Funny how when you have a dashboard with 3 LCD screens at full blast brightness you cant see anything😂 its almost like you walked outside at night after being in a bright room 🤔🤷♂
I work in car rental and it blows my mind how many grown adults getting into rentals can’t even figure out how to put the vehicle in gear. Then we just send them out onto the road! Terrifying.
@@Mayank_Maximum wouldn’t be surprised!!! It’s unbelievable how “ behind “ people are. The people we all drive next to everyday, have no idea how to operate the vehicle they’re in
I even heard that there have been several cases of people attempting to steal manuals and then leaving them because they don't know how to drive manual.
The part that scares me the most about all these safety features? I know people who think that having all of these “safety” features means that they don’t have to pay as much attention to the road as they used to. Big truck/SUV, big ass tablet replacing all the knobs, poor visibility because of how high you sit up, and the over confidence these cars offer have turned your average inexperienced or dumb driver into 6 ton death missiles on the road.
@@ondralavicka3455design of US-spec mirrors are also a huge problem. All around the world people would get aspherical mirrors so that there is no blind spot while changing lanes. US-spec however, is all flat.
@@M3Froggy that's absolutely retarded and something I haven't thought about, given the fact that I don't live in North america. Although it is something I complained about, as a friend of mine has a 2nd gen Grand Cherokee and you can't see out of that. The blind spot is about two three cars in the lane next to me. TBF even the 2nd gen fabia (think VW golf) has a blind spot, about one car and it's in the next lane over. When a car leaves the mirror in the lane next to me, it enters my peripheral vision.
American Manufacturers : "BIGgeRr MeANs SaFeR!!!!" Yet a small 90s pickup truck from a Japanese company called Toyota is gonna protect you from everything you throw at it and still run a million miles.
Nah that Toyotas turning into a beer can compared to a new truck it's math man a 2800 lb truck WILL be destroyed when it meets a vehicle bigger than it
@@redlight3932 The new trucks are made with cost cutting. They don't have box steel frames and weighting doesn't mean its strong. The Interiors are all cost cutting plastic. And also watch the Top Gear episode on the hilux they tried to destroy. I would want to see a new truck going through that treatment and see if it runs let alone survive.
well the CAFE standards are what resulted in the giant truck trend to start with. In fact, because of this, and people generally wanting larger vehicles, the demand for full size sedans dropped off significantly. We need to bring back the land yachts, they are the safest option with decent fuel economy.
I only know this for VWs, but on their cars you can hold the button and the car will apply all brakes possible. Meaning that the ABS-Pump will apply all four wheel brakes and the Electronic Parking brakes will also be applied. This technically means, that they're more redundant than a standard E-Brake. That being said, I'm definitely still in favor of standard E-Brakes!
@@janniss6401 As an owner of 2 VW Passats (one with stupid button brake and one with regular one) I can only attest to the shitty ebrakes constantly breaking or having random minor malfunctions while also being extremely hard to properly fix once they do actually break
the reason we have ebrakes is for Auto Hold which is used in traffic where it automatically engages the handbrake when you stop. this alleviates you from the stress of keeping your foot on the brake,simples press on the accelerator and youre off again.
A higher center of gravity is less stable. Idk why people can't understand that. Also i hate how tall average cars have gotten. Makes it much harder for me to see anything in a normal sedan.
Had the Lorry I was driving do that on me for a car that had entered the slip road to leave the motorway, I always turn this stuff unless I'm feeling really tired.
@@gravemind6536 I went to test drive the '16 Civic when it first came out. Sales Rep came with me for some reason. It nearly threw me to the wolves as I entered the highway (needed due to dealer location, bad road design) which was 55 mph zone with traffic doing 65 coming from behind me on a blindish for them peak. The car SLAMMED the brakes. The auto system saw a shadow. Nearly got creamed in the back. It wouldn't respond to any attempts at manual control for a good heart attack period before I finally got it to let me speed up (there was no shoulder anyways). Sales Rep spent the rest of the rest drive explaining how that was totally fine and not a problem. I walked. After it became clear I wasn't staying another rep I had been talking to (I had interviewed at that location not long prior) told me that it happens like every week in the evening with the newer safety system cars.
I wonder what the 'rest of the story' is. I have the same feature on my Honda Pilot - and if you are steering out of the lane your control input overrides the lane keeping input. I get a slight jerk (the same as I would get if I were straying out of the lane) but it isn't enough to override your steering. If lane keeping assist were that aggressive then it would be impossible to make a lane change without turning your turn signals on first. In fact, per the manual what the author of the video claims is pretty much impossible. The system will not activate under a list of conditions. One of them is: "The vehicle is not accelerating or braking, and the steering wheel is not being turned."
I had a rental Kia Soul that tried to turn me into a Jersey Barrier. It did not recognize the orange lane markings in a construction zone and attempted to warn me I was leaving the lane. There was not much space left over.
@@andrewj9064 He also didn't research the brake button. Those make hill hold assist possible. No normal person uses the handbrake as an emergency brake either.
@@internetfrnd6496 Creating a problem and then selling a solution is a classic indeed. Can't do a hill-start with a stupid electronic hand brake? Well then you will sure like relying on our broken and slow hill-start assist system!!! Good Lord...
@@internetfrnd6496 Apple ever since the start the whole plan was make thing take then make then for removed thing add more thing remove thing fix gone thing to then make more thing
I hate the idea of the handbrake going away. However, I admit it is pretty nice on my minivan. If I forget to set it, or put the vehicle in park when I shut it down, the car puts itself into park and sets the brake on its own. That's pretty cool. I do miss the handle, but I've yet to drive a minivan with a parking brake handle. They've all had the extra pedal.
What a lot of people don't talk about in terms of safety in a vehicle is honestly Interior layout. While not really a safety "Feature", it's certainly a safety hazard when most of your vehicle's controls and accessories are operated through a touch screen now, some of which requires going through layers of windows and tabs just to reach specific features just to toggle on or off, which is keeping your eyes off the road for a dangerous amount of time, especially if the screen stretches over past the middle of the dash.
absolutely! In my previous car, with driving experience I had memorised every basic function and it's buttons. There was not a need to take my eyes off the road even for a second. Be it climate controls, radio, bluetooth. In the new car, half of this is in a touchscreen tablet and rest are in very sleek buttons which cannot be memorised. You can't even differentiate b/w them if you're running your finger across them without looking... useless.
There's a difference between simplicity and minimalism. Burying everything in a single touchscreen is minimalist, not simple. Minimalism is when you reduce the amount of tools needed to do a job, while simplicity is where you reduce the number of _steps._ Having one multi-purpose tool in the form a screen means you have to take multiple steps in order to reconfigure that tool to do the job. It adds steps, which destroys simplicity.
This is why I love Mazda. Physical tactile buttons for most features you'd need while driving. The infotainment screen is high on the dashboard where you can see it without taking yours eyes off the road, while the infotainment controls are a tactile dial on the center console that you don't have to look at to operate.
true, idk why the hell manufacturers decided to put everything in a tablet instead of keeping physical dials. in my car, it has a touch screen where i can control to AC but i also have physical buttons so i never actually have to take my eyes off the road
When I take my 911 out on the weekends for dinner or something, nothing is more anxiety-inducing than a teenager in a large SUV that's in your vicinity. The worst part of it all is that even when I'm driving a fairly decently sized sedan, such as my brother's E-Class, you're still pretty much a speck compared to them. I know both of these vehicles aren’t very tall, but they’re not exactly quiet either. It’s just all-around concerning, so thank you, café regulations, I guess.
The amount of times I've been nearly run off the road in my 5 series (pretty large station wagon) by one of those jacked up yank tanks is insane. I had someone in a lifted Silverado come feet within running onto my hood as I was executing a legal protected arrow u-turn. He didn't hit the brakes until I honked my horn
I wanna point out that carmakers still add them mainly because if you don't have them, then the implication in the average person's mind is that the car is less safe, and it's nearly impossible to market something that is dangerous.
@@Lordofthedawgs I worked in auto shops for 4 years before getting into the gun industry, and you would not believe the amount of things that go wrong with modern cars for absolutely no reason. When I worked at dealership shops, I spent most of my time doing relearns on the various electronic systems because they just shit themselves for no apparent reason. Not a single mechanic I know drives a car made newer than 2010. Most settle on something from the late 90s because there's a pretty strong consensus that car technology made the most sense about that time. ABS, power steering, CD players, AWD, things like that
These are some of the reasons I bought a 2020 WRX. No auto steer/brake or warnings, manual parking brake, manual trans, and also a key instead of a stupid fob. Its nice to be the only “driver” of the car.
The problem is that people trust what should not be trusted, like computers, an comercial airplane have 4 redundant eletronic sistems in case of failure and an extra system in case all 4 fail but people trust their lives in a single eletronic system on a car.
