It’s one of the mandates along with a burst of new spending aimed at improving auto safety amid escalating road fatalities in the $1 trillion infrastructure package that President Joe Biden is expected to sign soon.
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So they're talking this possibly starting in 2026 which means it'll be a full 20 years before most cars have this technology.
Hell, I drive a 20 year old truck now and it's waiting on a new engine - it'll be good for another 20 years.
Kinda sorta off topic - my shop told me it would be a month before they could get to my truck because nobody is buying new(er) vehicles these days even if they can find one with low mileage at a decent price - everybody's doing repairs instead.
Great. Another $1,000+ dollars onto the cost of cars for "safety" measures that only "protect" <1% of people.
ReplyDeleteJust like seatbelt alarms, seatbelt laws, helmet laws, airbag laws, side airbag laws, etc. Proof positive that yet another "slippery slope" argument has been proven completely justified.
My pick-up is 13 years old and I decided that putting money into repair and upkeep is a better return on investment them something newer that doesn't have what I want and has a lotta crap I don't want. Just had the clutch replaced and that should be the hardest service to get done. Took months to find a place that would do it.
ReplyDeletethe drunks will bypass the safety crap
ReplyDeleteRead the article. It's talking about cameras and sensors as part of the vehicle, not your simple blow-in-this-tube crap.
DeleteThe drunks will just buy older cars.
DeleteMy Lightning is a 2000 with 178,000 miles......be a while before I need a new one....damn, where did that 21 years go....
ReplyDeleteYou need to watch to push for electric, eventually the point will come where they will insist you stop using internal combustion engines.
ReplyDeleteWe've been waiting on a brass annealer from New Zealand for three months now. It's due some time in late January at the earliest.
ReplyDeleteConvenient to propose stupid things that only take effect after you leave office.
ReplyDeleteWhen the drunks get their license pulled down here....they move to Mopeds. No license required.
ReplyDeleteThey are offically known as DWI rides.
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My 06 Titan still kicking ass at 230,000, love it. Towed a couple tons up from TX to the Peninsula in Sept.
ReplyDeleteThere are a lot of wrecked cars with engines that have 100,000 miles on them. My next vehicle will be something that they built a lot of, with plenty of engines available. I might have to go backwards in time, to something like a Ford Taurus or Chevy Impala, but even if they are junky vehicles, they at least don't have government agents in them. Yet.
ReplyDeleteI imagine that before long, older cars will have special taxes on them, to make you have to want to get rid of them, so poor people can't afford to drive.
Walked out of the pool hall the other day and my buddies fairly new SUV was sitting out there with the engine running. It has a feature for remote start...thats great if the mob is wiring explosives on your ass because you dont pay up. But he was under the impression the thing would cut off when he was out of range. Gee..what a great feature..wait until you pull in the garage and you wake up dead the next morning.
ReplyDeleteShit: I was born in 1970, and my truck (3/4 ton GMC Sub) in '71. Runs like a champ!
ReplyDeleteReckon I'll die with it.
all of the cars destroyed during the cash for clunkers boondoggel would be nice to have around now ! maybe that was part of the plan. Fuckers !
ReplyDeleteBlow & go. You know it's coming. Better way to fix it is to fire the Mayor of Huntsville & the police chief here. Go to http://smartweb.madisoncountysheriffal.org/SmartWEBClient/Jail.aspx and look up just any random first name & go back about 5 years. Pick one of the people who comes up & search it. DUI after DUI after DUI. The DA here pretty much only prosecutes death DUI's and gives everyone else membership in the $tate$ rehab court where you pay and pay and pay and pee and pee and pee (but if you're a girl, you can slip a ziplock of pee in your vag & poke it while a disinterested confirmer watches you pee). I know a girl who kept that up while doing lines of coke for years while on probation.
ReplyDeleteToday a mechanic told me about a '73 Chebby p/u a customer dropped off with over $4,000 of new parts from Summit Racing.
ReplyDeleteThe mechanic told me he had just finished on a '83 Chebby with over $15,000 in new parts. He also told me that him and the mechs he knows nearly only work on old vehicles. Let the other guys deal with insurance work for newer cars. One mech told me the new Ford Explorer is the worst vehicle he's worked on in over forty years of wrenching.
My '89 4x4 is in all this next week for a new front axle and all the trimmings which had been deferred.
I've gotten unsolicited offers to sell. There have been notes with a phone number left on the windshield. Nearly everywhere I go there is at least one person who asks if I will sell. I reply that it is always for sale. I figure $15,000 is low. It is completely stock, low miles and all the brush rash you'd expect for being ridden hard off road. One guy commented that since it is all metal body, it is easy to repair.
I'm lmao. I think it's more about not having your vehicle tracked, hacked, or a Michael Hastings job done. I swear, it's like there is no trust anymore. amirite?
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