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I want to believe there's no law about egress from rear seats in event of an emergency because the lawmakers know that cars pretty much only have one person in them for the majority of the time they're being driven.
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I've had to disassemble a child locked door to get myself out of the back of an Express panel van when the wind blew it closed I guess where I have a problem is that engaging child locks is a decision that has to be made, consciously or not, each time the door is closed. While they may have the same effect on the operation of the doors without power, simply not having a physical release mechanism is not equivalent to a child lock
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mobby_6kl posted:Yeah you're apparently OK with leaving your mother in law locked in a burning car. He's probably not the only one. Tesla sale now increase as people buy them to shuttle their elderly inlaws around.. Midjack posted:Love to live in a nation state which requires human sacrifice as a pretext to intervene in business affairs. Thats the price of freedom bub.
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All regulations are written in blood, so obviously the blood sacrifice is critical to the process.
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The Door Frame posted:I've had to disassemble a child locked door to get myself out of the back of an Express panel van when the wind blew it closed The child locks in every car I've owned are set from either a switch or keyhole near the door latch which is only accessible when the door is open. Once they're activated they stay activated - the one in the side where my child sits has been set since I got the car. Not saying they're equivalently bad, just that the effect is similar.
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 The nostalgia bug must have bit me hard because dang I kinda want to take one of these and ratrod it out. This might be because everything is huge in 2023, or maybe because I was a kid when I last saw one up close, but the Aerostar is so much smaller than I remember it being.
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NoWake posted:
Try changing the spark plugs in one and get back to me. Younger me is still traumatized.
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The Door Frame posted:There's a disturbing number of people who claim to be trapped inside of their Teslas when the fire starts, even if there's no crash or anything to block the doors Disgruntled Bovine posted:That's because getting out of a Tesla without power ranges from difficult to impossible depending on which vehicle and where you're sitting. oh my god they tried to fix this with an oth software update to warn you to get out while it still had power. lmao. its an early runaway combustion warning system? lol
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KoRMaK posted:oh my god they tried to fix this with an oth software update to warn you to get out while it still had power. lmao. its an early runaway combustion warning system? lol Oh that explains the video I saw recently of a Tesla at a boat ramp underwater and on fire! I'll try to find it again. https://youtu.be/1zaV-JSwzzA?si=WiisB4o-rSBDJPIM
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Until MItsubishi's owner writes an AI saying that they're a meme lord, not terrible
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NoWake posted:
if you listen closely to this picture you can hear the power steering pump
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Once upon a time, AI liked cool cars (and never did anything about owning one) Now it's just the worst garbage from like 1997 (never did anything about owning one)
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Ether Frenzy posted:Once upon a time, AI liked cool cars (and never did anything about owning one) Get a load of this guy, coming up with rules for insanity.
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Modern cars... https://www.engadget.com/every-car-is-a-smart-car-and-its-a-privacy-nightmare-193010478.html quote:Nissan’s privacy policy, for example, covers broad and frankly irrelevant classes of user information, such as “sexual orientation, sexual activity, precise geolocation, health diagnosis data, and genetic information” under types of personal data collected.
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They should focus on figuring out how to make a loving transmission that lasts more than 50k miles.
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TEMPLE GRANDIN OS posted:if you listen closely to this picture you can hear the power steering pump Oh yeah? This is what I hear https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3gnIML5-GM Dammit none of the commercials I can find have the actual song line "This is the dawning of the AGE OF THE AEROSTAR. AGE OF THE AEROSTAR" that I remember
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Is this still available? Asking for a friend.
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The Ford Aerostar will forever be the van our Scoutmaster drove. In that terrible two tone light blue with dark blue accent color.
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How does a car even know your sexual orientation or activity? I get if you're constantly plugging in warhammer shops or dnd conventions into the satnav it could fairly reliably infer your answers are "n/a, none" but for regular people it doesn't really seem like something your car would know.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:I want to believe there's no law about egress from rear seats in event of an emergency because the lawmakers know that cars pretty much only have one person in them for the majority of the time they're being driven. There's no law because until Elon Musk ran a car company there's never been anyone stupid enough to remove emergency exit functionality.
