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Not saying that it doesn't belong here, but double posting is not forbidden. So you shouldn't be afraid to double post when you have a good reason for it.Anyone hear about this? I'd post it in the Genesis thread but I don't wanna double-post.
The Magma GT Mid-Engine Supercar Could Be ‘The Future of Genesis’
Not only does Genesis want a "Magma" supercar, but it intends to take one racing.
I'm one of the few people who doesn't mind the majority of features being on a touch screen (providing the software is good) and have rarely had issues with it in my own car*, but the regulations around cars requiring so many ADAS systems could definitely do with being revised. I've only ever had them be a hindrance. Again, in my own car they're not really an issue but a more modern one I had as a courtesy car recently was a nightmare to drive until they were switched off (every single time you started the car...).Euro NCAP wants to see less intrusive ADAS systems and more physical buttons in cars
Euro NCAP crash tests will make sure your car has enough buttons and its ADAS isn't annoying! | Autocar
NCAP doubles down on real-world car safety in response to consumer criticism of "intrusive" ADASwww.autocar.co.uk
Probably a good move. I personally find it astonishing that the SAE has not pushed harder against regulators for ignoring human factors and mandating various safety systems, or not outlining how these safety systems should operate. Ignoring human factors in general. For example, automatic headlights combined with bright DRLs and permalit gauge clusters. How the hell is somebody supposed to know that their headlights are accidentally off if the DRLs are bright enough to light the road and the gauges are all legible? Nobody knows what that tiny green symbol on the dash means, and on modern screens it's so small you can't see it in the graphical noise anyway. On my 2005 Rav4 there are three layers of warning that my headlights aren't on - the road isn't lit at all, my gauges are completely black, and the tiny green symbol is not lit either. In new cars, there is barely a single layer of warning. I don't understand how the SAE has allowed this to happen, and this type of thing has happened to multiple systems in cars. Most of these new technologies, combined with universally poor training in America, has produced a plague of bad drivers.Euro NCAP wants to see less intrusive ADAS systems and more physical buttons in cars
Euro NCAP crash tests will make sure your car has enough buttons and its ADAS isn't annoying! | Autocar
NCAP doubles down on real-world car safety in response to consumer criticism of "intrusive" ADAS
Seems like odd timing. It's not like the US hasn't had access to Kei cars previously had they wanted them. GM made and sold a variation of the Suzuki Carry for decades as the Bedford Rascal in Europe alongside Chevy, Daewoo and Holden variations in South American, Asian and Austrailan markets.
Well let's separate two different timings - the administration's announcement timing, and the economic timing. As for the former, I'm not sure we can judge that at all because there's very little rhyme or reason to the daily function of this administration.
FTFY. Tokyo has a far more difficult mass transit problem to solve than a typical American city, and at equivalent scale, and they've mastered it. We even mastered it (to a degree) for our particularly urban/suburban development patterns before General Motors and their corporate partners started literally buying transit agencies throughout the country just to shut them down.
I get the origins but I simply don't believe it can be done effectively throughout the Midwest. There are some short routes that work within the urban core of a few cities but by and large the downtowns of the cities in this region simply aren't big and healthy enough yet to support it, and nowhere even close enough to justify people getting rid of their cars.
I won't argue that the urban fabric of the post-industrial, patchily-occupied midwest is challenging from many perspectives. Post-1950 and especially post-Raegan scorched earth corporate greed + the incentives/outcomes from the largest publicly funded project in US history got us here. Municipalities, in the mid-west especially, have faced the flight of their tax base and aging infrastructure and basically no good options...basically the only money that comes in for a lot of suburbia (throughout the country) is impact fees for new development which continues the cycle of relentless sprawl, a reinforcing spiral where the primary source of revenue results in the primary source of revenue drain (IE maintenance) in the future...a development Ponzi scheme where the only easy way to solve the right-now problem is to create an even bigger later problem. My argument is that it didn't have to be this way.
It's not, it's just him being a moron per usual. He wants them sold here, but under the stipulation that they are built here (that's the catch; so he can boast he got more manufacturing factories brought to the US & more affordable cars, even though that's a "hoax" or something).
They struggle to sell properly small cars over here, these days, where they actually make sense. In the states where theres a general ingrained, unjustified perception that small cars are unsafe or ‘not fast enough to safely join the freeway’ or whatever I just can’t see them selling kei-sized cars to any degree that makes it worthwhile your president talking about it, especially one who takes so much from the oil lobbyists.
I'm telling you the angle is golf carts for the poors, a market that is only being served by used cars right now. Just because he takes money from oil lobbyists doesn't mean he can't take money from other lobbyists.
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This is what I was thinking but couldn't admit it out loud without being banished to The Villages.