@@C0lon0And its only getting worse. I read an article somewhere that the 2025 Camry had steer by wire, as in no physical connection between the steering wheel and tires. So what happens with lane keep assist? Can it completely overrule your input when your trying to miss that ladder in the road? Talk about scary!
@@bn880 This is true, mostly standard fair since the late 90's and stability control being standard fair past 2011. My snow vehicle this past winter was a rusty 1979 Jeep Wagoneer, total tank in the snow, and I could stop without my brakes being released by a computer.
"but bro... big car means freedom, why cant i drive my overconsuming pedestrian killing machine, you are 100% attenting against my freedom REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"
"It can haul and tow so much, you are just mad because you can't afford it. I can tow a yacht." Proceeds to never tow or haul anything to the day he sells it, can't even fit a plywood board in bed because the bed is too short and drives 10lb of groceries once a week.
Oh wow a man who believes in freedom. Can you give me a protected bike lane so I can have the freedom to bike to and from work everyday to save on gas?
I live in India and Ford has re-entered the market here, so I was in a parking lot and I saw a new Ford pickup IRL, that was the first time I felt true fear seeing a car, like I knew how big those cars are but never got an IRL scale to truly understand it
Something I find funny about hand brakes is so many people refuse to use them because "what if they fail", the only times I've seen handbrakes fail is when the hinges are so rusted from only being used once a year during an MOT test that they either no longer move at all, or get stuck in the open position so now it's just on permanently. So if you never use your parking brake ever it will probably fail on you if you ever have to use it as an emergency brake. And yes I do know a parking brake can fail when used as intended, but people are just too afraid of the what if scenario. The odds of your car getting hit while parked are much higher than the parking brake failing, doesn't mean you're never going to park anywhere other than a highly secure private garage
Funny you should mention that I moved my Grandmas car for her once and she was suprised I put the parking brake on its one of the cable ones where you pull the lever Mercedes C class she said she never puts it on and I told she should because its very common for an automatic to fail for parking brakes being below efficency requirements on MOT tests because of lack of use I checked and her car had failed for it once as do many autos. Even if I had an automatic though I find the way it rocks when in park too unsettling so I would always use the parking brake anyway.
@@frankdeboer1347 I'm not even talking purely electronic parking brakes, whenever I get in a customer car that doesn't have one that automatically engages when you park your car there's a 99% chance the parking brake isn't on. Doesn't matter if it's a lever, a pedal or a button most people just don't use it when it doesn't automatically engage
I knew some modern cars beep when you drive over the line, but cars rejecting your input and just going where they think you should go is fucking dystopian
Those systems are meant for bad drivers who aren't paying attention. If you are alert and you fight it, it gives up and lets you drive (kinda like hitting the brake on cruise control) I'm an engineer and I adore automation, but I don't know why they even attempt that with the possible liability.
One that needs to be mentioned is the "please carjack me" feature where putting the car in park automatically unlocks the doors. You park your car in a bit of a sketchy area to check google maps on your phone? Now all your doors are unlocked. I sure hope you remembered to relock them. There was a news story where some government agents like FBI or something were all killed because this happened. They were in a bulletproof SUV and they got stopped on the road by some gang people. They made the mistake of putting the vehicle in park, the criminals were able to open the now unlocked doors, and all of the occupants of the vehicle died.
Can't stand lame assist that takes control of the car. Same with collision avoidance assistance. Was in a rental car that had those once. Guy was at a stop sign and obviously couldn't see the intersection so started slow pulling up so they could see. Collision Avoidance thought he was going to pull out apparently, so jerked us into the oncoming traffic lane where there was a car very close. Thankfully I was able to jerk the car back into my lane before getting into an accident but it was extremely close. Turned the assistants off immediately and now make sure any car I drive that has them I disable.
I made sure when getting my current car to get it for the things it didn't have, it has a handbrake, 6 speed manual gearbox, 4 cyclinder engine with timing chain rather than these little 3 cyclinders with wet belts etc I made sure it had no assists of any kind besides standard ABS and ESP. 2016 Toyota Auris or Scion IM for you Americans and its been flawlessly reliable and nice peaceful drive no chimes no annoying assist features etc. Only annoyance is having to turn off stop start every time I start the engine, when its 10 years old and out of warranty I plan on doing a simple stage 1 remap and getting the stop start removed in the process though.
They don't even have that much trunk or bed space to begin with. On average those SUVs and pickups can fit less stuff than older sedans and wagons, damn insane.
This is why I like my corolla hatchback. I was able to permanently disable the lane departure warning/assist because it was annoying af. There's no automatic braking warning, instead it beeps at me pretty loudly and disables radio audio so i hear it. The blind spot monitoring works like a charm with the light in my side view mirror and can even detect motorcycles. However there isn't a standard e-brake, it's electronic. But tbh I've never even used the switch because it automatically engages and disengages when I put it in/out of park.
Be careful with disablind stuff like that permenantly it could invalidate your insurance but yeah I get why you would do it I hate that stuff thankfully my hasn't got it Its a 2016 Toyota Auris or Scion IM for Americans. The lorries I drive however all have lane assist AEBS etc and I turn them off every day.
the first car i ever drove was a 2018 Subaru Outback That fucking thing had so many warning chimes and messages that it was almost impossible to pay attention to the road Merging? Lane departure Someone in your blind spot? Let’s make it harder to focus on anything else At a stop sign? the car in front of you moved 0.1 ms ago and you still haven’t taken your foot off the break, time to play some god-awful dog whistle ping that makes your ears bleed All those safety features were distracting as shit, and to this day i refuse to drive a car with so much as lane departure the only ‘modern’ safety feature i tolerate is a back up camera, everything else can shit a dolphin
I drove a pickup a few years and switched back to sports car when I realized I use it to carry myself and a small bag literally 99% of the time (or maybe add my kid and his small bag). That and hearing the poor engine push its fat ass up hills hurt me inside.
This is exactly why I'm keeping my 2016 Jetta until it dies. All of the modern tech (SEL Premium, I get automatically aligning headlights, DRLs, automatic wipers, etc etc) but it doesn't have lane keep assist and all of these intrusive "safety" features. Truly one of the last simple cars.
@@nthgth The headlights are actually extremely good. Something interesting about VWs is that I've never had a bulb burn out on mine. I'm still running the factory ones almost 9 years later. The headlights are all sealed and use actual high quality gears, so I'm pretty confident they won't break. As for the wipers, there's a little 4-position switch on top of the wiper stalk that you can move left or right to adjust the sensitivity (low to high). If you don't want them to wipe at all, you can just move the stalk back to its standby position like in any other car. It's the perfect mix of modern-car smarts and "old-car analog". Manual parking brake, powered steering that you can still feel the road through, etc etc. The sheet metal is THICK too. It's not weak like in Subarus, where you can push the roof in and out. It's solid through and through.
@@cherrypepsi2815One area Volkswagen (especially 2000s-onwards) didn’t skimp was the unibody construction. They’re almost always high strength steel that will save you in the event of a collision
@satsumagt5284 yep. Always surprised by how flimsy and thin the metal is on subarus and other "good" vehicles. You can literally push the roof of a subaru and it'll massively dent and buckle. Not very inspiring.
@@cherrypepsi2815 Oh, the roof skin and visible body panels aren’t that important for unibody structure. I was talking about how these 2000’s-on VWs are so well built in terms of crash safety: There’s even a video of a Polo being crash tested against a Phaeton, in which the Polo actually survives decently well, given that the A pillar was barely bent after the crash. The outer body panels… Oh well, the classic Beetle had THICK ones, yet it did poorly in the medium overlap crash test (offset barrier one, you know). The car in my profile pic, although a game car, it’s real life variant is very likely a tin can on wheels
"Bigger means I'm safer" infuriates me so much because they're basically admitting that they're stealing the odds of survival from other drivers so that instead of everyone having equal odds of survival they can survive and everyone else can die
Electronic parking breaks are so dangerous that they don't work until you stop so if your breaks fail while entering a canyon corner They should include an option saying Pray to God
That's total cap. You can in fact pull the electronic e-brake while driving. It's going to use information from the ABS/ESP module to avoid that the wheels lock up. You just need to pull the lever for multiple seconds. I tried it on my car and It works. If you have a Mercedes long press on the P button, if it's a normal (P) Button just pull and hold for multiple seconds and it will apply it. I've done it out of curiousity on an empty road and it applied the E-brake as long as I pulled on the (P) button. That's what you get when people don't read their owner's manual. If you guys would read it you would know about it. It's mentionned in mine.
@@RaaaphaelThat’s in Mercedes, how many other car manufacturers do you think would include that?, the overwhelming majority don’t do that, all of the cars I’ve driven with electronic parking brakes don’t do that.
@claytonj2024you could even go Jag style and have it really close to the transmission tunnel, alternatively you have something like on the lotus Europa where it's still hand-operated but instead something you pull towards yourself and twist to disengage
@claytonj2024 I would honestly love a 2024 with a column shift and a bench seat up front so 6 people can sit in the sedan. Whose idea was it to get rid of the bench upfront ?
