Car safety nanny tech

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The beauty of most of this nanny tech is that if its working correctly you will never know its there.
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Ah...the beeling reverse aid. I used to piss my roommate off so much with the beeping reverse thing.

For the first 9 months she had her Fusion, nice car - do want, she didn't have her license. Consequently, when her husband wasn't carting her around I was. Ford's design is to alter the pitch and frequency as you get nearer and nearer to an object/kid/animal until it's one steady, shrill signal. I used to play chicken with the system to see how close I could get (only ever managed 4 inches before I stopped moving closer).

Backup cameras rock, but don't use it as a crutch. I have one and glance occasionally. My friend, thinks he's God's gift to motoring, bitches about it and says he'd disable such a system if he ever had it in a car. Says he learbed without it and is a better driver than those who use it blah blahblah. My opinion regarding backup cameras is that more information about your surroundings is better than less, especially in the age of high beltlines and kids who don't know not to walk behind a vehicle in motion.

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tankinbeans wrote:My opinion regarding backup cameras is that more information about your surroundings is better than less, especially in the age of high beltlines and kids who don't know not to walk behind a vehicle in motion.
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tankinbeans wrote:My opinion regarding backup cameras is that more information about your surroundings is better than less, especially in the age of high beltlines and kids who are completely unaware of their surroundings.
Fixed. Kids are kids, their attention spans aren't all that great, but the kids that live in my apartment complex are just idiots. They see a moving vehicle but continue running directly into the path of travel. Happened yesterday as I was riding through the complex.

No danger, of course, I was riding at around 5 mph, but it makes me question their sanity. They do this every single day.
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As someone who moves big vehicles in tight spaces on an almost daily basis, I love backup cameras. No reason not to have them. If Im not mistaken they will be a federal requirement in '17 or '18 model year vehicles.
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watkins wrote:As someone who moves big vehicles in tight spaces on an almost daily basis, I love backup cameras. No reason not to have them. If Im not mistaken they will be a federal requirement in '17 or '18 model year vehicles.
2018 according to this USA Today article.
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tankinbeans wrote: Backup cameras rock, but don't use it as a crutch.
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theholycow wrote:Of course you'll ask when the time comes, but here's advice on a few...

ABS: When you begin to skid the brake pedal will grind or click and push back at your foot. Don't pump the pedal like you would without ABS, just shove it as hard as you can steadily. The 2000 GM full size van you're driving almost certainly has ABS, so if you get some ice you'll get a chance to practice.

ESC: Don't worry about it, it will take care of itself.

Nav: Don't touch it while the car is moving. Pull over to do stuff with it. Or just ignore it.
i did not get ice. thankfully it dusted once, but i brought the vehicle back before the snow storms :D
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wannabe wrote:
theholycow wrote:Of course you'll ask when the time comes, but here's advice on a few...

ABS: When you begin to skid the brake pedal will grind or click and push back at your foot. Don't pump the pedal like you would without ABS, just shove it as hard as you can steadily. The 2000 GM full size van you're driving almost certainly has ABS, so if you get some ice you'll get a chance to practice.

ESC: Don't worry about it, it will take care of itself.

Nav: Don't touch it while the car is moving. Pull over to do stuff with it. Or just ignore it.
i did not get ice. thankfully it dusted once, but i brought the vehicle back before the snow storms :D
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What about wind, water, or heart?
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Yeah!
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watkins wrote:The beauty of most of this nanny tech is that if its working correctly you will never know its there.

Yeah, that's exactly right. I have no opposition to any nanny tech stuff as long as it doesn't interfere with my driving pleasure. And by that I mean it needs to be transparent unless it's active. That said, I've heard of quite a few people on the Jeep forums complaining about the radar-based cruised control system (it's optional and I chose not to get it myself) for not behaving properly. Jeep/Chrysler seems to be proactive in bringing newer technology to their vehicle line-up, but somehow can't figure out how to make it work properly beforehand.....so early adopters always seem to end up acting as beta testers.
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Shadow wrote:Yeah, that's exactly right. I have no opposition to any nanny tech stuff as long as it doesn't interfere with my driving pleasure. And by that I mean it needs to be transparent unless it's active. That said, I've heard of quite a few people on the Jeep forums complaining about the radar-based cruised control system (it's optional and I chose not to get it myself) for not behaving properly. Jeep/Chrysler seems to be proactive in bringing newer technology to their vehicle line-up, but somehow can't figure out how to make it work properly beforehand.....so early adopters always seem to end up acting as beta testers.
That's why for years, the advice has been never to adopt the first year of a new vehicle. You could also potentially say that for any piece of vaguely complicated tech. The manufacturers, no matter how much testing they do, cannot find every possible problem that might come up compared to when you sell thousands of them.
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Squint wrote:
Shadow wrote:Yeah, that's exactly right. I have no opposition to any nanny tech stuff as long as it doesn't interfere with my driving pleasure. And by that I mean it needs to be transparent unless it's active. That said, I've heard of quite a few people on the Jeep forums complaining about the radar-based cruised control system (it's optional and I chose not to get it myself) for not behaving properly. Jeep/Chrysler seems to be proactive in bringing newer technology to their vehicle line-up, but somehow can't figure out how to make it work properly beforehand.....so early adopters always seem to end up acting as beta testers.
That's why for years, the advice has been never to adopt the first year of a new vehicle. You could also potentially say that for any piece of vaguely complicated tech. The manufacturers, no matter how much testing they do, cannot find every possible problem that might come up compared to when you sell thousands of them.
Yeah, if everyone had waited 15 years before buying a Chevy Cruze, all those needless deaths caused by faulty ignition switches could have been avoided.
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Rope-Pusher wrote:
Squint wrote:That's why for years, the advice has been never to adopt the first year of a new vehicle. You could also potentially say that for any piece of vaguely complicated tech. The manufacturers, no matter how much testing they do, cannot find every possible problem that might come up compared to when you sell thousands of them.
Yeah, if everyone had waited 15 years before buying a Chevy Cruze, all those needless deaths caused by faulty ignition switches could have been avoided.
Ouch, I guess it isn't too soon, huh? Oh wait, 15 years, yeah.

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