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While all of this is cool to speculate on, it’s good to remember that just because GM has applied for a patent, it doesn’t mean that anything will come of it.

Small diesel engine (non-road) is one kind of diesel engines (also known as compression-ignition engine) with low power. A diesel engine is an internal combustion engine which uses the heat of compression to initiate ignition and burn the fuel that has been injected into the combustion chamber.    

One poster states correctly that ‘some things are out of our control’, while the other believes that defensive driving would prevent all collisions.

Again: The technology isn’t ready yet. For those who think it’s better than nothing, talk to the parents of young children who were killed in parking lot fender-benders while in vehicles with first-generation airbags. It was one thing to test new technology when I was racing cars. I will not be a beta test dummy as a consumer.

I remember seeing some old window price stickers from the early 60s showing seatbelts to be a $10 option. Safety equipment is important, the biggest problem I see is getting used to some of it. It took me a long time not to “pump the brakes” in a slippery situation, but now I can’t imagine having a car without ABS

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It would be one thing if one could simply turn off all of this driver-assistance crap. I’d still resent paying for it but I could deal with being able to turn it off and having the default remain off even through key cycles. But most automakers don’t give you that option – at least not with everything. Most allow you to turn off lane departure warning/lane change assist. Most do NOT let you turn off automatic braking. Most also have the system turn back off after you turn the engine iff and then re-start the car. Subaru doesn’t let you turn anything off, which us why I’ll never buy another one.

I’d rather have a truck that needs a little software update to fix a steering boost, than a truck that will make me replace the motor after 100 k. Ford, you hearing us?

Oh, and the backup camera in my Mustang already needs replaced after 2 and a half years. Luckily the car is still under warranty, but I don’t want to image what all these systems would cost to repair out of warranty.

In the early 00’s I had a 1989 Cherokee with the Bendix 9 ABS system. That thing was a pile of garbage. Bendix decided to forego the typical vacuum brake booster and instead had the ABS module apply the brake assist. Imagine how an ABS system would age if it had to operate every time you applied the brakes instead of just every time a real ABS event was required. That’s exactly how this thing aged. Every 8-or-so key cycles I’d start it up and the ABS indicator would light, and I wouldn’t have brake assist. Lovely. I’d have to shut it down and start it again hoping the ABS would act properly that time.

Nothing should EVER take steering control away from the driver. Absolute criminal arrogance from idiot-savants.

yeah, but what do you propose to do to those awful people who have perfectly functional older cars that don’t meet your nanny-mandate that is keeping your family from certain doom?