@claytonj2024 the 2001 ford Taurus I had, had the center console with cup holders and storage, but it folded up to turn into the back rest for the middle seat. Best of both worlds, Bring it back ! I think early 2000s Toyota avalons were the same
0:35 - If your car has no traction, it's not because the brakes failed, it's because your tires aren't gripping the surface. Hitting the e-brake would make things worse because you would be bypassing ABS and ESC, so when you do finally get some traction, you'll probably just end up skidding out of control rather than coming to a controlled stop. I do agree though that it is better to have an actual physical e-brake actuation mechanism; Whether it be a lever or pedal doesn't really matter.
80 - 90% of a vehicle's braking force is on the front brakes, making it very easy to overload the front tires while braking. Only about 75% of a vehicle's weight is shifted onto the front tires while braking, so there's a good amount of additional braking that can still be done.
@@joshjlmgproductions3313 stuff like all of this is why I want to add every grip mod I can to my Car so I can nail every shift without any jack or shit
@@joshjlmgproductions3313 What do you mean by additional braking? The tires are *always* the weak points when it comes to traction. You can't make a car stop any faster by pulling the e-brake, you'll just risk locking up your wheels and possibly spin out of control. Best case is you come to s controlled stop but now with a flat spot on your tires from all the skidding.
@@joshjlmgproductions3313 No, you will not be able to apply more braking force to the rear brakes than what the power braking system can do. Pulling the handbrake will not help slow down your car, and will in fact make your car more unstable because it bypasses ABS and ESC and risks locking up the rear wheels. When you jam the brake pedal into the floor, you're getting 100% of the car's braking potential. You're not outsmarting the car designers by pulling the e-brake to try to get some hidden braking power. If you want to stop faster, get better tires.
Fun Fakt: In most EU countries you are able to not only get a regular sized license plate, but also a US sized license plate or a vertical license plate. There are certain criteria for that, but in most cases it's easy. I have seen a lot of (I can only assume) US imported cars that had the design for a US license plate and had EU-style license plates in the shape of US license plates. The reverse is not possible I presume? In the US you cannot get any different forms of license plates, right?
We are standardized so unfortunately we don't but that doesn't mean you have to remove the old plate you can just put the new one over which alot of German car lovers do
Idk, you’d think so but you also need to pay once a year for license plate tabs, and the number of people I see driving with tabs from 3+ years ago is baffiling You can probably go around with no license plate tbh lol this sounds like a bad joke but I can see my neighbors car parked on the street right now with no plate. He’s def had that for longer than a 21 day permit would allow no plate
I hate everything about "smart" systems. If im travelling at a speed that can kill me, i want to have full control in that situation. Everything further than Esp and Abs is nothing for me. Im 22 yo and driving a manual Audi a3 from 2006 and its awesome
And you're right you can't beat an ABS system and you can't brake individual wheels like ESP can. You can see the road ahead and you can check your mirrors and blindspots you don't need AEBS or lane assist they're just annoying.
a main battle tank has better sight lines than some of these large grille trucks in fact, those old peterbilt and mack semis with flat hoods have only marginally worse sight lines that’s how you know it’s a problem. when your sight lines in a passenger car are almost as bad a freaking semi truck
I live in the UK and drive cab over Artic lorries, they have better visibility than a pickup they have a forward blindspot mirror and two nearside blindspot mirrors and one offside blindspot mirror if you do your checks properly you can see a cat sat directly in front of your lorry or on the nearside too you would miss one sat on the offside though but still, the visibility is far better than any pick up.
Lol I was actually a tank crewman in my younger days. In a tank you can roll the hatch open and stick out the top for great visibility. We only closed up if we were shot at, then watch out we're like Karen in her escalade 😂
Who's to blame for the collision with the pedestrian? The human person who is only walking like their species has been doing for hundreds of years? Or the person who just got their brand new 2 ton car, barreling toward the pedestrian who didn't see the car traveling at 60 in a 40 zone?
oh im well aware that bad drivers exist. i was getting off the bus one day and given how the route was i had to cross the street to get to my house. i had to go back and get my book bag because i'd forgot it. i was on the center line when i realized i forgot and the second i took one step after turning around, a red sedan sped past at over 40mph. in a 25mph time of day in a school zone. with a bus with blinking red lights and a stop sign. If i hadn't forgot my bag i would have been nixed from the census that day.
7:07 unfun fact about the Cybertruck: the edges and corners of its stainless steel doors are enough to cut your skin when you open them. The Cybertruck can hurt you even before you step into the vehicle. On the Cybertruck owner's club forums (yes it's real) someone posted a picture of their injury, and it was pretty deep.
@@mrsoisauce9017 a Twitter account spends months likely still to this day waiting for his Truck that broke day one to be fixed an everytime he mentions the lack of Truck he simps the Truck
Lane keep assist systems almost always have a torque limit, if you turn the wheel with enough force it will turn off the lane keep system (It's usually not much force). Systems like what GM has can actually tell the difference between the driver turning the wheel and natural drift of the vehicle and won't interfere if it determines that you're turning the wheel. I'm guess that Honda's system is just very aggressive.
It's not. I drove a Ridgeline as a loaner for 2 weeks. It's a little stronger than the system in my GMC, but still very easy to override. It does have a lane departure mitigation that "shakes" your wheel, though. At least in the 2022 Ridgeline I was borrowing, both systems could be turned off and did not come back on on start up.
When I saw Ryan F9 in that RAM my thinking was "Oh he must've took the engine out for a bit." NOPE. That was with the engine and everything still in. And he managed to fit in there. My god these car manufacturers are insane.
Bu- bu- bu- BUT MY FREEDOM AND HAULING AND TOWING CAPABILITIES, I CAN TOW A YACHT WITH IT, YOU ARE JUST MAD YOU CAN'T AFORD ONE. Proceeds to tow and haul nothing untill the day he sells it, can't fit a plywood board in bed because beds have been getting shorter than ever and only drives 10lb of groceries once a week.
I know one family where the wife had to drive the Nissan sedan instead of the Mecedes SUV since the SUV needed major repairs. She rear ended someone and blamed the car for not having collision mitigation feature as the reason for the accident. These driver assist features might claim to improve safety, but in reality it's making drivers even more complacent. They expect the car will keep them out of trouble despite their bad habits.
Yeah, to get back to your point about pedestrians and "jaywalking"... In 2021, Germany had about, 2562 (statista) pedestrian deaths following car accidents. The U.S.A. had about, 7388 (NHTSA) pedestrian deaths following car accidents. What is important to note here: Germany does not have anywhere near as many Pickup Trucks & SUVs as you do, but we do allow jaywalking everywhere. From this little research I have done (which very well may be wrong...) I conclude that, in most cases, the pedestrians are not the root cause of their own deaths. Great video as always, enjoy your day.
Not to argue, but Germany also has a lot lower population, and therefor a lot fewer cars as well. Per 100000 inhibitants is a better statistic (you can find it on Wikipedia) where the US sits at 12.9, while Germany is at 3.7
Also fair to consider u.s pedestrian infrastructure is lacking and often encourage pedestrians to preform dangerous actions just to get anywhere in a reasonable amount of time. Numerous occasions where I've tried crossing a 5 lane 4-way and the beg button just doesn't work... Had to wait for people to be nice and let me cross
ayo great vid! the change from physical, tactile controls to screens, buttons, and knobs are complaints ive had for a while... mad respect for being a car channel that emphasized the points of: avoiding pedestrian-blaming, and emphasizing the ridiculousness of suvs & light trucks and the insane loopholes and manipulation that has led to the proliferation of those ungodly machines
On my dad’s truck (2015 silverado) the stability control made him crash. There was a dump truck that was not in its lane (the driver was on his phone) so my dad turned partway into the ditch on the side of the road and when he tried to turn it back, the computer locked the steering and he hit a hog that was on the side of the road. If he didn’t replace his brake calipers, he might have gone into the guardrail that was 2 feet away from where the hog landed.
Cybertruck by itself could be in this video 😂 Line assist playing ping pong instead of helping me also And could say traction control can be annoying when trying to unstuck yourself from snow, especially when you can’t disconnect it
I’d argue that chunky a, b, & c pillars on top of high belt ones are the most unsafe features of any car or vehicle. You want to know why? It increases blindspots which conceals entire vehicles and pedestrians which is fatal in some cases. I’d argue that aerodynamic styling doesn’t help much either since the hood slopes down into the abyss and is hard to see how far or close you are to something. Which a ‘66 Ford Galaxie 500 I looked at last spring, the hood was about 6’ long but since it stuck straight out and had somewhat of a blunt shape to it, was easy to see how far or close I was to something when I test drove it. Some people will argue about how older vehicles are dangerous and modern vehicles are safer and so forth, but when you really think about it, it’s all relative. While cars from the late 50’s and through the 60’s didn’t have any safety equipment other than seatbelts which were mandatory in 1966 along with collapsable steering columns in 1967 along with dual circuit braking, more than made up for it in the excellent visibility there was to the outside.
