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Furthermore, having personally sampled some of the current implementations of active safety systems, I find them to be incredibly poorly implemented and are a distraction themselves. That you would like to foist this distraction AND make ME pay for it for the sake of your family’s perceived increase in safety is what set me off.

They don’t like it because it reminds them that they are the menace and it’s only luck and other people’s caution that’s prevented them from causing more accidents.

I have been paying property taxes for years to a voracious and financially irresponsible school system yet I have no kids. Life sucks and it’s unfair. What’s your point ? Just using your apple/orange logic.

The Deep Blue Hybrid system offers largely emission-free sailing, with the BMW-I lithium batteries able to be charged via renewable energy sources, such as solar panels and hydro generators. For longer trips, or if the hotel load requires more power than can be supplied by the batteries, the Advanced Hybrid Control System automatically manages and starts up the DC generator.

The four-cylinder is the smallest engine offered in a full-size truck but it’s not the most efficient. The turbocharged, 2.7-liter V6 available in the Ford F-150 posts 20, 26, and 22 mpg, respectively, while offering more power. The 3.3-liter V6 also offered returns 19, 25, and 22 mpg while making less power and torque. Shop Ram and the 1500’s 3.6-liter V6 delivers 20 mpg in the city, 25 mpg on the highway, and 22 mpg combined thanks in part to a mild hybrid system.

Much like those who live in the ‘snow belt’ and refuse to use winter tires, I cannot comprehend putting a ‘price’ on human lives. If required, then I will (have) go without take out food, beer, movies, vacations, etc in order to afford them. It reminds me too much of Ford and GM accountants costing the price of accidents versus improving the design of their Corvairs, Pintos and Explorers.

14. Upright and comfortable, the Scrambler can be ridden all day. With a seat height just above 34 inches, the Scrambler 1200 XE isn’t the shortest bike on the road. However, the narrow chassis allowed my 32-inseam to plant the balls of my feet on the ground nicely. Standing or sitting, the reach to the grips is spot-on for me. Should you wish to adjust it, you’ll have the ability to do so as well. The bench seat is comfortable, and the foot controls didn’t cause excessive knee-bend.

However, diesel and petrol powered vehicles may still be able to compete if they can continue to reduce their emissions during use. Manufacturers also point to the amount of carbon currently emitted during the manufacture of electric batteries for EVs, in large part because of the electricity consumed in production; and most of that electricity is still produced by thermal power plants.

Most cars have Bluetooth, yet how many people do you see still holding their phone like a pizza, yakking into it like a Muppet as they drive? I won’t disagree about anything passive, seatbelts are passive at this point and if you don’t wear one for whatever reason, that’s on you. I won’t disagree about blind spot monitoring, but how can you have that and not rear view cameras or the associated cross-path detection that many have with the system?

OMO mandating these drivers assist devices would lower their price by economies of scale. I have not problem with allowing them to be switched off.

I would argue there is likely a causal correlation between an interest in a car blog and and interest and understanding of driving.

The truck is also said to have issues with updated software. With this kind of risk that came with the truck, if you can’t go for other trucks within the same class then you would rather check if the systems have been updated.