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Furthering that they are indeed not the "Pro-Life" party but instead the "Pro-Birth" party.
Agree but starting to even wonder about that. I've never seen them do anything that benefits births let alone even celebrate it. Seems to be "Pro-Misery especially at others expense".
That's where the "the cruelty is the point" expression comes from
Remember, their cars are the gaint Yukons with a convoy of body guards aren't safe enough. But your car. It could literally be a gascan strapped to tricycle for all they care.
It could literally be a gascan strapped to tricycle for all they care.
Time to mandate every car's steering column has a 1.5ft razor sharp spike sticking out of it.
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Replace seat belts with piano wire and make air bags with 50x the explosive charge but replace the airbag with ball bearings.
Ah yes the Tullock Spike
Exactly! Except I make Lemmy shitposts for shits and giggles and am not an "economics professor" who needs to be taken seriously and never gets invited to parties.
Why do you want millions of people to die? That's pretty weird.
Millions dead? Are you crazy? 3 months of my 2 point auto safety plan and everyone will drive very very carefully all the time! I'm SAVING LIVES!
Reads as rather blantant satire to me. Perhaps you're the weird one weirdy.
If we were on fuck cars that wouldn't be satire. Didnt realize we're on not the onion instead.
Natural selection has been removed. Now republicans are trying to reintroduce it.
They'll (mainly) be the ones affected. I say let it happen.
Then again, I don't like most people.
Jesus fuck! What the fuck is it with these fuckers!?!? really? Cars are too safe!??! WTF?
I am guessing they want to deregulate the safety laws so that they can take the money that they spend on it and stick it into their pockets and still keep the price of cars the same!
Cars in some ways are too coddling, giving people a false sense of safety. All these new features like lane keeping and blind spot warnings make people drive with reckless abandon.
They were driving with reckless abandon before...
Maybe the one thing I could see is people letting go of the steering to do something thanks to lane assist, but those same people were thigh-driving before, and I might trust the system more...
I drove much more conservatively since getting a car with these features.
I.e...im more likely to just go a steady speed behind someone with ACC on, whereas before I'd be passing frequently.
And in general, it makes driving in heavy traffic far less draining. Oh it'll worry about pulling up and stopping constantly for me? Yes please.
I'll agree with this, that my mild annoyance at being 2mph slower than I want to be is greatly reduced by adaptive cruise control. Which means my following distance is nicer and I'm less likely to bother to change lanes.
Biggest thing is that it doesn't begin slowing down for traffic ahead like I would like it to, and I don't trust it enough to see if it even would, but maybe that much engagement is good to make sure I don't get too complacent.
Also, mitigating the mind numbing monotony of hours on a freeway. The wheel naturally staying in the center (lane centering, not lane keeping) does a lot for keeping me feeling more well rested on a longer trip.
It's easy to say that it's the same thing with aviation: every time something bad happens, we have to improve the technology and introduce safety features to planes.
Yet it's surprisingly easy to forget that that's only a small part of the entire safety process. They also improve pilot training. They set new requirements for infrastructure. New rules for air traffic control.
When I look at a lot of traffic accidents, I usually don't say "wow, a new car safety feature would have saved the day" but "why were these people given a licence again?" or "what were they thinking when they designed this bit of road?"
I don't think these politicians are thinking about this, but some of these safety features really are masking the lack of driving skill in the US.
I've seen people over rely on bad lane assist and just kinda ping pong from side to side in their lane. It's... kinda stupid.
Also, what's the deal with the side mirror light that turns on when someone is near? My car has a small convex mirror attached to the standard one and I can see my blind spot quite clearly.
You can see your blind spot if
- Your side mirror is adjusted properly
- You look
Blind spot monitoring helps alert you in case you didn’t
My car has a camera on the sides that shows the lane where the speedometer/tachometer are when I turn on a signal. In addition to the mirrors, lights, audible alerts, etc. All very helpful.
I once got into a wreck, in the leftmost/passing lane on the interstate, because the asshat in front of me slammed on his brakes at the exact moment that I was checking my blind spot to move over. I'dve much appreciated being able to keep my eyes forward.
As a cyclist, I kind of agree. Apparently the introduction of seat belts caused an increase in cyclist deaths because people started driving less carefully.
Hello ghost of John Forrester!
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I've been seeing a lot of weird culture war coverage around this, even more than usual these days. Big fan of cheap, simple, accessible technology and tools. Cars are tools. Less components and less complexity means they are cheaper to produce and maintain. Bring back the econobox, the car I'm hype for is the electric equivalent of a 94 Corolla
Also, cars that are excessively safe for their occupants tend to make them deadlier to other road users.
I've always thought an electric 94 Ranger would be pretty dope.
Heck yeah, plenty of room for batteries down low under the bed and it'd help out with the mini truck achilles's heel of poor traction unloaded. I've thought about a conversion like that a lot too, rwd only would be easy
Yes Ted Cruz I totally believe that if they got rid of these Safety Systems cars would magically get cheaper. No one should doubt that for a second Ted Cruz. There's no way they'll just get rid of the safety system and then pocket the extra the proceeds. Ted Cruz would never be for that I'm sure.
I agree with them whole heartedly. When they remove seat belts, they need to be the first to become a pavement puddle.
I'd really recommend the 99% Invisible episode "The nut behind the wheel". Its about the evolution of car safety features and how automakers were reluctant to implement safety features, because it implied that driving was an unsafe activity.
To be fair, Automatic Emergency Braking sounds like it has enormous potential for things to go wrong but I say that out of concern for safety, not expense.
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