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bird with big dick posted:My first one in the Mach was new sunglasses in the sunglass holder my old ones didn't rattle but the new ones did for some reason. The only rattle I've ever heard in the Bolt turned out to be the license plate. I stuck some adhesive felt from IKEA on the back of it and now there are no more rattles. Electric cars are real quiet.
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The Polestar (and probably every EV) has a relay that you can hear clicking when you hit the accelerator and that’s kind of annoying imo
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Wayne Knight posted:Yeah we could have cold, uncaring cameras issuing tickets automatically for this, with all the money going to some victims fund or road repairs or something. The red light running has gotten insane. Nearly every single light I'm sitting at I see someone run a red that's not even close like the cross traffic light is already green before they even enter the intersection.
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Wayne Knight posted:Yeah we could have cold, uncaring cameras issuing tickets automatically for this, with all the money going to some victims fund or road repairs or something. There are times when I feel like I'm the last person on earth who tries to keep it within 5% of the speed limit. I grow so frustrated by other people on the road being in a constant death race I'm starting to think something like this would actually be nice, especially if it was extremely widespread, like you couldn't drive more than 10 miles anywhere without getting on a couple of them.
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Elviscat posted:I have the right to refuse delivery, pretty sure I'm out my $500 if I do so. I'm sure the dealer would love this, since they take refused Machs and slap $10,000 on the hood. It’s up to the dealer, but mine refunded the deposit when we cancelled our original order.
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Indiana_Krom posted:There are times when I feel like I'm the last person on earth who tries to keep it within 5% of the speed limit. I grow so frustrated by other people on the road being in a constant death race I'm starting to think something like this would actually be nice, especially if it was extremely widespread, like you couldn't drive more than 10 miles anywhere without getting on a couple of them. I used to worry about this. Then I realized that other people going at or about the speed limit will never pass me. I stopped speeding *at all* after getting a ticket for going 58 in a 45 that had just been lowered the day before from 55. It was my second speeding ticket in a month, and I decided, gently caress it, people might get mad at me for going slower, but speeding is costing actual money. That was 30 years ago.
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Wayne Knight posted:Yeah we could have cold, uncaring cameras issuing tickets automatically for this, with all the money going to some victims fund or road repairs or something. There’s a few studies out there that have found that red light cameras don’t decrease accidents, they just change the kind of accidents that occur from angle collisions to rear end collisions as people slam in their brakes instead of coasting through the light. In some cases the studies found a total increase in accidents. So while automated enforcement isn’t necessarily counterproductive (speed cameras actually seem to work as intended) it is important to look at whether the way its structured is really just incentivizing drivers to trade one bad habit for another.
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YOLOsubmarine posted:There’s a few studies out there that have found that red light cameras don’t decrease accidents, they just change the kind of accidents that occur from angle collisions to rear end collisions as people slam in their brakes instead of coasting through the light. In some cases the studies found a total increase in accidents. A while ago, we took away horses from carriages, and it saved a lot of lives. Turned out that horses are unpredictable dipshits.
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YOLOsubmarine posted:There’s a few studies out there that have found that red light cameras don’t decrease accidents, they just change the kind of accidents that occur from angle collisions to rear end collisions as people slam in their brakes instead of coasting through the light. In some cases the studies found a total increase in accidents. I've heard the same on red light cameras, but the speed cameras I'm advocating for would have to be so frequent that you couldn't just learn where they are and modulate your speed around them. I get that it's fun to go fast and you should be able to drive as fast as the road conditions allow, but we really have lost that privilege. We as a society have definitively proven that not enough of us can be trusted to make those decisions wisely. Also, at some point the road features must be developed with some speed in mind so they can know how long to make on/off ramps.
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cruft posted:A while ago, we took away horses from carriages, and it saved a lot of lives. Turned out that horses are unpredictable dipshits. People are also unpredictable dipshits which is why the safest thing is to get as many of them as possible off the roads and into alternate forms of transportation. Sadly….<gestures at America>
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The problem y’all are discussing mainly comes from a lack of policing and the solution of many cameras would just be a massive expensive gift to the same people that caused the problem in the first place. Which they would just end up abusing for other poo poo
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I had family visiting from the east coast this past summer and they were blown away at seeing street racing in the middle of the day, in the heart of the city, on a busy freeway. It got to be old hat by the time they left it happened so often. People pull donuts EVERYWHERE including on my street where young kids play all the time. It's gone way beyond a few yahoos and is now something we live with daily and it loving sucks.
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Maybe what we really need is more public transportation and safer bike paths and pedestrian paths At the same time, lol some minimum level of enforcement is also necessary
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I think it's reasonable to create a law where if I have dash camera footage of someone running a red light and nearly killing me I'm allowed to chase them down and give them a moderate beating.
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bird with big dick posted:The red light running has gotten insane. Nearly every single light I'm sitting at I see someone run a red that's not even close like the cross traffic light is already green before they even enter the intersection. Americans barely understand what the lights mean.
