These are people who care about cars but prioritize low TCO and high reliability (through predictable, progressive failure modes).

Another thing to consider is how many people still do not wear seatbelt. according to the CDC over half the people killed in automobile accidents are not wearing their seat belts. If your too lazy to spend the time to put the seatbelt on then your too lazy to drive. I not saying to go back to automatic seatbelts but…

I own one of these and I care about cars. Granted, it's my wife's vehicle, but having it instead of a brown Volvo station wagon that probably needs a lot of attention allows me to focus my efforts on cars that I enjoy. Also, the Camry is quite pleasant to drive, even if it is uninteresting.

I think the exciting part of this is reducing needless traffic jams from lizard-brained individuals creating that dreaded accordion affect. You don’t need to follow the car in front of you so closely, or cede control of speed whilst on the highway and get some sweet fuel economy like the semi-autonomous caravan of…

V2V just aids the driver. It’s a great way to increase information to the car’s systems and driver. There’s nothing to necessarily affect attention at all. Far better than this crap ‘autonomous’ stuff that is only a distraction and risk-increaser and no help at all.

At the same time, I don’t want to have to pay Mustang to have its cars not kill me.

Also, the strategy requires that all other vehicles and pedestrians carry this obscure and likely proprietary gadget. I’m pretty sure a car company making a car that only avoids Mustanging you if you pay it for an electronic “don’t kill me” tag would count as extortion.

I don’t even own a car, but even I believe that drivers aren’t really the ones to take all the blame. Every day I see lots of pedestrians and cyclists with rather erratic behaviors that drivers cannot begin to predict e.g. walking with don’t walk signals up and the cars have the green light, cycling the wrong way,…

We’ve been trying to teach people since they started driving, and how well has that worked out.

Eliminate all the connectivity, driver aids, and other shit that enables people to not pay attention while driving.

This is what I was thinking. The accident for the guy in the Tesla wouldn’t have happened if he had been paying attention to driving and not Harry Potter.

While I agree with what you’re saying, 120 years of instruction and “driving is a privilege” haven’t quite met the bar.

That’s a good quote! Might have to borrow that one!

I used to live in Texas, been living on the West Coast since. I don’t disagree with you that the Texas market won’t go for this. And the same is true of much of the rest of the country’s interior. Hell, even along the coasts, large parts of the market won’t go for it. But that’s not what Honda’s going for - they’re…

Wait for it, wait for it... Hellcamino! Drive off the lot, lose all semblance of traction with the real wheels, time to go car shopping again

“here is where it counts. I’ll stick with my wagon ...”

As the owner of a 57 Coupe De Ville the correct term on just how big these things are is “you could have a roman orgy in the back” I cannot imagine getting min eup to speed and asking it to turn on biasply tires. I feel like it would just keel over and scrap the rockers on the cement.

Living in DFW, I see way more $60k Luxe Trucks than I see actual doing duty work trucks. Sure we have thousands of Fleet white f150's rolling around, but those dudes go home, park the work truck and hop in their King Ranch that never sees an actual ranch or dirt

On a drive back from Marfa, Texas a few years back, I was somewhere in the region along the border with Mexico, in places where I didn’t see anyone for hours. There were a few deer standing right in the middle of the road, watching me drive by. Then I started seeing convoys of pickup trucks, big ones, hauling workers…

I’m assuming with the username Laurie it’s the Laurie B. mentioned in the post.