The issue is people panicking or needing to react quickly in order to avoid the obstacle. It doesn't matter much if you avoid the animal but lose control, drive off the road and roll 4 times (which is a distinct possibility at 60mph.) Like I said in my last response you or I could come up with hypothetical situations…

4th - The thing that pisses me off is that when the 'American' car companies conduct business overseas they follow the rules wherever it is. However, we don't seem interested interested in ensuring foreign companies are operating on the same playing field as the domestic competitors here.

You can come up with hypothetical situations until you are blue in the face as can I. If you go to swerve around an animal and lose control of your vehicle at highway speeds it can get pretty ugly. Since the animal might be walking/running across the road if you swerve you could hit it whereas if you had just driven…

Can I haz 120d hatch plz?

Your little mini-rant about ABS really only drives home the benefit of ABS over traditional brakes. It should be noted that most cars understeer when you lose traction because they are designed that way. I suppose people feel that it is 'safer' than oversteer.

It seems like you are validating a lot of my points for me:

More like the private sector is focused on short-term goals and quarterly profits. The idea of big, long-term r&d projects has died out a lot in the private sector. There's actually a book recently talking about this, most specifically focusing on Bell Labs in its heyday…

A computer by its very definition has more logic than a human brain. That really is their 'weakness', they operate based on logic. It is also capable of making exact calculations millions of times a second. Through the sensors and other information it can calculate (and recalculate) the distance between the object and…

I would imagine where many of these crashes are occurring causing a pileup would be a non-issue. However hitting a moose may hurt you or your car. Likewise, swerving to avoid something could easily lead to a collision in itself. The volvo city safety system (or whatever marketing name they give it) has reduced…

Maybe it is a regional thing. Here's on the east coast I would say that I still see a lot of K, even by Highway Patrol/State Police. Most of the Ka I come across is instant-on. I just leave my V1 in logic so that it blocks out most of the x band false alarms.

I did a little poking and I couldn't seem to find out. Checked on the EPA's site and the site for the division that does the actual testing and they don't seem to point out which vehicles are actually tested/audited.

R2: Ugh, I hope these lawsuits don't become commonplace. I am usually one of the last people to defend 'big business' but any of these mileage lawsuits are stupid. That is what the car got according to X testing procedure. If your driving habits don't allow that to happen that is not the fault of the car or the…

Autobahn....right.....

K band can be police. I believe you are thinking of X band.

There are some pretty pricey neighborhoods in Bergen County.

Maybe initially but not eventually. I bet you would see an increase in private or semi-private tracks though.

His show is pretty lame too.

Self-driving cars folks.

Airbus is building a factory here to help in their contract bidding. While they may be creating jobs in Alabama there really will be no net job gain for the US if it means they take a contract from Boeing. It's a zero-sum game.