At least it is not rusting away in field with an owner who wants $100,000 for it.

You have to rescue it!

Mandatory rear view cameras, solving a problem solved by people just backing out slowly, turning their heads, and paying attention.

Again a band-aid solution to the hemorrhaging problem that is under-trained drivers. Makes driving tests harder and required every few years.

So you want to create some massive bureaucratic mess where drivers get tested yearly for competency in evasive driving situations? That'll be cheap, will absolutely meet its intended goals, surely won't eviscerate productivity, and the government will run it really well.

BOOOOOOO!

I read an article (I think on Car and Driver) where the auto-braking system on one of their cars malfunctioned and the car applied full brakes while driving on an empty highway (it was part of an adaptive cruise control system).

Great now the NHTSA is going to go HAM on anything that can make them look like they are saving lives, fuck this bullshit. I pay attention to the damn road and do not need something to help me stop as attested by the fact that in 12 years of driving I have never rear ended anything or anyone.

Because American politics, in its race towards the bottom wants to reward stupidity and increase business revenue instead of rewarding personal responsibility and creating an efficient marketplace for competition.

MY FELLOW 'MURICAN, YOU TOO HAVE THE RIGHT TO BAER BRAKES

It's easier to bully car companies, which are full of designers and engineers, than the average 90 IQ license holder.

Because that doesn't make the car companies a shit-ton of money?

I already hate all the beeping and "coaching" my mom's Escape does, so:

Wouldn't it be easier to impose regulations and increase standards on driving tests across the country? Why not solve the problem (train and educate drivers) instead of trying to put a band-aid on it? Just a thought.

Oddly enough I feel much the same as I did when he said he wasn't going to play Mr. Bean anymore... Like the end of an era.

please tell me where this magical place that no one buys Corolla's.

The 2015 WRX? I thought they were selling like hot cakes!

"Later, dudes!"