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Ewwwwww https://twitter.com/AutoExpress/status/1722664094057287941?t=Ua6tbQz0tvf6vxvX8nRuLg&s=19
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Yeah just what we needed another size of crossover
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What exactly makes that a crossover instead of a sedan? Just marketing?
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Speleothing posted:What exactly makes that a crossover instead of a sedan? Just marketing? High beltline and seating position. The illusion of having more ground clearance with high wheel arches
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TEMPLE GRANDIN OS posted:if you listen closely to this picture you can hear the power steering pump If you mean "hard of hearing and a mile away" by closely. But that goes for drat near every Ford from the 60s to 00s. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 14:18 on Nov 11, 2023 |
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Ewwwwww Looks like poo poo. *turns monitor on* Still pretty bad.
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I hate that with these small crossovers we've somehow come full circle back to regular sized sedans, except now they're all a foot taller and a thousand pounds heavier than they should be, and they also have worse sight lines than a dump truck and less usable space than a Gremlin.
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Sagebrush posted:I hate that with these small crossovers we've somehow come full circle back to regular sized sedans, except now they're all a foot taller and a thousand pounds heavier than they should be, and they also have worse sight lines than a dump truck and less usable space then a Gremlin. This is something I cannot drill through people's heads. The space may be bigger inside a lifted sedan, but the space is vertical and less useful overall The Door Frame fucked around with this message at 18:05 on Nov 11, 2023 |
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TEMPLE GRANDIN OS posted:if you listen closely to this picture you can hear the power steering pump Wow that just triggered my memory. My mom had one for a few years when they were newish and ours would have the sliding door get stuck open if you accidentally opened it all they way. I have a very vivid memory riding around with the door just stuck wide open going to my dad's work so he could un-jam it.
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Most of the time it isn't even any bigger! Car doors and walls are super thick these days with all the airbags and crap crammed into them (I suppose this is unavoidable), and the manufacturer's attempts to make a chunky ungainly vehicle look "sporty" by raking the rear quarters means that the interior volume is smaller than in a more practical sedan or wagon.
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ili posted:How does a car even know your sexual orientation or activity? I get if you're constantly plugging in warhammer shops or dnd conventions into the satnav it could fairly reliably infer your answers are "n/a, none" but for regular people it doesn't really seem like something your car would know. Clearly you've never tried to bang in the back of an 80s Civic in a dark corner of a parking lot. ..... what? Why is everyone looking at me with that WTF look?
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randomidiot posted:Clearly you've never tried to bang in the back of an 80s Civic in a dark corner of a parking lot. Try a Miata. Was not the most comfortable for us.
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CommieGIR posted:Try a Miata. Was not the most comfortable for us. Collateral Damage fucked around with this message at 00:30 on Nov 14, 2023 |
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Probably some incident details and statistics around your propensity for being rear-ended or tailgating.
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The guys involved with the Polestar without a rear windscreen gave reasoning as to why. The guy was quoted as saying "how often do you look behind you anyway?" and then went on to say they needed to remove it in order to have enough strength for the enormous full length panoramic glass roof. Maybe if you put some glass in the doors your cars wouldn't feel so dark and dingy, lads. Maybe if they didn't all weigh 5000lbs you wouldn't need 9" thick A pillars, 12" B pillars and a C pillar that wraps around the entire rear of the car in case it rolls... 
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CommieGIR posted:Try a Miata. Was not the most comfortable for us. 2nd gen CRX is also on my list, but I dare say that'd be a tossup against the Miata. Well. Maybe. CRX has enough room for two very skinny people in the hatch area (and I was all of 130ish lbs back then). Miata would be hard (  ) mode I guess.The Matrix just feels like cheating at this point. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 20:31 on Nov 11, 2023 |
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