Well these cameras don’t have to be mounted on out board wings like this and once they aren’t you don’t have to worry about broken mirrors which I’ve seen plenty of.

That’s a difference between gas and electric. In gas cars they know the car will only last so long due to the engine and transmission failing. In electric cars that failure rate is so low that there is no reason that the average age of cars on the road wouldn’t increase by a few more years and repair of minor issues…

Here’s that cars history.

As an aircraft engineer I’d have to disagree.
Your system is still a redundancy system but now has codependent redundancy systems working together which are very unlikely to function better than an entirely internal redundancy system. Simple markers on the road with a second set of cameras would work as well or better…

This seems like it would be true but it isn’t.
Modern power windows are cheaper to manufacture than manual windows and are more durable for several reasons but mainly due to knowing the forces being put on them, E.G. you never over crank a power window. power auto-locks and windows are a mandated safety feature in…

#COTD

It also means secret service and onsite security had full control of the vehicles and could provide a barrier of safe vehicles.

As someone who grew up with an astro it is way harder to get out of the astro than any other minivan made today or then for that matter. Also the ride is trash.

Tesla has a worse track record on doors, windows and locks...

Yep, both old and new in both autos and manuals. Full size trucks to Suzuki Samurais.

That would make sense in a 20 year old 3 speed auto. First gear in the Broncos auto 10 speed is 4.7:1.

My 4runner auto crawls uphill without gas and if it had the low that the 10 speed has here it would crawl even better.

Sure... But an auto gets you even lower gearing than the manual due to the torque converter and the power to the ground can be more accurately controlled using the brakes which don’t have lash while the driveline can then be kept in tension and you don’t have to deal with driveline tolerances and lash. I’m unclear on…

Why is no one pointing out that because of how torque converters work the auto will have much more torque in it’s lowest gear than the manual? The functional gearing will be lower even though the physical gears are not.

Plus when you take the torque converter stall ratio into effect you soon realize the automatic has far lower gearing than the manual. Just saying.

I’m hoping they choose a black and preferably female chef or celebrity to partner with.

Am I the only one confused as to why they aren’t following the AV trend of fitting it behind a TV on the wall? WTH isn’t this just a slim wall mount design? Where do they think people put their TVs?

Dash cams aren’t public cams and big brother surveillance is already here and already uses license plates. Seems like a non-sequitur.

It’s a fair point. Although if the car was marked with UV paint that cams could see you can mark it on all sides and it makes it much more likely to get ID’d by camera. Dash cams would get even more popular and between that and all the other cameras everywhere I’d bet we catch more and not less. I don’t know the data…

yes but should license plates still exist? Seems like a built in painted or molded in code for each car would be a much smarter and less wasteful system. Weird that cars have to aerodynamic to be compliant but then we attach a mess of 1890 tech to the front and rear. License plates are so shitty that camera readers…