• 7bicycles [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      Being on the ass end of the car interactions in the world I’d rather the bazinga mobiles don’t start without all the external gizmos, sensors and cameras because they are absolutely designed with them in mind as necessities and not as options, having sacrificied all sightlines for passenger safety

      Car safety has absolutely ruined cars, the regulations need to be relaxed a lot

      • Assian_Candor [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        Sure, but that’s cold comfort when you’re trying to get to work

        Strong old man yelling at cloud energy but back in my day we were taught to check our blind spots and back up without cameras

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          Sure, but that’s cold comfort when you’re trying to get to work

          Yeah so is everybody else not in a car that gets endangered by those ass-sightlines bazingamobiles.

    • Tankiedesantski [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      6 months ago

      Cameras and sensors imo go in the category of genuinely useful safety features. Probably quite a lot of people are alive today because of reversing cameras.

      • LanyrdSkynrd [comrade/them, any]@hexbear.net
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        Backup cameras are worth every cent they cost just to prevent running over kids who aren’t tall enough to be seen in the rear view mirror.

        Tesla gave a lot of useful safety tech a bad name by deploying a half baked system in a overconfident way, the stuff other manufacturers are putting out is legitimately useful safety tech. It’s expensive for now, but it will get cheaper and save a lot of lives.

        Forward collision detection systems slow down cars enough to prevent fatalities, lane warning systems prevent accidents from drivers who fall asleep by shaking the steering wheel and beeping. Adaptive cruise control can prevent pileups because it can quickly react to dense traffic slowing.