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:The problem y’all are discussing mainly comes from a lack of policing and the solution of many cameras would just be a massive expensive gift to the same people that caused the problem in the first place. Surely police can be trusted to use a massively expanded surveillance footprint in a fair and equitable manner.
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Red light cameras are illegal in tx and people are extremely comfortable running reds for this reason, and probably because they were just stupid to begin with. Also, many red light cams had cities playing games with the signals and shortening the yellows. If all yellows got extended to 6 sec or whatever they are supposed to be for high speed roads it would lower the amount of panic stops. So I think they’re fine they just need to be implemented correctly. gently caress The Police and all but people learning they can drive like assholes with zero accountability is also a thing Infinotize fucked around with this message at 01:24 on Sep 1, 2022 |
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Wayne Knight posted:I've heard the same on red light cameras, but the speed cameras I'm advocating for would have to be so frequent that you couldn't just learn where they are and modulate your speed around them. The most effective speed mitigation has always been a police car on the side of the road in an obvious position. Not trying to catch anyone, but just straight sitting there. *Visible* presence is a deterrant that works, unlike speed cameras Speed cameras do not make roads safer. Visible police presence and driver training does. YOLOsubmarine posted:There’s a few studies out there that have found that red light cameras don’t decrease accidents, they just change the kind of accidents that occur from angle collisions to rear end collisions as people slam in their brakes instead of coasting through the light. In some cases the studies found a total increase in accidents. This appears to be correct. If politicians were actually concerned about reducing traffic light accidents, extending the timing of the yellow / amber and the time between red / green light makes the biggest difference.
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I really wish Nissan would bring their e-power stuff to the USA; while only a hybrid, they have very promising tech. Also, the MG4 looks very promising, maybe if we don't get that some competition to it will come over. e: Also heard about a Mazda MX-50 having some sort of minor collision requiring some part replacement that uh, they don't have parts for with such a limited run, so they totaled it... going to stick with avoid. Evil_Greven fucked around with this message at 02:06 on Sep 1, 2022 |
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WhiteHowler posted:The articles fixate too much on the danger of increased acceleration, which I don't think is going to be a huge factor in most serious accidents. Fatalities are way up because everyone's always staring at their phones while driving increasingly larger Canyoneros. That's it. That's the driving factor. the thing that is loving absolutely nuts to me is when I see people going by in a car that I KNOW has CarPlay and Android Auto with their phone up to their ear or lookin down at it. What the gently caress man.
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Isn't the reason for the switch to SUVs and trucks in the US because they are taxed differently? Or were at any rate. A driving culture where people routinely run red lights must absolutely suck. Not based on any evidence but ré: red light cameras I feel like getting rear ended must be less dangerous than getting t-boned, and maybe longer yellow phases on lights would mitigate that a bit. We have loads of red light cameras in the city. I guess people drive pretty sedately here, outside Valais country roads that is.
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The biggest reason is that they have lower CAFE mileage targets and CAFE is a clusterfuck.
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bird with big dick posted:What kind of things have you had and were you able to fix them? I have a full set of trim tools and I figure I'm probably better off taking care of poo poo like this myself rather than trying to get Tesla to do it. If you want to go down the rabbit hole: https://shop.newgatesimms.com/product/squeaks-and-rattles-kit/ I also have some various foam rubber and felt tape collected over the years, this is good for electrical wiring: https://www.amazon.com/Tesa-adhesive-wiring-original-ISOBAND/dp/B00XPDVER2 The two key items though, are a stethoscope and a patient driver that will recreate the noise while you try to find it with your stethoscope from a passenger seat. Finding the noise is 80% of the battle, then you just have to decide if you want to lube it so it doesn't make stick-slip squeaks and crackles, or tie it down or jam it so it can't move.
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The most effective way to control speed hasn't been mentioned. It's effective road design. People will go as fast as they think they can on any given road. Roads need to be complete (meaning a protected bike lane and a separated sidewalk), lanes as narrow as possible and have road furniture, like bollards, raised crossings, basically everything to force cars to slow down least they gently caress up and run into a solid object. This is for non freeway/interstate roads obviously. Interstate/freeway speeding can probably be enforced by speed cameras. Maybe geo restriction speed limits will become a thing once there are enough "connected" cars on the road? I'd give anything to make it impossible for cars to go over 10mph in a neighborhood.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:the thing that is loving absolutely nuts to me is when I see people going by in a car that I KNOW has CarPlay and Android Auto with their phone up to their ear or lookin down at it. What the gently caress man. Like, my boomer mom is pretty tech-savvy (she was an engineer for a NASA contractor) and has had an Android phone for years, but if she got a new car I'm 99% sure she wouldn't think to connect the two unless someone directly told her it was possible.