Chunky pillars are for occupant safety and have no regard for those outside the vehicles the worst possible place for your head to hit on a car should be hit by one is the A pillar its pretty much the strongest part of a car its designed to absorb high speed accidents and hold the shape of the cabin. You talk about the blunt shape hood you can see perfectly and I take your point however its a double edged sword landing on that hood would be far more painful than one of the modern sloped hoods with no sharp edges. I miss my first car as the visibility was insane but the car I have no is so much safer for me and others my current car is harder to park as you can't see where either end of the car ends but its easy enough for someone like me in my first car I could to within 1ft of everything easily no sensors or cameras just brilliant visibility.
If the kids are close enough to your vehicle such that you are concerned about the blindspot caused by the hood, you have not been thinking clear enough nor looking at your surroundings so you're aware of what's going on around you.
You should do a bad driving habit video: in Texas, we have crap traffic from people merging slowly on the highway. Then people stop at the middle of a roundabout, or stop before entering when there's no traffic entering, not using turn signals in roundabouts. Finally , there's a long line of traffic on a light intersection. It turns green and everyone is on their phones so about 30 seconds later, if you're down the line you only move up a few meters at most, waiting for the next piece of the line to cross the light when everyone could* have been off the brakes at the same time and you could have already passed the light since the 30 seconds green light actually feels like 3 seconds of movement.
I'm in Texas and you are SO right with that last one especially! I swear, takes 30 seconds from a green light before you, maybe 15 cars back, even starts to move, and light turns red by time 10 get thru. In worse intersections, you could be stuck for 3-4 light cycles just wasting gas and making it hotter.
I will say that those old rubber bumpers from the late 70's going into the 80's weren't really for pedestrians even in period they were stated to protect the car in sub 10mph crashes. There was a lot of people getting hurt in sub 10mph crashes due to whiplash and cars like the pinto having fuel tanks pierced. I know they are ugly but it was a stop gap now the pop up headlight ban on the other hand was just pure BS.
The amount of unnecessary changes automakers are making to their cars is insane, just removing safety features, making their cars bigger, etc. Plus the fact that the government lets these cars on the road is insane, like you said at 13:16 I think they are also picking favorites. Its wild to think that I could be driving in the middle of the day and get blinded by the person's lights behind me and get plowed into with an SUV with a brick wall for a grill and somehow pop up headlights are worse? Its really scary that cars get bigger and less safe at the same time.
big can be much safer when any of the companies actually factor in the issues like put those lane sensors in front of the car along with cameras to scan for walkers an then try its dam hardest to stop you but nah they just give us a huge tablet instead
Government “lets” them? More like the government requires them. EPA and CAFE standards are one of the biggest reasons the auto industry is the way it is. Yes consumers do have a play, but that’s only a piece of puzzle.
Same. This is the stuff of nightmares. One of the scariest motorbike situations I've been in was going downhill, in the dark, in the rain, on a wriggly country road. I was taking it slow, but I had an SUV tailgating me, headlights completely dazzling me and making it harder to see. More than once thought I was going to die - had I needed to swerve or emergency brake for whatever reason (e.g. animal or tree branch), I would have been run over.
I know from experience it's *almost* prohibitively difficult to drift a Camry equipped with a foot-operated parking brake, especially since you have to re-press it _harder_ to disengage it. Lol. It could be easier to access there, but it's possible to design an interior where it's a normal hand brake and it's super easy to access, so that's a fail on whatever designer needed to use the foot-type in order to make their interior work 🤷🏻♂️
Remember: *_A 2020 Cannonball run was almost cancelled due to a Lane Assist System kicking like crazy._* (2539, AKA: The madlads who disguised an Audi S6 as a Ford Taurus Interceptor cop car.)
I lost a lot of respect for my former boss when he said he buys the biggest truck he can so that in a crash he survives but the guy in the smaller car dies
2:26 this is a pretty big thing here in Switzerland when learning how to drive the car legally must have an emergency brake the instructor can use while driving. Of course driving schools will have a break pedal for the instructor but when learning in private with your dad or something your car must have a hand brake
The "lane keep assist couldn't be turned off permanently" thing is mandatory for the NCAP ratings (or their equivalents on your region), sadly. Those ratings don't just measure how safe the cars are during crashes like it used to be, but they also measure the ratings depending on the safety features the car has as standard.
The only reason I see to buy an SUV or Pick up truck is to do things with it. As in hauling around big things and not just using the size of it to make up for my small package like most drivers out here
@@clownavenger0 Yep they went out of fashion completely very popular in the UK too and then in early 10s everyone started shifting to these SUVs because they're cooler to look at and not ugly and they're more comfy luxurious and stylish etc. I think people have completely forgot the purpose of non performance cars and that is that they should function comfortably, efficently and minimal cost. In the UK it was Vauxhall Zafiras, VW Tourans and Ford Galaxies until these bloated monster SUVs came along.
There was that one time I was cruising and just glanced at the navigator for a moment (not that I'm proud of getting distracted). By the time I looked back at the road to comprehend the situation, I was already going below 10 km/h and came to a stop right after, just behind another vehicle at a red light. I drive an old, 20+ year-old Corolla hatchback with only the most basic driver assistance features (ABS, TRC, VSC). The best driver assist You can have _(as of now)_ is Your own skills
Lane keep assist with forced input is my most hated feature. However, with my car, I just get the little vibration on the steering wheel. That I absolutely love. More information is very appreciated. Just don't try to drive for me
Honestly, we should really make the privilege to drive, harder to get. While making public transportation S tier, so people who shouldn't be driving don't have to drive. While making the people who are driving, the best drivers in the world.
@ILovePancakes24 That seriously hurts the chances of competent but lower class people from getting licensed. The current system *when used correctly* works fine. The more exclusive you make the ability to drive the higher the testing cost is. A basic license is around 40$. The test for a cdl (commercial driving license with a much harder test) is around 200.
1: Some cars include a feature that use all brakes to slow the car a quickly as possible with the electronic parking brake. It's also better because with a manual handbrake, you only slow the rear wheels which could make you spin out.
Same. Good ol salt belt north, brake line rusted between my truck's gas tank and frame and pow, blew the line one day! Foot just suddenly sunk to the floor! Thank god for that cable actuated E-brake!
The ultimate conclusion of that “I need a bigger car to survive a wreck” line of logic is to ask them why they settle for driving something that won’t survive a collision with a fully loaded, 2 mile long, 13,000 ton train. After all, don’t they want to survive if the worst case happens? Why aren’t they driving something that will keep them safe from a collision with a train?
I drive a 2002 Toyota Tacoma and I’m glad that it has BASICALLY ZERO electric features. Good old cable operated breaks and accelerator basic headlight and a classic pull style hand break. The most “electronic” thing I have in my truck is my aftermarket radio.
The car I drove in driving school had lane keep assist. I did not like it. I never needed it, yet there were a few roads in the middle of nowhere that did not even have road markings, where the lane keep assist activated and quite aggressivly turned to the left. Luckily, there was never oncomming traffic.
I drive Lorries with the system it doesn't understand that there are loads of circumstances where you have to veer onto the other side of the road for example a rouge tree branch sticking out that could rip your wing mirror off a dip or pothole that you don't want to hit, it also hates it when you use hatched markings to your advantage to go past parked vehicles or just otherwise give yourself breathing room.
I remember a couple of years ago watching your channel dreaming of one day having my own car and now I'm days away from finally getting one, dream come true
Just imagine a car using modern engine technologies but built with 90s tech for the chassis, body and general electronics you’d end up with a normal ass tank of a car that just works
Idk if it's the case for all cars, but iirc handbrakes locks the front 2 wheels only, while an E brake on the floor locks all 4. I hope that there is a car with a handbrake that locks all 4 wheels, because an E brake on the floor next to the regular foot brake would confuse a panicky person moments before impact, & takes longer to lock than a handbrake. And mate, thank you for talking about huge cars, I'm getting real annoyed with people who drive this: The ones who purposely bought a big car because they're scared of getting hit by someone else so they crawl while taking up space on the road causing a long traffic jam The ones who are lazy or don't know how to turn the auto lights off in the day & those that don't turn off high beams (especially pick-up trucks) And people who sprint an extra 100 over the speed limit in RANGER ROVERS, JEEPS, MERCEDES & OTHER SUVs & WAGONS, GIANT TOYATA PICK-UP TRUCKS, BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY... [FORD RANGERS] WITH [H I G H B E A M S O N ! ! !] Edit: I miss Bladed Angel chan/ Mustang chan 🥺 😔
Unexpected fortnine reference out of nowhere and from you? And maurice and anurag uploding today, ferrari’s 2nd win in lemans tf? And also i saw a 30th anniversary hayabusa,3 zx10r and s1000rr in green,good day
You got me with the BC destro sack build lmfao, but I must say I got my first car at a late age and my drivers license a week before it. At 29 the dealer was selling me all these bells and whistles with lane keep, blind spot monit, etc etc. Let me tell you sir, I am so glad the car remembers I turned off lane keep, because it didn't take me longer than 2 days before it drove me insane. It honestly made driving on the highway jarring as it would constantly nudge me on a path leading me out of my lanes.
