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Did you even read the article? —- GM hired Orbital ATK, a Virginia rocket science firm that determined the cause of Takata’s airbag explosions, to test its truck inflators. As of December, Orbital ATK had checked 648 GM inflators by simulating heat and humidity cycles, finding that they would perform as designed for 30 years, according to GM. The automaker said that in 4,907 more inflators tested in labs and in 63,000 airbag deployments on real roads, none of the truck and SUV inflators malfunctioned.

The worst is Subaru, which is beginning to install cameras inside the car to spy on the driver. They use facial recognition technology to decide whether you’re looking at the road the way they wants you so. If not, the car will slow down and eventually stop. Do you expect me to actually PAY for this intrusion? If you want it, perhaps you should be taking mass transit.

As I sat contemplating what I was going to write about, a longtime customer walked through the door and asked me if I could take a look at his clutch pedal.

This nine-litre cubic capacity four-cylinder engine generates 300kW and has been designed for heavy-duty construction equipment and agricultural machinery.

Tom is an automotive enthusiast from the New York City area and has worked in the car media industry doing both video and writing work. He spent most of his early career working with an automotive based YouTube channel and has since expanded his horizons into other digital industries.

The cost thing is spot on as well, and compounds my annoyance. These “features” that I don’t want or need in the first place are also prone to failure and cost a lot of money to fix.

The experience made me reflect on my early days in the business, when it was common for a customer to return after a few days for a final adjustment.

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As you can tell, a number of big, high-dollar items have been replaced on this Jeep over the years. From steering boxes to power steering pumps to exhaust manifolds, this XJ has been an expensive vehicle to maintain. But hopefully, this means these big-ticket items will last for many years to come.

In old-school driving, PJ, pumping didn’t mean, “stab the brake as rapidly as possible,” it meant to “threshold brake until you feel the traction let go, release the brakes and do it again–as often as necessary to come to a safe stop.” Granted, some people could never learn that lesson but some could and did. You also learned more about steering and throttle to try and maintain control, even in a slide, since most cars were RWD at the time.

For the electric power market, Cummins has further developed its battery range. The firm’s latest lithium-ion battery portfolio includes battery packs and battery modules that can be integrated expertly with Cummins’ new electric and hybrid powertrain portfolio, providing customers with a broad range of flexible, scalable power solutions for small and large commercial applications. Andrew Penca, general manager, Battery Systems at Cummins. “Cummins is committed to investing $500 million in electrification over three years. These investments include innovation of fully electric and hybrid power solutions that will serve our markets as they adopt electrification.” The BP74E (74kWh battery pack), BP35E (35kWh battery pack), BM44E (44kWh battery module) and BM20E (20kWh battery module) are Cummins-designed and built units featuring Li-ion technology. The firm says the units offer a high energy density and proprietary control technology, allowing a high battery performance for a longer zero emission range. They benefit from a modular design and can be scaled and aligned with the capability and duty cycle of the application. The range includes low voltage packs (BM44E and BM20E) that power material handling applications to high voltage energy dense battery systems (BP35E and BP74E) that have the energy needed for long range buses and trucks.

I find these gizmos annoying for a somewhat contrary reason. I’m a very safe driver who gets frustrated with people who can’t seem to signal when turning/changing lanes, or dart from lane to lane without a blindspot check. It’s annoying to me that I would have to have all these systems on my new vehicle because of the unsafe driving characteristics of other motorists.