act of driving, let alone practice in the art of driving. The OP is exactly right.The unintended consequence of automation is that when (not if) technology fails, people won’t be ready to operate manually.
Dag gummit, but thats where the hackters are, up there in the cloud!
again it is not a requirement for the clutch to be disengaged or the trans to shift to a lower gear.It also cuts the throttle and the automatic transmission downshifts to a lower gear to match engine speed being retarded by apply the brakes and closing the throttle. A manual transmission needs to me manually shifted, which the driver, if he's not paying attention enough to prevent the automatic braking system to activate, is most likely not going to either downshift the transmission into a lower gear to speed match the engine, or drop into neutral, or disengage the clutch.
These are false equivalencies. Your ladder won't kill me or my family, your fatty foods won't kill me or my family, your sugary drinks won't kill me or my family. Those are a person's choices that they make, that affect them. I won't be killed by you eating a cheeseburger.Nick, at what point will we be idiot proof? I too have lost people to automobile accidents. It sucks! But do we outlaw ladders? Guns, definitely get rid of guns. All those sugary sodas...gone, too much diabetes! Fatty foods, gone, too many heart attacks!--(already doing that) Where does it end? One of the main reasons cars are so expensive now is due to all the "tech" being built in! I don't have any hard answers either. l just believe in our mad rush to make EVERYTHING safe, and create this elusive utopia, we are going to slowly but surely lose what makes this country great...our Freedoms! The man knows everything we say, even in the privacy of our own homes now! Every text, call, email, all of it is scanned now in the name of safety. Sorry man, not attacking, just ranting!
Do you really want to put that to the test? I have been in a car when it was slammed into by a distracted driver driving guess what, a manual transmission. It did not feel good and closed half a bridge but fortunately I got away without injuries. These safety systems help prevent accidents just like that.Must be Gen Z. All that crap just makes you a worse, lazy driver and in my opinion less safe. You're supposed to pay attention and actually DRIVE! You should drive your vehicle not the other way around. Geeze what a world...
No manual option in the new Shelby GT500 either, which I think is crazy.I obviously don’t know much about Corvettes due to the fact that I made a comment about factory delivery and was promptly schooled, but I do know that you can’t get a manual Corvette now.........and the taillights suck..........but other than that, it’s pretty nice.
I think its also important to note that while there were probably considerable development costs the majority of this tech isn't very expensive to the manufacturers. They just use them as excuses to milk more profit from customers. These things are in so many cars they're basically commodity items at this point.These are false equivalencies. Your ladder won't kill me or my family, your fatty foods won't kill me or my family, your sugary drinks won't kill me or my family. Those are a person's choices that they make, that affect them. I won't be killed by you eating a cheeseburger.
A driver's inattention at the wheel could affect them and everyone else around them.
I'm not speaking about you specifically of course.... Just in general. But if someone's vehicle stops them from slamming into me at an intersection I don't give a damn how many cheeseburgers they ate. I'll be glad that the technology was there.
I'll still gripe about it as well, just like you, but I get that these technologies do save lives. More so than a manual transmission.
The manual argument is a laugh. I'll bet the majority of us MT drivers have been eating a cheeseburger with one hand, shifting with the other, and steering with our knees. At least with an auto you have a free hand.
I don't believe that a manual is safer. You could likely convince me that, especially nowadays, a driver of a manual may be a better driver than your average driver but I imagine that may even be arguable.
https://fordauthority.com/2021/05/m...rced-into-retirement-as-safety-tech-advances/
I know this stated in here Ford has added "safety" features to the Bronco that will become mandatory on all vehicles in the future. Emergency braking, etc.. how autonomous is this world becoming? This is a scary article. To think that not only low take rates for manuals, but now safety requirements would get rid of it? That is ridiculous. There is less texting and driving with a manual, and less distracted driving in general with a manual. What are your thoughts?
This is another reason I'm getting the 7mt. Not ready to let go of the stick.