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I'm afraid a lot of the tech is either necessary by law or necessary to get a decent safety rating these days, so you can't make the simple cars from yesteryear
by tobyhinloopen 2y ago
I'm afraid a lot of the tech is either necessary by law or necessary to get a decent safety rating these days, so you can't make the simple cars from yesteryear.
Now, screens aren't required by law or safety ratings, but there's no getting around having a lot of software in there, and thus a screen to configure all that stuff.
- pitkali 2y agoSure, but a screen, even a touchscreen, is not mutually exclusive with buttons. My Toyota has both, and after setting up the navigation, I can go the whole way and do everything without touching the screen.
- jemmyw 2y agoReversing cameras are required by law and they need a screen.
- ZeroGravitas 2y agoAnd are required by law because people with big SUVs kept running over their own children when backing out of driveways.
- jasonjayr 2y ago"Regulations are written in blood"
- tobyhinloopen 2y agoOh, you're right!
- test1235 2y agoFor new cars in the US (they're not required at all here in UK)
- Gare 2y agoEU requires them too
- alexanderchr 2y agoBackup sensor suffices, unfortunately.
- pbhjpbhj 2y agoShould front facing cameras be required by law (in USA) too? The bonnet height of USA vehicles appears to be adult shoulder height. If you're 5ft/150cm tall or under they're lethal.
- Reubachi 2y agoI have a 22 Miata with all options, which is about shortest hood you can get in the us. The vehicle HAS A front facing camera, it takes up a huge portion of the front windscreen. There's no way to see an image from the front camera. Is it there to....To tell me if i'm...about to crash? it has no automatic cruise or anything. Absolutely puzzling. Another gripe about this car; "car play" works about half the time. Maybe. 20 percent of the other half, whole display freezes until I restart the car. Mazda can't figure it out and what am I gonna do, lemon it? mye 15 year old other mazda hatchback connects to bluetooth instantly as soon as i turn the car on and begins to play music.
- vtbassmatt 2y agoI have a ‘21 Miata with the same gripes. The CarPlay situation got slightly better with an OS upgrade last year – now it only crashes about 10% of the time, and 75% of those recover on their own without needing a power-cycle. The lack of adaptive cruise is baffling. We test drove a ‘15 CX-something-or-other in 2014 and it had the ability to brake automatically (dealer was very interested in demoing this feature). I assume it also had adaptive cruise, so it’s wild that a 6 years newer sports car wouldn’t have that feature.
- Reubachi 2y agoMind boggling. I've had the same OS update applied, reflashed, etc. Still the same an I stopped chasing it :( When it comes to mazda it's hard to understand why they do the things they do. We can only be happy they haven't turned miata into a crossover yet. Great car!
- maxerickson 2y agoProbably. Could have two classes for forward visibility, one that didn't and one that did. I wouldn't make the camera a free for all though, it makes sense for pretty good direct visibility to be a design priority (so the camera would be required on cars that had okay but not great forward visibility and it wouldn't be allowed to build anything else).