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      08-25-2019, 02:02 PM   #16
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Originally Posted by JamesNoBrakes View Post
Given our refusal to actually crack down on distracted driving by mandating phone companies turn them off above 5mph or something similar, autonomous driving can't come fast enough. I like driving as much as the next guy on this site, but it's becoming more dangerous for everyone and we refuse to "give up any rights", such as the right to text and check facebook while driving. This isn't a generational thing, I see drivers of all ages doing it every day.
The companies behind autonomous are Big Data, so they'll never allow a mandate to disallow use of phones while driving, nor self police it. They love to track you where ever you go. The Government would just love to implement autonomous driving so you have to log your trip and then you can be constantly tracked and controlled. Kiss your privacy goodbye (even more than it is already gone).
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A manual transmission can be set to "comfort", "sport", and "track" modes simply by the technique and speed at which you shift it; it doesn't need "modes", modes are for manumatics that try to behave like a real 3-pedal manual transmission. If you can money-shift it, it's a manual transmission. "Yeah, but NO ONE puts an automatic trans shift knob on a manual transmission."
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