1) The cause is probably number of forgotten engaged E-Brakes starting fires, the electronic brake can disengage itself, the mechanical can not. 2) The problem is in vagueness of required implementation, if you say to car makers "you need to keep the car between white lanes" do not expect them to go the extra of including anything above like temporary yellow lanes and others, they will do required minimum, the need to have the nice extras for luxury cars. 3) Nobody ever banned pop-up headlights, they just need to pass the tests and the car makers are just like "CBA" while moaning about regulations. Also "Right on red" is far more dangerous then pop-up headlights so you better get rid of that first. 4) Only if the weight is on different classes, this was "true" when most cars were sedans, now you need MRAP to outclass SUV, or Semi.
that's a very stupid cause for the first one, if someone drives without realising they have the e brake on, they shouldn't even be driving in the first place
2:02 it’s because the electronic parking brake can be automatically activated when the car is put into park whereas a manual parking break needs be activated manually. A lot of people are lazy and don’t put their parking brake on all time.
Most of these features are engineered into vehicles BECAUSE human drivers are regressive. Always on the phone, know nothing about the technicalities of their vehicles, and (sorry to say) just more stupid than ever before. Manufacturers and insurance companies see their customers as absolute liabilities now, leading to the modern features that cars now have.
In fact, electronic parking brake will stop you if you hold it up for as long as you wanna brake but it wont if you just click it up. Just as normal handbrake.
Am I the only one that thinks it’s a bad idea to use the hand brake(that isn’t connected to the ABS) instead of the brake (which is connected to the ABS). I don’t know about you but I like to… you know, have grip I am sick and tired of people thinking a literal cable is better than ABS. It also has a high chance of locking the rear wheels which makes you slide. That’s probably why most countries teach new drivers to use the foot brake as it is safer. It’s not an E-brake it’s a park brake no more, no less
It's also extremely unlikely to lose your entire foot brake, because we've had redundant brake design for decades. If you pop a brake line, you'll notice it but you'll still be able to brake with half of your wheels.
Yeah and ABS will work on all 4 wheels... but should something fail... it's nice to have a backup, even if the backup has limited capacity. I sometimes have to drive a truck with tons of weight loaded onto it... but the hydraulic brakes have a leak in the master cylinder, so it only has a brief period of braking before you have to pump the pedal. Luckily, the engine braking on an old manual truck is absolutely insane and has as much stopping power as most cars do... I know because someone brake checked me down to a near stop and I was able to stop the truck with the engine and only used the brakes for the last little bit as the engine began to idle. So for cars that are not yours where you do not know the condition of the car, it is nice to have a hand brake just in case... plus, unlike an e brake pedal (which I hate), a lever can be pulled by hand instead of by foot and also by the passenger if say the driver passes out. Redundancy is nice when there is essentially no cost to it. In general, you should not use the e brake lever other than for parking. But, it is much nicer than a 4th foot pedal (or 3rd pedal in an automatic) which you can see is up and will work should something go horribly wrong in the hydraulic system. People do not maintain their cars, they treat them like disposable appliances and this causes lots of premature failures, thankfully, most of these are the engine or transmission dying rather than the brakes failing or a wheel falling off... though those do happen. But having another redundancy that doubles as a parking brake is amazing. They call it the emergency brake because it should only be used as a last resort when all else fails... frankly, I think in a manual car, the engine braking might be more powerful than the e brake if you drive something with more engine displacement and lower gears than my personal boring car... but manuals are hard to find and I'd rather have a system that is functions differently so that I have a backup... but it's *just* a backup and a parking brake. Also, bold of you to assume everyone has ABS, almost every car I drive that I don't personally own has either faulty ABS which actively screws things up, an old ABS which is not even as good as a human alone, an ABS which has silently failed, or no ABS (I think, it doesn't have an ABS light on but there is no ABS so either the brake master cylinder is that leaky or it never had ABS). Personally, everything I own, vehicle or otherwise is well maintained, but this is not the case for most people. I've seen some pretty scary stuff... and I'm not even a mechanic... those mechanics I talk with... they have some horror stories.
“To the villagers yall keep in your Minecraft basement” Me, who’s currently enslaving an entire village while this video is on in the background: “They’re not in my basement”
The blind spots on a lot of modern pickups and large SUVs are nuts. One of the things I like about my Kia Sportage is how good the visibility is (at least to the front and sides), with a relatively low beltline. Oh, it also allows me to set the lane keep assist to off by default
Ironically, higher beltlines are mandated in order to protect us from big, dangerous SUVs and pickups. But those same high beltlines reduce visibility, making it harder to avoid an impending collision.
Idk much about the lane keep assist besides the one on my '18 outback, but usually lka is disabled on mine. And even if i have it on during long trips, turn signals and driver input overrides it. At most, it only lightly tugs on the steering when i slightly hug the line.
Why I agree on the electronic parking brakes, I will note that they are easier to apply. I've had a handbrake that I applied just enough, so that the car would remain still on neutral, and multiple middle-aged women were not be able to lower the handbrake. Many drivers are not strong enough to operate a handbrake to actually stop a car.
I ran into the parking break issue when getting my license in February. They require a hand break and neither of my parents car had that. The day before we managed to get his coworkers lifted Jeep and I managed to parallel park it first time 🤷🏽♂️. My mom 2009 van has a emergency break as a pedal.
We bought a new rav4 premium and one of the features I can’t get used to is the removal of the parking brake which is replaced with a parking button. I’ve driven a Toyota Camry with a foot emergency brake and it is hard to get used to the new tech
"We need brighter headlights to drive safely at night"
Meanwhile, everyone in front of them: 👨🦯
FACTS
Pickup trucks in my rear view mirrors be like
GM and Ford be like
Flash bang
Funny how when you have a dashboard with 3 LCD screens at full blast brightness you cant see anything😂 its almost like you walked outside at night after being in a bright room 🤔🤷♂
I work in car rental and it blows my mind how many grown adults getting into rentals can’t even figure out how to put the vehicle in gear. Then we just send them out onto the road! Terrifying.
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💀dont tell me they can’t even pedal next
@@Mayank_Maximum wouldn’t be surprised!!! It’s unbelievable how “ behind “ people are. The people we all drive next to everyday, have no idea how to operate the vehicle they’re in
I even heard that there have been several cases of people attempting to steal manuals and then leaving them because they don't know how to drive manual.
@@ThatSpecificIndividual 100%
The part that scares me the most about all these safety features?
I know people who think that having all of these “safety” features means that they don’t have to pay as much attention to the road as they used to.
Big truck/SUV, big ass tablet replacing all the knobs, poor visibility because of how high you sit up, and the over confidence these cars offer have turned your average inexperienced or dumb driver into 6 ton death missiles on the road.
Let Darwin do his job
@@redlight3932 Yeah but can Darwin please not put me in the crossfire
Sitting high isn't the problem, huge hoods are. Proper vans have high positions with great visibility.
@@ondralavicka3455design of US-spec mirrors are also a huge problem. All around the world people would get aspherical mirrors so that there is no blind spot while changing lanes. US-spec however, is all flat.
@@M3Froggy that's absolutely retarded and something I haven't thought about, given the fact that I don't live in North america.
Although it is something I complained about, as a friend of mine has a 2nd gen Grand Cherokee and you can't see out of that. The blind spot is about two three cars in the lane next to me. TBF even the 2nd gen fabia (think VW golf) has a blind spot, about one car and it's in the next lane over. When a car leaves the mirror in the lane next to me, it enters my peripheral vision.
American Manufacturers : "BIGgeRr MeANs SaFeR!!!!"
Yet a small 90s pickup truck from a Japanese company called Toyota is gonna protect you from everything you throw at it and still run a million miles.
Nah that Toyotas turning into a beer can compared to a new truck it's math man a 2800 lb truck WILL be destroyed when it meets a vehicle bigger than it
@@redlight3932 The new trucks are made with cost cutting. They don't have box steel frames and weighting doesn't mean its strong. The Interiors are all cost cutting plastic. And also watch the Top Gear episode on the hilux they tried to destroy. I would want to see a new truck going through that treatment and see if it runs let alone survive.
Ok, but have you considered running away from the bear? @redlight3932
well the CAFE standards are what resulted in the giant truck trend to start with. In fact, because of this, and people generally wanting larger vehicles, the demand for full size sedans dropped off significantly.
We need to bring back the land yachts, they are the safest option with decent fuel economy.
