Cause the system could have done far, far more to make this a non-issue. For all the warnings and messages it popped up, it could have just disengaged. Or been able to tell more reliably that the user isn’t alert, like the Mercedeses can with the facial camera.

Yeah it feels like that to me.

2.5 years ago I got a 2011 NC 5 speed soft top with 50k miles for $14k. It’s been an amazing car since then. Can’t recommend enough. I don’t get the hate for it. It’s big and comfy enough I can daily drive it and have driven it 8 hours a day at 80 miles an hour not infrequently with no issues for either me or the car…

Does Tesla allow users to read Harry Potter? If they don’t, then it’s simply not as good as a true autopilot.

Once a pilot reaches cruising altitude, flying the plane becomes a simpler, sometimes even monotonous, activity. To pass the time on long flights, pilots are allowed by the FAA to eat, take bathroom breaks, read books, even work on a crossword puzzle.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/fatal-distraction-forgetting-a-child-in-thebackseat-of-a-car-is-a-horrifying-mistake-is-it-a-crime/2014/06/16/8ae0fe3a-f580-11e3-a3a5-42be35962a52_story.html

Please learn:

I think that’s just an immobilizer thing. In my car, the instrument cluster, transmission computer, and engine computer have to all have the same shared secret in order for the car to start. This makes it rather difficult for someone to just swap something over and roll away. You’ve gotta disassemble large parts of…

It wasn’t even that high tech. The Nissans used a little plastic record and corresponding record player.

This has been my life the past couple summers. I’ve done a couple dozen 8 hour drive days in it by now. It’s pretty alright, and of course excellent once you get there. The gearing in it means you get 4 grand revs doing 80. It’s still 30MPG, but it kind of worries me long term.

That has made the situation even worse. People get enough light from their DRLs they think they’re good, and then seem to be more likely to fail to turn on the main lights and rear lights when necessary.

Counterpoint: it should be illegal to turn off your headlights. My old car wouldn’t let me. It was literally impossible for me to forget to turn them on or off. The number of people I see who need to have their lights on boggles the mind. It still took 100,000 miles to burn out the first set of light bulbs.

Jeep actually almost had this right. They had a separate microcontroller in the head unit running a very limited system whose sole job was to prevent the head unit’s main processor from sending unsavory data over the bus. The flaw? This microcontroller was reprogrammable from the head unit itself. Oops.

It took this long to hide the cheat in the new code ;)

Psh, already been done. In a Porsche, no less.

Hell yeah. That way when a 99 year old in a truck falls asleep behind the wheel and rear ends me, I’m guaranteed to die. Saves the trouble of arguing with insurance too.

1. I wish this weren’t necessary. There are several places around where I live where turning right requires stopping to 1mph from 40 or else you’re basically guaranteed to lose a fender/tire on a curb or pole or rut or something. I really, really hate it.

As someone whose aftermarket radio is secretly Android, no.

The one I rebuilt in a W124 didn’t have a linkage this complicated. As I remember it had the red and yellow gears in the same position, but the red gear just turned and moved a connecting rod and slider exactly like an engine’s crankshaft and piston.