“and it’s almost impossible to see the person until she’s about 15' away,”

The pedestrian was hit with the front right corner. Swerving three feet to the right would have been sufficient.

Lets put this another way. Low-beams illuminate out to about 180 feet (look it up) - at 45 mph (66 feet/second), that’s just shy of three seconds.

“it looks like the headlights didn’t illuminate her until about 3 nanoseconds before the time of impact.”

and Honda after that fact were bulletproof.

A DECADE ago. 14+ years ago

“A 1 million+ vehicle recall was issued in 2004, because the automatic transmission that was installed in the 2003-2004 Honda Accord seemed to be prone to early failure. Severe gear damage/breakage could cause the transmission to unexpectedly seize, which could obviously lead to an accident.”

Remove-and-replace - which is what the shops do - is the same.

I am surprised to see Honda Accord and Toyota Corolla on this list. Unless, of course, it is “make it 200,000 miles after replacing the transmission”.

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https://www.cars.com/vehicledetail/detail/726299946/overview/

“Overall, it sounds like a teenager being a teenager.”

“used cars in the 1-3 yr old category, I’ve found there hasn’t been much depreciation to be had”

“the original MSRP on that car was almost $64,000" ($34,490)

Do you have auto insurance? Do they cover bicycle accidents?

 > like reading, texting, using a tablet or laptop or something

Tesla does not have an autonomous vehicle.

“But in self-driving cars, so far the cars have accounted for 100% of the accidents”

you have very little situational awareness because you’re not involved in the act of driving. If the car now suddenly needs you to take control - you have to drop everything, and try to take in what’s happening in an instant