Lexus EV conspiracy theories

The only thing I've seen a car disallow while in motion, that you might want to actually do then, is put addresses into the navigation. This takes far more concentration and attention away from the road than the activities on your list.

Many jurisdictions have no texting laws. Without lock outs while the car is in motion for some features, those features may end up being banned.

A few people remain functional enough while over alcohol blood limits to safely drive. We should get rid of those DUI laws for to not hinder them. They are adults, and can make their own decisions.

We do, and I've seen at least one. They share a lot of styling, looks like they have the same headlights, so I lump them with Volvo.

It was available up through 2020. All I know about it was that it was a truly inefficient EV. Its combine EPA rating was a little better than Ford's Lightning, but you got over 40 miles more range, 4WD, and a big nice person truck with the Lightning. The UX300e looks like an upgrade over the e6.

Their little trucks were once popular, and GM rebadged one or two of the cars to cover their lack there. The US was never a big market for them, so they just faded away. Heard good things about their midsize sedan that was available at the end.

Mitsubishi nearly went the same way. They were saved by the Mirage until the new Outlander, with PHEV, arrived. Which they had been delaying because their sales are better elsewhere.

It's just cap and trade that has been used other emissions at power plants and other industries. That has helped. Maybe not as well as stricter regulations, but those elicit a harder fight from industry to keep them from passing.

At one time, virtually every police cruiser and taxi in the US was a Crown Vic.

The industry and observers was expecting the foreign and domestic distinction for cars to be done away with the last time CAFE was revamped. Didn't happen. There was probably other fall out, but I know it changed GM's plans on taking the Spark EV nationwide. If couldn't help GM's car CAFE, the cost of roll out couldn't be justified. It might have sped up the Bolt program on the other hand.

 

You cannot operate the navigation while the car is in motion. I'll be damned if somebody's going to tell me what I can and can not operate

 

Should I hand you a beer?

 

I used to wonder if driving with a brown paper bag in one hand was mandatory in Texas. I no longer wonder.

Bob Wilson

 

Do you use the radio in your car?

 

Degrees of distraction is a thing.

The last three cars I've owned all had radio controls on the steering wheel. Never seen that for navigation. Some cars have voice control. I can't say how prevalent that is or even if if mine do. Don't really care on speaking.

The car makers have valid concerns for not allowing drivers to use nav by the screen. If that's your hill, you'll die on it. Name a brand that doesn't do this.

If pulling over, or using alternative controls is too much of a bother, then get an aftermarket nav unit, or use your phone like everybody else.

 

I think you're dangerous using your radio while driving because it's a distraction. And you can't hear sirens or alarms outside of your car because of your radio. I think your radio is more dangerous than my navigation. I don't think you should be allowed to operate or listen to your radio while you drive

 

At least that's illegal in Texas. Mississippi? You don't even have to have it in a brown bag. Seems I recall driving through what looked like one of their several coffee kiosks .... only they were serving margaritas - not coffee. Nice.

When we had our model X - all you would have to do is say, "play Frank Sinatra" or "Alice in chains" - or Beethoven, or a genre like blues or jazz & it would play it. No fiddling with the dial necessary.
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You think it's more dangerous.

Now, how about citing some research to prove what you think is more dangerous actually is.

I'll start.
"...taking your eyes off the road for more than two seconds doubles your risk of a crash.."
https://exchange.aaa.com/safety/distracted-driving/the-risks-of-distracted-driving/

"The longest task interaction times were associated with navigation, which took an average of approximately 40 seconds to complete." The radio use in the study took about half as long.
" Of the four task types evaluated, audio entertainment and calling and dialing were the easiest to perform and they did not significantly differ in overall demand. Text messaging was significantly more demanding than audio entertainment and calling and dialing. The navigation task type was significantly more demanding than any of the other task types that were evaluated."
https://aaafoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/VisualandCognitive.pdf

So maybe the automakers are taking this study and others into consideration when they lock out features while the car is in motion. Then they might be considering that you, the driver, are willing to live with the consequences of your using such features while driving, but 20% of distracted driving fatalities are people that were outside of the car.
Distracted Driving | Transportation Safety | Injury Center | CDC

Now, they do treat us as adults in not disabling all features not necessary to driving, or by blocking cell phones in the cabin.

 

our cars are 5 years old or more. In other words not the latest and greatest generation. They both can find an address by simply saying "navigate to" (one car) or "find address" (other car) with audible warnings as your turn approaches. Sure beats 3 decades ago when you might see someone with a map spread over their steering wheel - blocking part of the windshield as they drove down the road - looking at it, & all the approaching street names.
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This block user feature is my fav

 

My approach:

• Ignore user - like turning up squelch on a CB radio
• Wait 30 days to silently review to see if they post more content than noise.
• Wait 90 days to sample their posts.
• Annual review of the noise posters.

Some noise posters are ‘fed’ by critical response posts. But ‘ignore user’ keeps you from feeding the Troll. Of course sometimes Trolls can be the butt of a humorous reply … too dense to realize it.

Bob Wilson