I agree with Sajeev’s three reasons. Mandated safety equipment of all kinds has made new cars less affordable for many people which tends to keep more older and less-safe cars on the road for longer.
I suspect that is was also for testing purposes before the mandate was implemented. Who better to test the safety systems on than 50,000+ consumer operated vehicles. Toyota probably collected way more data on consumer operated vehicles than on their test tracks and engineering platforms. This way, they can claim to have worked out more “bugs” than competitors vehicles before the mandate is implemented.
My main gripe is the failure to distinguish safety features which only protect me (seat belts, air bags) and safety features which protect other drivers (ABS, lane departure).
The Chevy airbag defect affected close to five million vehicles including the 2014-2017 Chevy Silverado 1500 and the Silverado HD.
A while ago, Jalopnik readers advised me to thin my herd of junkers. When I didn’t heed that advice, it bit me in the ass, leaving me stranded. Now I’m finally doing it: I’m selling two of my cars. But first, I have to do a couple of quick fixes. Here’s how I did the clutch master cylinder on the world’s most unreliable Honda.
I have a basic pass/fail test for safety systems. If they enable me to do what I want better than I can do it myself, they pass. If they insist on doing something I don’t want to do, they fail. ABS passes because it enables me to brake at the limit of adhesion. ESC passes because it will save my ass if I overcook a corner. I paid $2,000 for the navigation system on my 2008 Infiniti because it included a backup camera with the projected path superimposed on the screen. I have yet to experience blind spot warning but would expect it not to alert unless there was a vehicle truly in the blind spot rather than in the second lane over or a car length behind me. (I’d prefer cameras with graphics to show me exactly where the other vehicle is. Then, I could make an informed decision.)
Greetings GTI S Brother! I made the exact same purchase for the exact same reasons. I was telling my brother my reasoning just the other day. I wanted the LED headlights but didn’t want to tolerate the other garbage that came with the SE package. I’m happier with less.
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“I will say that while driving a winding 2 lane road on a wet rainy night I would hope that even Ayrton Senna would not pass another vehicle that was doing the speed limit and would follow speed limit and advisory speed signs. That is because I or another driver might be coming the other way and even a near miss would spoil both our days.
A year earlier, the company recalled nearly 46,000 of certain 2014 and 2015 Electra Glide, Street Glide, Ultra Limited, Road Glide and Road King bikes. There were 27 crashes, and four minor injuries, associated with that clutch problem, according to news reports then.
Hope this software fix takes care of it. Sure beats the heck out of burning Ford trucks and death wobbling Ram trucks, though.
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