Not really, it just will be safer for everyone else
E-brakes are like the sequel that was supposed to be better but was way worse handbrakes and I hate them
I only know this for VWs, but on their cars you can hold the button and the car will apply all brakes possible. Meaning that the ABS-Pump will apply all four wheel brakes and the Electronic Parking brakes will also be applied. This technically means, that they're more redundant than a standard E-Brake.
That being said, I'm definitely still in favor of standard E-Brakes!
@@janniss6401 As an owner of 2 VW Passats (one with stupid button brake and one with regular one) I can only attest to the shitty ebrakes constantly breaking or having random minor malfunctions while also being extremely hard to properly fix once they do actually break
@@domaxltvwhat is easier to fix, a cable or an complicated eletronic system? What will be more profitable to fix in autorized mechanics?
Electric Boogaloo
the reason we have ebrakes is for Auto Hold which is used in traffic where it automatically engages the handbrake when you stop. this alleviates you from the stress of keeping your foot on the brake,simples press on the accelerator and youre off again.
A higher center of gravity is less stable. Idk why people can't understand that. Also i hate how tall average cars have gotten. Makes it much harder for me to see anything in a normal sedan.
Same here, I hate how tall the cars are these days. Can’t even see two cars ahead in my little Sprinter because there’s a lifted F450 in front of me.
Honestly we need to less relient on Cars and have better Public Transportation
@@maas1208 very much so agree, but in the meantime lets bring the size of vehicles down
Make a car arms race of car needing to get bigger making things worst soem suv are the soze of tanks
The fact that my 3 inch lifted Cherokee is shorter than every new pickup truck at stock height is crazy
The amount of times that my automatic brake has almost wiped me from the planet is crazy
Hope you get that Zo6 soon
Yo love the vids
Ayooo the biggest vette fanboy is here. Hope you get that vette soon.
Had the Lorry I was driving do that on me for a car that had entered the slip road to leave the motorway, I always turn this stuff unless I'm feeling really tired.
@@gravemind6536 I went to test drive the '16 Civic when it first came out. Sales Rep came with me for some reason.
It nearly threw me to the wolves as I entered the highway (needed due to dealer location, bad road design) which was 55 mph zone with traffic doing 65 coming from behind me on a blindish for them peak.
The car SLAMMED the brakes. The auto system saw a shadow.
Nearly got creamed in the back. It wouldn't respond to any attempts at manual control for a good heart attack period before I finally got it to let me speed up (there was no shoulder anyways).
Sales Rep spent the rest of the rest drive explaining how that was totally fine and not a problem. I walked. After it became clear I wasn't staying another rep I had been talking to (I had interviewed at that location not long prior) told me that it happens like every week in the evening with the newer safety system cars.
The Lane assist incident is worth a lawsuit
I wonder what the 'rest of the story' is. I have the same feature on my Honda Pilot - and if you are steering out of the lane your control input overrides the lane keeping input. I get a slight jerk (the same as I would get if I were straying out of the lane) but it isn't enough to override your steering.
If lane keeping assist were that aggressive then it would be impossible to make a lane change without turning your turn signals on first.
In fact, per the manual what the author of the video claims is pretty much impossible. The system will not activate under a list of conditions. One of them is: "The vehicle is not accelerating or braking, and the steering wheel is not being turned."
I had a rental Kia Soul that tried to turn me into a Jersey Barrier. It did not recognize the orange lane markings in a construction zone and attempted to warn me I was leaving the lane. There was not much space left over.
@@colincampbell767yeah, dude is either lying or his "friends" weren't paying attention and are blaming the lane keeping after the fact
@@andrewj9064 He also didn't research the brake button. Those make hill hold assist possible. No normal person uses the handbrake as an emergency brake either.
@@justinvzu01 yeah the handbrake simply locks up the back wheels. There are very few situations we're that is useful when moving
Companies marketing bullshit changes like removing a hand brake as "LE PREMIUM" gotta be the dumbest shit ever done in car marketing.
But man is it effective. Come with a problem that no one has ever had and sell the solution.
@@internetfrnd6496 Creating a problem and then selling a solution is a classic indeed. Can't do a hill-start with a stupid electronic hand brake? Well then you will sure like relying on our broken and slow hill-start assist system!!! Good Lord...
Same story with touch-screening everything. They call it premium, but it's actually cutting corners.
@@internetfrnd6496 Apple ever since the start the whole plan was make thing
take then make then for removed thing add more thing remove thing fix gone thing to then make more thing
I hate the idea of the handbrake going away. However, I admit it is pretty nice on my minivan. If I forget to set it, or put the vehicle in park when I shut it down, the car puts itself into park and sets the brake on its own. That's pretty cool.
I do miss the handle, but I've yet to drive a minivan with a parking brake handle. They've all had the extra pedal.
What a lot of people don't talk about in terms of safety in a vehicle is honestly Interior layout.
While not really a safety "Feature", it's certainly a safety hazard when most of your vehicle's controls and accessories are operated through a touch screen now, some of which requires going through layers of windows and tabs just to reach specific features just to toggle on or off, which is keeping your eyes off the road for a dangerous amount of time, especially if the screen stretches over past the middle of the dash.
Yep its a nightmare just to change climate settings whilst driving in those vehicles.
absolutely! In my previous car, with driving experience I had memorised every basic function and it's buttons. There was not a need to take my eyes off the road even for a second. Be it climate controls, radio, bluetooth.
In the new car, half of this is in a touchscreen tablet and rest are in very sleek buttons which cannot be memorised. You can't even differentiate b/w them if you're running your finger across them without looking... useless.
There's a difference between simplicity and minimalism. Burying everything in a single touchscreen is minimalist, not simple.
Minimalism is when you reduce the amount of tools needed to do a job, while simplicity is where you reduce the number of _steps._ Having one multi-purpose tool in the form a screen means you have to take multiple steps in order to reconfigure that tool to do the job. It adds steps, which destroys simplicity.
This is why I love Mazda. Physical tactile buttons for most features you'd need while driving. The infotainment screen is high on the dashboard where you can see it without taking yours eyes off the road, while the infotainment controls are a tactile dial on the center console that you don't have to look at to operate.
true, idk why the hell manufacturers decided to put everything in a tablet instead of keeping physical dials.
in my car, it has a touch screen where i can control to AC but i also have physical buttons so i never actually have to take my eyes off the road
When I take my 911 out on the weekends for dinner or something, nothing is more anxiety-inducing than a teenager in a large SUV that's in your vicinity. The worst part of it all is that even when I'm driving a fairly decently sized sedan, such as my brother's E-Class, you're still pretty much a speck compared to them. I know both of these vehicles aren’t very tall, but they’re not exactly quiet either. It’s just all-around concerning, so thank you, café regulations, I guess.
You're rich buy a tank or something
@@redlight3932 cybertruck…
@@redlight3932 Not everyone wants to drive round in a giant bloated tank that handles like shit.
@@gravemind6536 if I could, I would lol
The amount of times I've been nearly run off the road in my 5 series (pretty large station wagon) by one of those jacked up yank tanks is insane. I had someone in a lifted Silverado come feet within running onto my hood as I was executing a legal protected arrow u-turn. He didn't hit the brakes until I honked my horn
You would think the rise of traffic fatalities over the past decade would be an indicator that none of these features are working
Its in an indicator of physics working as predicted. More mass and higher speeds = higher possibility of death in a crash
And cars being more and more unreliable.. 😵💫
I wanna point out that carmakers still add them mainly because if you don't have them, then the implication in the average person's mind is that the car is less safe, and it's nearly impossible to market something that is dangerous.
@@user-lq5nh1hm1xcars are not less reliable what are you talking about. Bro had to be born within the past ten years.
@@Lordofthedawgs I worked in auto shops for 4 years before getting into the gun industry, and you would not believe the amount of things that go wrong with modern cars for absolutely no reason. When I worked at dealership shops, I spent most of my time doing relearns on the various electronic systems because they just shit themselves for no apparent reason. Not a single mechanic I know drives a car made newer than 2010. Most settle on something from the late 90s because there's a pretty strong consensus that car technology made the most sense about that time. ABS, power steering, CD players, AWD, things like that
Imagine drifting with a button parking brake 💀
True, even an space bar as a parking brake would be better than that💀
You can't pull it and it will just jam on the brakes it will hardly feel different to the normal brakes.
Now that it would be really sad
Nah it will be "activate drift mode" button
@Andrew21369420 fr
These are some of the reasons I bought a 2020 WRX. No auto steer/brake or warnings, manual parking brake, manual trans, and also a key instead of a stupid fob. Its nice to be the only “driver” of the car.
The problem is that people trust what should not be trusted, like computers, an comercial airplane have 4 redundant eletronic sistems in case of failure and an extra system in case all 4 fail but people trust their lives in a single eletronic system on a car.
@@C0lon0And its only getting worse. I read an article somewhere that the 2025 Camry had steer by wire, as in no physical connection between the steering wheel and tires. So what happens with lane keep assist? Can it completely overrule your input when your trying to miss that ladder in the road? Talk about scary!
