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I was just browsing some car forums and found out that lot of car companies are offering safety features like precollision warning, lane departure alert, adaptive cruise control etc as a standard feature (e.g. Toyota sense). I understand this is not free and cost of these features in already baked into the vehicle price but i have not seen many companies offering Blind spot warning as a standard feature. What could be the reason for this?
Making more money could ofcourse be one reason but what else could be stopping them?
Thanks,
Why not rely on yourself instead of an idiotbeeper?
Back to the OP's original question. Companies don't do things altruistically. Either they're compelled by legislation to include certain safety items (see: seat belts, air bags, padded dash, high mounted brake light, backup camera, etc) in which they bake the cost into the overall price, or there's a significant demand, and they sell it as a stand alone, or even better part of an overall option package, for which there's an additional charge.
I ave a neck and it still works. I woudl prefer not to be force to pay for blind spot warning that I would likely never pay attention to. The last thing we need are more distractions for drivers. Until we have self driving cars, drivers should be looking at the road.
We probably wouldn't need them if people would adjust their mirrors correctly.
Yep. It's as if driving fundamentals are gone now. Replaced by the thought that driving is a right and not a privilege. Technology is replacing the basics of driving. People are more concerned with their phones than they are about the road.
I ave a neck and it still works. I woudl prefer not to be force to pay for blind spot warning that I would likely never pay attention to. The last thing we need are more distractions for drivers. Until we have self driving cars, drivers should be looking at the road.
Then you should be the biggest proponent of blind spot warning. If you’re turning your neck you’re not looking ahead. That noise shouldn’t be distracting you, it should be be telling you you’re about to merge into somebody.
Toyota offers a bird's eye view camera for parallel parking; Honda, the leader in car safety, does not. Not sure if the camera raises up from the roof like 30 feet into the air.
THIS^^^ We took the safe driving course to get a reduction in our insurance. Thankfully no points for either of us. That was the biggest take away from that course. Here are the instructions.
To adjust the driver's side-view mirror, place your head against the left side window and set the mirror so you can just barely see the side of the car in the mirror's right side. To adjust the passenger's side-view mirror, position your head so that it is just above the center console.
It is a little awkward to get used to initially bit now, anything else is impossible for us.
So true! Of course my personal cars’s mirrors are adjusted exactly to this standard but it is so telling to see whenever I get in the shared company car, with most drivers in our tiny firm about the same size as I, completely have the mirrors re-adjusted inward to the worthless setting of seeing the same reflected image in two mirrors at the same time. They must think the same of me when they get in. “Why in the world would anyone have their outboard mirrors adjusted to tilt so far outward? To see the cars in your blind spot you idiot!
90% of folks will never do this- it is absolutely untenable to them. Old, bad habits die hard.
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