tigcraft Posted March 20 Report Share Posted March 20 This made me laugh and feel smug this morning when i opened my monthly Which Magazine. It makes me enjoy my ‘basic’ Arosa much more when I read stuff like this and i know I’ve done the right thing by owning and driving a ‘drivers’ car. What’s point of getting a loan to the hilt for a new car for the spec you would never use or want? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mk2 Posted March 20 Report Share Posted March 20 Yep. I recently hired a brand new car (and yes, I hated it). I had two bloody scary incidents... Was passing a cyclist, just as normal, all safe and lovely, when all of a sudden the damn car swerved towards him. And it really meant it. Like, "I'm going to get him!". Had to really force the steering HARD to avoid hitting him. Who would have been to blame had I hit the guy? The other, on the return trip was when a partly deflated (metalised) helium balloon blew across the road just a few feet in front of the car. Yep, the car applied full emergency braking causing the car behind me to just miss me and do a perfect 180 in the road. Fortunately nothing happened. Not impressed with this experimental technology. It's certainly not foolproof. Safety systems need to be 100% effective, not 99.99%. Imagine one in ten thousand fire extinguishers is actually filled with petrol. That's the gamble. No wonder people are turning the systems off. Thanks for posting this! 👍🏻 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Meader Posted March 20 Report Share Posted March 20 Unpopular opinion (maybe, idk): This new technology being put into cars has a lot of potential to be something truly groundbreaking, but it's not quite ready yet. Still veeery early days. It almost seems as though companies discovered something and gone 'ahh yeah we'll include that' to make themselves look flashy, despite said piece of tech still in its infancy and at its most prone to malfunction. And another thing, once this tech does get so advanced that its much safer, its gonna make us worse drivers, or so I think. We're already starting to see this with huge screens, safety assists and whatnot. It's distracting and dangerous, especially when modern cars are in a bit of an awkward age, you drive it, except when it wants to drive you! That's enough to put me off, i'm more than happy driving something without its own mind.. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigcraft Posted March 21 Author Report Share Posted March 21 And such simple things as dropping your windows by the feel of the switches, adjusting radio etc is done safely on old cars. My Arosa makes me feel alive, good and a sense of achievement. My brain has a workout, that’s best thing for my body. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Meader Posted March 21 Report Share Posted March 21 7 hours ago, tigcraft said: And such simple things as dropping your windows by the feel of the switches, adjusting radio etc is done safely on old cars. My Arosa makes me feel alive, good and a sense of achievement. My brain has a workout, that’s best thing for my body. Amen to that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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