Even my Sportwagen has this with the dual-clutch auto. I had an '89 Subaru wagon that had this as well. I like it just takes getting used to. On my VW, you lift off the brake and it holds for about 3-4 seconds UNLESS you touch the gas then it just goes so should be unobtrusive with a stick. And yeah, how do you argue about safety stuff...but this is BITOG so well..yeah...
Agreed on the happy part. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if they were the ones who pushed this through, same as seat belt laws years ago.
Oh yeah i forgot about that. They never lowered rates from what i heard and if you didn't have a seatbelt when pulled over or drove in a car without one they used that to justify raising your rates because they now considered you higher risk. Now that new cars will have it older cars without it will likely get a bump. Given that it'll become a mandated thing it could become part of inspection since it'd be easy to argue that it's necessary for it to work for a car to be safe and road legal and if you get in a crash and it's found that a code was stored before the collision your insurance could and probably will punish you for it and who knows they could even deny coverage because you didn't fix your mandated anti collision equipment immediately.
Interesting when we say “happy.” My bro is a SVP in the industry and their pay is high, their hours are short, their benefits are off the hook. Ex 10 years and an addl 20 days off. But people job hop and seem not to care about the bennies. So when we say happy, it’d be curious to see if people, or a faceless entity, is happy. They do have money. Look at the sports Endorsements. Wouldn’t it be great if their interests were aligned with policyholders.
NH has no helmet laws for motorcycles. Guess who pays for the vegetable's with severe head injuries from no helmets accidents
IIRC that goes for Florida too. When my father was in the hospital a guy in his late 40's was in the bed next to him. I got to know him from visiting my father everyday. This guy was waiting for a kidney transplant. One day after he came back from dialysis we were talking and got on the topic of organ donors. He said the most organs came from motorcycle accidents in Florida. I never fact checked it but I can believe it.
Like anything else. It may save 100 lives at the loss of one..if that. Nothing is perfect. Auto braking is a godsend.
The gov. calls the shots with vehicle standards. Driving is not a "right"
Likely same folks in this thread that need help at work opening .pdfs.
I wonder how it would work driving into NYC during rush hour when a 20 mile trip can and has taken me 3 hours, with morons doing insane low speed maneuvers, cutting off, jockeying for position with zero consideration, tailgating then slamming on brakes. I bet the system will get a workout, hopefully in 2029 when it becomes mandated it can be shut off, or work w/o driving the car owner insane.