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:The most effective speed mitigation has always been a police car on the side of the road in an obvious position. Not trying to catch anyone, but just straight sitting there. *Visible* presence is a deterrant that works, unlike speed cameras IDK I'm pretty convinced that speed cameras every mile that auto-mail you a ticket for every one you pass over the speed limit would get people to stay under the limit. It would become very expensive to drive quickly. Happy Noodle Boy posted:The problem y’all are discussing mainly comes from a lack of policing and the solution of many cameras would just be a massive expensive gift to the same people that caused the problem in the first place. My post specifically called out the police abdicating their duty and revenue collected from this not getting anywhere near the pigs. The police gave up on keeping roads safe, the roads still need to be safe, gently caress the police, but still punish dangerous drivers. I don't care if you disagree, it doesn't matter anyway because I'm not in any position of power and this will never happen.
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When I bought a new car the dealer had a person to show me how to do that poo poo. I didn't really need the help and they were glad of it but they were fully prepared to show me how to pair my phone via bluetooth and how to use CarPlay/Android Auto as well as show me some other random features that were hard to find or somewhat illogical (turn the power mirror selector down for defrost, etc). I am probably just completely isolated from the normal car ownership experience for many reasons but particularly because I spend a lot of time in rental cars in places where I don't know where I'm going, so setting up CarPlay is very important to me.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:When I bought a new car the dealer had a person to show me how to do that poo poo. I didn't really need the help and they were glad of it but they were fully prepared to show me how to pair my phone via bluetooth and how to use CarPlay/Android Auto as well as show me some other random features that were hard to find or somewhat illogical (turn the power mirror selector down for defrost, etc). The “show you how to connect your phone” thing has happened for the past four or five new cars we’ve bought.
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cruft posted:The only rattle I've ever heard in the Bolt turned out to be the license plate. I stuck some adhesive felt from IKEA on the back of it and now there are no more rattles. This is good to hear! I’ve got a bolt euv on order and I am really excited about it. How’s build quality felt to you overall?
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Bringing down speeds seems achievable, but I still don’t know what you do for distracted driving. A camera can’t easily detect that.
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The interior camera in the Mach e is pretty goddamn good at it.
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Evil_Greven posted:I really wish Nissan would bring their e-power stuff to the USA; while only a hybrid, they have very promising tech. E-power is only really suitable for low speed stop start traffic. The new Honda system is smarter as it allows the petrol engine to directly power the wheels where that make sense.
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bird with big dick posted:The interior camera in the Mach e is pretty goddamn good at it. I mean exterior cameras, even if they mandated those cameras in cars tomorrow it take 20 years for them to be in every car on the road. I definitely don’t tust cops to do the enforcement, they would just be biased in who they chose to punish.
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On rattle chat, the only rattle I get from my EV6 is the back seatbelt. Probably need to attach felt somewhere for it. It goes away if we tuck the seatbelt buckle between the seat and the side of the car. The car is so quiet otherwise I usually have to stop and tuck it in there so it doesn't annoy me.
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raggedphoto posted:I had family visiting from the east coast this past summer and they were blown away at seeing street racing in the middle of the day, in the heart of the city, on a busy freeway. It got to be old hat by the time they left it happened so often. People pull donuts EVERYWHERE including on my street where young kids play all the time. It's gone way beyond a few yahoos and is now something we live with daily and it loving sucks. Take video of license plate. Submit said video to cops. Cops go and seize car. Cops put car in crusher. (If you auction it it will just end up doing doughnuts again.) Problem solved. Or something like that. Lots of places in Europe solved street racing pretty well by feeding the cars to the crusher on the 1st or 2nd violation. This could be solved the same way. Never going to happen here though. The cops just don't care. Antillie fucked around with this message at 15:10 on Sep 1, 2022 |
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marshmonkey posted:I mean exterior cameras, even if they mandated those cameras in cars tomorrow it take 20 years for them to be in every car on the road. Dark Brandon’s version of cash for clunkers is going to be to just give everyone in the US a Mach-e
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:the thing that is loving absolutely nuts to me is when I see people going by in a car that I KNOW has CarPlay and Android Auto with their phone up to their ear or lookin down at it. What the gently caress man. I don't get it, but I also went out of my way to retrofit Sync 3 parts from a newer car specifically to get Android Auto in mine so I'm not normal. KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:The biggest reason is that they have lower CAFE mileage targets and CAFE is a clusterfuck. Also gas guzzler tax doesn't apply to trucks. Passenger cars that get worse than 22.5 MPG have a one-time tax somewhere between $1000 and $7700 on purchase depending on how bad they are. A Charger Hellcat or Mustang GT500 buyer pays a few grand in penalties on purchase, where the same person buying a Ram TRX or Raptor R that uses more or less the same motor even less efficiently doesn't.
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bird with big dick posted:Dark Brandon’s version of cash for clunkers is going to be to just give everyone in the US a Mach-e They'd have to call that clunkers for clunkers
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And because the CAFE formulas are extra dumb it's part of what pushes manufacturers to make trucks wider/longer wheelbase because that eases the fuel efficiency requirement.
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