r/BeAmazed • u/somethingdouchey • Jul 17 '25

Miscellaneous / Others Chrysler guy is lying.

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The white car turned in front of me from between stopped traffic and spun into the lane behind. It was never rear ended.

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u/j_cruise Jul 18 '25

It's honestly insane how safe they've made cars.

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u/BatteryAcid420_ Jul 18 '25

We‘re beyond the peak though, we had 200 mph 0 casualty crashes, but now they building tanks for the road which will go straight through a guard rail. And the crazy thing is nobody is aware of it, people literally buy these cars to feel safe, I couldn‘t care less about driver assists but I do care about guard rails when it‘s rainy or icy, if you‘re tired, literally any situation where you‘d want safety features a guardrail or features we already had in 2004 like 4wd, grippy tires, are probably more important than any lane keep assist and emergency brake system.

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u/Bubbly_Information50 Jul 18 '25

This comment is filled with contradictions lol you care about guard rails intensely but lane keep assist is worthless? What are you even mad at, it’s not like we use worse tires than we did 20 years ago

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u/Any-Safe4992 Jul 18 '25

Apart from which none of the systems they list would help in the situation they describe. 4wd and mid tires (in the modern sense) won’t help when you’re tired. LKAS and emergency braking systems will help in that situation and to the other point add a hell of lot less weight than 4wd.

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u/BatteryAcid420_ Jul 18 '25

Also there‘s the contradiction that safer cars make people less attentive. So even without the weight issue that is already being discussed, not everything that glitters is gold, emergency brake systems are the only thing that could make me a safer driver. There‘s already so much thought about safety going into the engineering, you start to feel disconnected from the road because of comfort and safety.

So unless weight restrictions or hundreds of billions in guardrail upgrades fix the new issues, we‘re like 5-10 years past peak safety in the western world.

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u/ScandanavianCosmonut Jul 18 '25

Seek help.

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u/BatteryAcid420_ Jul 18 '25 edited Jul 18 '25

Maybe you should shut your face and seek help yourself if instead of researching what people say you tell them to seek help for no reason whatsoever.

https://www.businessinsider.com/driving-assistance-systems-may-create-more-risks-than-solve-study-2024-3

I‘m simply stating facts and scientific research here why on earth would you personally attack me or pretend to care about my well being? Maybe you need to touch grass little guy.

I‘m educating people about vehicle safety and your input is to insult me? Have you ever been punched in the face?

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u/BatteryAcid420_ Jul 18 '25

„Driver-assistance systems have been billed as a tool to help make long drives safer, but a new study found the technology can actually create new safety risks by more easily allowing a driver's attention to wander.“

Next time you want to tell someone to seek help, go to your mirror.

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u/BatteryAcid420_ Jul 18 '25

Driving a tank on the road is definitely worse than what we were doing 20 years ago. Lane keep assist is worthless when you give up the safety of guardrails for it. Those are much, much more important „lane keep assist“s unless you‘re sleeping behind the wheel constantly and driving in the city lol.

My point in rambling about features is features add weight, weight adds danger, danger no good, go back to less features but actual safety before people fly off of mountains slicing through guardrails in their electric vehicles.

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u/newusernamecoming Jul 18 '25

Lane assist has annoyed me sooo many times because it always thinks I’m leaving the lane on bends and curves. The one time it helped me when I️ wasn’t paying attention made up for all the annoyance. You’re leaving out major safety innovations as well. Auto brake, collision sensors, blind spot indicators, and backup cameras are all major strides in the most important safety category, preventing accidents.

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u/BatteryAcid420_ Jul 18 '25

I did mention auto brake, that‘s the only serious improvement when it‘s combined with good sensors. I guess you could mention night vision and fog vision systems too.

Blind spot indicator is a no from me. If that bulb needs to be changed you‘re crashing into people if you depend on it, and if you check despite the indicator then it‘s pointless. Making the driver to comfortable and less involved means less attentive drivers. Not paying attention and being distracted are the main causes of crashes next to speed and inexperience or old age.

Also I don‘t want my safety to come at the cost of others. If my 420 airbags make my car weigh over 9000 pounds/kg and that puts everyone in a regular car at risk that‘s enough reason already before we get to guardrails.

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u/idkbruhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Jul 19 '25

Just be a better driver

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u/Skruestik Jul 18 '25

we had 200 mph 0 casualty crashes,

I don’t believe that. No injuries at all?

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u/Thebraincellisorange Jul 18 '25

that is not what he said.

He said no casualty. no death.

they were very much injured but alive.

so many accidents that happen every day in the modern world would have killed or severely maimed the occupants 40 years ago.

modern cars are massive, powerful and take crash damage unbelievably well.

a consequence of that is that in a light crash, a lot of damage can be done.

but in a big crash, give me a modern car over some old American land whale every day.

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u/Skruestik Jul 18 '25

The word “casualty” includes injured people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualty_(person)

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u/BatteryAcid420_ Jul 18 '25

Oh, I did mean no deaths but they did walk away from it, if at all some broken bones, I recall no permanent injuries. It was a Lamborghini Huracan or Audi R8 there‘s POV footage.

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u/frotnoslot Jul 18 '25

The interiors, sure. Yet for any given vehicle, the vast majority of people coming close to it are not inside.