They’re also the reasons I still drive a 1983 Trueno.
yeah but you still have mandatory ABS etc. which also isn't safe in spins and on loose surfaces
@@bn880 This is true, mostly standard fair since the late 90's and stability control being standard fair past 2011. My snow vehicle this past winter was a rusty 1979 Jeep Wagoneer, total tank in the snow, and I could stop without my brakes being released by a computer.
Car with pop up headlights: *BANNED*
Meanwhile the Latest G Wagon : permanent pop up turn signal
Tbf apparently Mercedes had to do a lot to be able to keep that
@@MaticTheProto i mean... They could have done some paperwork...
"but bro... big car means freedom, why cant i drive my overconsuming pedestrian killing machine, you are 100% attenting against my freedom REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"
"It can haul and tow so much, you are just mad because you can't afford it. I can tow a yacht."
Proceeds to never tow or haul anything to the day he sells it, can't even fit a plywood board in bed because the bed is too short and drives 10lb of groceries once a week.
Oh wow a man who believes in freedom. Can you give me a protected bike lane so I can have the freedom to bike to and from work everyday to save on gas?
@@zacharymarentette5269 no, you commie
"It sure is nice driving my 2020 Chevy Silverado."
"Hi Squidward."
I will never not hate on big trucks and SUVs. The average modern consumer vehicle looks stupid as fuck.
Yep it mad how much people are spending on these things too.
They don't just look stupid. They are stupid. All they care about is doing what everyone else is doing.
I can't wait for that trend to die out, it may take one, it may take five years, it may take a decade but the trend will die out.
I live in India and Ford has re-entered the market here, so I was in a parking lot and I saw a new Ford pickup IRL, that was the first time I felt true fear seeing a car, like I knew how big those cars are but never got an IRL scale to truly understand it
@@flyingproofficialbro that ford F650 is humungus like straight out of fiction, how can someone drive something like that?
Something I find funny about hand brakes is so many people refuse to use them because "what if they fail", the only times I've seen handbrakes fail is when the hinges are so rusted from only being used once a year during an MOT test that they either no longer move at all, or get stuck in the open position so now it's just on permanently. So if you never use your parking brake ever it will probably fail on you if you ever have to use it as an emergency brake.
And yes I do know a parking brake can fail when used as intended, but people are just too afraid of the what if scenario. The odds of your car getting hit while parked are much higher than the parking brake failing, doesn't mean you're never going to park anywhere other than a highly secure private garage
Funny you should mention that I moved my Grandmas car for her once and she was suprised I put the parking brake on its one of the cable ones where you pull the lever Mercedes C class she said she never puts it on and I told she should because its very common for an automatic to fail for parking brakes being below efficency requirements on MOT tests because of lack of use I checked and her car had failed for it once as do many autos. Even if I had an automatic though I find the way it rocks when in park too unsettling so I would always use the parking brake anyway.
@@gravemind6536 yeah I'm a Mercedes mechanic myself so I'm quite familiar with these things on a variety of models
I don't understand that, use it while going in park as well
I never use the new electronic park brake. I miss the old park/emergency brake.
@@frankdeboer1347 I'm not even talking purely electronic parking brakes, whenever I get in a customer car that doesn't have one that automatically engages when you park your car there's a 99% chance the parking brake isn't on. Doesn't matter if it's a lever, a pedal or a button most people just don't use it when it doesn't automatically engage
All car companies be like: Ooooh properly working mechanisms let make it TOO DAMN COmPLICATED
"but I want a simple car that doesn't try to kill me"
"WELL THAT'S TOO DAMN BAD"
I knew some modern cars beep when you drive over the line, but cars rejecting your input and just going where they think you should go is fucking dystopian
reminds me of a old Matpat video talking about how OG Watch Dogs hacks can technically be done a Phone could hack your car so uhhh
There isn’t a driving system that does that. People are exaggerating and relying on it too much.
Those systems are meant for bad drivers who aren't paying attention. If you are alert and you fight it, it gives up and lets you drive (kinda like hitting the brake on cruise control)
I'm an engineer and I adore automation, but I don't know why they even attempt that with the possible liability.
One that needs to be mentioned is the "please carjack me" feature where putting the car in park automatically unlocks the doors. You park your car in a bit of a sketchy area to check google maps on your phone? Now all your doors are unlocked. I sure hope you remembered to relock them.
There was a news story where some government agents like FBI or something were all killed because this happened. They were in a bulletproof SUV and they got stopped on the road by some gang people. They made the mistake of putting the vehicle in park, the criminals were able to open the now unlocked doors, and all of the occupants of the vehicle died.
oh my god. the world's a movie, stooge.
Can't stand lame assist that takes control of the car. Same with collision avoidance assistance.
Was in a rental car that had those once. Guy was at a stop sign and obviously couldn't see the intersection so started slow pulling up so they could see. Collision Avoidance thought he was going to pull out apparently, so jerked us into the oncoming traffic lane where there was a car very close. Thankfully I was able to jerk the car back into my lane before getting into an accident but it was extremely close.
Turned the assistants off immediately and now make sure any car I drive that has them I disable.
Always figured they're trying to kill us with that stuff I never have it on either but most the cars im in are old anyway
I made sure when getting my current car to get it for the things it didn't have, it has a handbrake, 6 speed manual gearbox, 4 cyclinder engine with timing chain rather than these little 3 cyclinders with wet belts etc I made sure it had no assists of any kind besides standard ABS and ESP. 2016 Toyota Auris or Scion IM for you Americans and its been flawlessly reliable and nice peaceful drive no chimes no annoying assist features etc. Only annoyance is having to turn off stop start every time I start the engine, when its 10 years old and out of warranty I plan on doing a simple stage 1 remap and getting the stop start removed in the process though.
"lame assist" Love it
I call it collusion improved assistance
I'll be fucking dmaned if i ever buy a car newer than 2004
Most of people who buy SUV or pickups don't even need all that trunk space on a regular basis or don't even a family
They don't even have that much trunk or bed space to begin with. On average those SUVs and pickups can fit less stuff than older sedans and wagons, damn insane.
@@burneracc2567my uncles mazda b2200 from the 80s has a bigger trunk space than a fucking brand new f150
This is why I like my corolla hatchback. I was able to permanently disable the lane departure warning/assist because it was annoying af. There's no automatic braking warning, instead it beeps at me pretty loudly and disables radio audio so i hear it. The blind spot monitoring works like a charm with the light in my side view mirror and can even detect motorcycles.
However there isn't a standard e-brake, it's electronic. But tbh I've never even used the switch because it automatically engages and disengages when I put it in/out of park.
Be careful with disablind stuff like that permenantly it could invalidate your insurance but yeah I get why you would do it I hate that stuff thankfully my hasn't got it Its a 2016 Toyota Auris or Scion IM for Americans. The lorries I drive however all have lane assist AEBS etc and I turn them off every day.
the first car i ever drove was a 2018 Subaru Outback
That fucking thing had so many warning chimes and messages that it was almost impossible to pay attention to the road
Merging? Lane departure
Someone in your blind spot? Let’s make it harder to focus on anything else
At a stop sign? the car in front of you moved 0.1 ms ago and you still haven’t taken your foot off the break, time to play some god-awful dog whistle ping that makes your ears bleed
All those safety features were distracting as shit, and to this day i refuse to drive a car with so much as lane departure
the only ‘modern’ safety feature i tolerate is a back up camera, everything else can shit a dolphin
I drove a pickup a few years and switched back to sports car when I realized I use it to carry myself and a small bag literally 99% of the time (or maybe add my kid and his small bag). That and hearing the poor engine push its fat ass up hills hurt me inside.
This is exactly why I'm keeping my 2016 Jetta until it dies. All of the modern tech (SEL Premium, I get automatically aligning headlights, DRLs, automatic wipers, etc etc) but it doesn't have lane keep assist and all of these intrusive "safety" features. Truly one of the last simple cars.
Better hope those fancy headlights don't break.
Do the auto wipers really know just when to wipe to your liking? Can you adjust their sensitivity?
@@nthgth The headlights are actually extremely good. Something interesting about VWs is that I've never had a bulb burn out on mine. I'm still running the factory ones almost 9 years later. The headlights are all sealed and use actual high quality gears, so I'm pretty confident they won't break.
As for the wipers, there's a little 4-position switch on top of the wiper stalk that you can move left or right to adjust the sensitivity (low to high). If you don't want them to wipe at all, you can just move the stalk back to its standby position like in any other car.
It's the perfect mix of modern-car smarts and "old-car analog". Manual parking brake, powered steering that you can still feel the road through, etc etc. The sheet metal is THICK too. It's not weak like in Subarus, where you can push the roof in and out. It's solid through and through.
