Recent content by flyinghook

The news reports no effort was made to apply the brakes, and given that lives were lost, I think the two things plus that excerpt from your manual may reveal what happened. If they were going even 84mph, the car ahould have slowed to at least 59mph, which given the high safety rating, I would...

With the array of sensors on the front of the car attached to the computer with the program on it designed to stop the car if there's someone in front of you that isn't going the speed you are collectively called autopilot?

I never implied it caused an accident, just that there should have been 2 parts of the system to react, and neither did. I know people don't like when someone comes onto a forum and stirs thoughts about (especially) a car, but that's all I was trying to do. I was a bit (practically sleeping)...

I understand nobody is going to report the systems working, but these are rather severe in the outcome, thus the cause for my questions/ concern. I also realize these are stationary objects (I've actually done quite a bit of research on these systems in road cars) , but there are systems that...

Not trolling, asking a serious question. This makes 3 accidents that I've heard of, and even without autonomous driving these cars should have stopped themselves to avoid the accident, and with it on they should have stopped or changed lanes. Not only that, but there are now 2 fatal crashes in...

With the fatal accidents mounting up because of blatant failure of the basic automatic emergency braking to stop the car, much less the autonomous driving recognizing the obstacle and changing lanes, would you still consider this feature? Automatic emergency braking had been out for a little...

oregon gatorline platinum supertwist. It's so quiet I can only hear it when I rev the trimmer. One thing to note also is, the more noise you eliminate, the more noises you can hear. for example, when I shut off my car I can then hear the fuel pump, infotainment cooling fan, ect... So at a...

I would love a quiet car, and all kinds of things can be done to accomplish this. zero gaps between the doors and pillars of the car, a smooth underside, no whip antenna. A lot of these things can be retrofitted to existing cars, and are all likely going to be engineered into the model 3, since...

You're upset they got bailed out? Chrysler has been bailed out multiple times (twice that I can remember), yet less people bring that up than gm.

Because for some reason everyone likes and buys fords, despite issues like grenading modular v8s through several years (seen a lot of these on the side of the road, known a couple personally to blow up), tauruses with failing transmissions, mustangs are slow and built cheaper than my saturn. I...

My gm products have also proven very reliable. The fit and finish has been on par for vehicles of their vintage, with only one exception, but that one was also cheaper than the competition, more reliable, more power, and better gas mileage. There are better cars than gm products, but imo, they...

I like GM cars (and have owned several), but I HATE the aveo. it's so short, even with stability control, in the winter the ass can overtake the front (done it, I had to keep the car under control around a corner my longer saturn sadan would have made it around with no stability control and no...

The model 3, lacking a lot of the servicable parts, and including out of warranty repairs of around $700, all synthetic oil changes, and all services up to 100K on my saturn, the model 3 would exceed the 10 year/100K mile cost of ownership of my ICE car in 2 years of "annual service", not...

my local dealership charges $200 for this service. Luckily I didn't have to pay for the first service since the dealership we bought it from promised all due services were completed when we bought the car (which I called them out on, and made them honor), and I planned on researching an...

So to stay under warranty, you HAVE to take it in for a 12 months/12500 mile service interval (for unspecified "services") get the brake fluid changed every 2 years/25000 miles (on a car with seldom used brakes), but the coolant is every 5 years/62000 miles. How hasn't anyone caught this and at...