@@cherrypepsi2815One area Volkswagen (especially 2000s-onwards) didn’t skimp was the unibody construction. They’re almost always high strength steel that will save you in the event of a collision
@satsumagt5284 yep. Always surprised by how flimsy and thin the metal is on subarus and other "good" vehicles. You can literally push the roof of a subaru and it'll massively dent and buckle. Not very inspiring.
@@cherrypepsi2815 Oh, the roof skin and visible body panels aren’t that important for unibody structure. I was talking about how these 2000’s-on VWs are so well built in terms of crash safety: There’s even a video of a Polo being crash tested against a Phaeton, in which the Polo actually survives decently well, given that the A pillar was barely bent after the crash.
The outer body panels… Oh well, the classic Beetle had THICK ones, yet it did poorly in the medium overlap crash test (offset barrier one, you know). The car in my profile pic, although a game car, it’s real life variant is very likely a tin can on wheels
"Bigger means I'm safer" infuriates me so much because they're basically admitting that they're stealing the odds of survival from other drivers so that instead of everyone having equal odds of survival they can survive and everyone else can die
Not to mention it's not even true.
Have fun in that rollover!
@@kalerug do a barrel roll!
Electronic parking breaks are so dangerous that they don't work until you stop so if your breaks fail while entering a canyon corner
They should include an option saying
Pray to God
That's total cap. You can in fact pull the electronic e-brake while driving. It's going to use information from the ABS/ESP module to avoid that the wheels lock up. You just need to pull the lever for multiple seconds. I tried it on my car and It works. If you have a Mercedes long press on the P button, if it's a normal (P) Button just pull and hold for multiple seconds and it will apply it. I've done it out of curiousity on an empty road and it applied the E-brake as long as I pulled on the (P) button. That's what you get when people don't read their owner's manual. If you guys would read it you would know about it. It's mentionned in mine.
@@RaaaphaelThat’s in Mercedes, how many other car manufacturers do you think would include that?, the overwhelming majority don’t do that, all of the cars I’ve driven with electronic parking brakes don’t do that.
@@Gengargamer2_Mazdas e brakes do so as well
@@Stand_Tall actually that is true, I did drive a cx5 and it did have that, forgot about that.
@@Gengargamer2_ My Citroën does it too!
If you want a sleek/empty centre console we had stuff for that: column shifter and under dash hand brake.
@claytonj2024 I'm thinking of one on a datsun 720.
@claytonj2024you could even go Jag style and have it really close to the transmission tunnel, alternatively you have something like on the lotus Europa where it's still hand-operated but instead something you pull towards yourself and twist to disengage
I deeply miss column shifters, My first car had a bench up front
@claytonj2024 I would honestly love a 2024 with a column shift and a bench seat up front so 6 people can sit in the sedan. Whose idea was it to get rid of the bench upfront ?
@claytonj2024 the 2001 ford Taurus I had, had the center console with cup holders and storage, but it folded up to turn into the back rest for the middle seat. Best of both worlds, Bring it back ! I think early 2000s Toyota avalons were the same
0:35 - If your car has no traction, it's not because the brakes failed, it's because your tires aren't gripping the surface. Hitting the e-brake would make things worse because you would be bypassing ABS and ESC, so when you do finally get some traction, you'll probably just end up skidding out of control rather than coming to a controlled stop. I do agree though that it is better to have an actual physical e-brake actuation mechanism; Whether it be a lever or pedal doesn't really matter.
80 - 90% of a vehicle's braking force is on the front brakes, making it very easy to overload the front tires while braking. Only about 75% of a vehicle's weight is shifted onto the front tires while braking, so there's a good amount of additional braking that can still be done.
@@joshjlmgproductions3313 stuff like all of this is why I want to add every grip mod I can to my Car so I can nail every shift without any jack or shit
@@joshjlmgproductions3313 What do you mean by additional braking? The tires are *always* the weak points when it comes to traction. You can't make a car stop any faster by pulling the e-brake, you'll just risk locking up your wheels and possibly spin out of control. Best case is you come to s controlled stop but now with a flat spot on your tires from all the skidding.
@@TheSeanUhTron The rear brakes aren't doing much during braking, so by pulling the parking brake, you're making them do more.
@@joshjlmgproductions3313 No, you will not be able to apply more braking force to the rear brakes than what the power braking system can do. Pulling the handbrake will not help slow down your car, and will in fact make your car more unstable because it bypasses ABS and ESC and risks locking up the rear wheels.
When you jam the brake pedal into the floor, you're getting 100% of the car's braking potential. You're not outsmarting the car designers by pulling the e-brake to try to get some hidden braking power. If you want to stop faster, get better tires.
Fun Fakt: In most EU countries you are able to not only get a regular sized license plate, but also a US sized license plate or a vertical license plate. There are certain criteria for that, but in most cases it's easy. I have seen a lot of (I can only assume) US imported cars that had the design for a US license plate and had EU-style license plates in the shape of US license plates. The reverse is not possible I presume? In the US you cannot get any different forms of license plates, right?
Yeah we only have the 12x6 license plates. There are different designs and vanity plates b7t the shape stays the same
We are standardized so unfortunately we don't but that doesn't mean you have to remove the old plate you can just put the new one over which alot of German car lovers do
@@redlight3932 bmw fanboys like to get a euro trunk with a euro plate and then put their American plate over it..
American individuals cannot import foreign vehicles unless the vehicle is 25 years old. So we don't really see many real import cars in America
Idk, you’d think so but you also need to pay once a year for license plate tabs, and the number of people I see driving with tabs from 3+ years ago is baffiling
You can probably go around with no license plate tbh lol this sounds like a bad joke but I can see my neighbors car parked on the street right now with no plate. He’s def had that for longer than a 21 day permit would allow no plate
I hate everything about "smart" systems. If im travelling at a speed that can kill me, i want to have full control in that situation. Everything further than Esp and Abs is nothing for me. Im 22 yo and driving a manual Audi a3 from 2006 and its awesome
And you're right you can't beat an ABS system and you can't brake individual wheels like ESP can. You can see the road ahead and you can check your mirrors and blindspots you don't need AEBS or lane assist they're just annoying.
@@gravemind6536 you are my man 🫡
Greetings from Germany
a main battle tank has better sight lines than some of these large grille trucks
in fact, those old peterbilt and mack semis with flat hoods have only marginally worse sight lines
that’s how you know it’s a problem. when your sight lines in a passenger car are almost as bad a freaking semi truck
I live in the UK and drive cab over Artic lorries, they have better visibility than a pickup they have a forward blindspot mirror and two nearside blindspot mirrors and one offside blindspot mirror if you do your checks properly you can see a cat sat directly in front of your lorry or on the nearside too you would miss one sat on the offside though but still, the visibility is far better than any pick up.
Lol I was actually a tank crewman in my younger days. In a tank you can roll the hatch open and stick out the top for great visibility. We only closed up if we were shot at, then watch out we're like Karen in her escalade 😂
Who's to blame for the collision with the pedestrian? The human person who is only walking like their species has been doing for hundreds of years? Or the person who just got their brand new 2 ton car, barreling toward the pedestrian who didn't see the car traveling at 60 in a 40 zone?
Could be both.
You sound like you walk in the road and flip off cars when they honk
oh im well aware that bad drivers exist. i was getting off the bus one day and given how the route was i had to cross the street to get to my house. i had to go back and get my book bag because i'd forgot it. i was on the center line when i realized i forgot and the second i took one step after turning around, a red sedan sped past at over 40mph. in a 25mph time of day in a school zone. with a bus with blinking red lights and a stop sign. If i hadn't forgot my bag i would have been nixed from the census that day.
7:07 unfun fact about the Cybertruck: the edges and corners of its stainless steel doors are enough to cut your skin when you open them. The Cybertruck can hurt you even before you step into the vehicle. On the Cybertruck owner's club forums (yes it's real) someone posted a picture of their injury, and it was pretty deep.
And the automatically closing trunk can cut your fingers clean off.
Wasn’t that the same idiot who said it was his fault and that he still loves the truck?
@@mrsoisauce9017 Yes. In his exact words, “I’m clumsy, so this is 100% my fault lol. I still love the truck!”
@@draineweYT Tesla owners, am I right?
@@mrsoisauce9017 a Twitter account spends months likely still to this day waiting for his Truck that broke day one to be fixed an everytime he mentions the lack of Truck he simps the Truck
"we have an abs bro"
ABS in question: "hey bro, we won't work in case of breakline leak"
Lane keep assist systems almost always have a torque limit, if you turn the wheel with enough force it will turn off the lane keep system (It's usually not much force). Systems like what GM has can actually tell the difference between the driver turning the wheel and natural drift of the vehicle and won't interfere if it determines that you're turning the wheel. I'm guess that Honda's system is just very aggressive.
It's not. I drove a Ridgeline as a loaner for 2 weeks. It's a little stronger than the system in my GMC, but still very easy to override.
It does have a lane departure mitigation that "shakes" your wheel, though.
At least in the 2022 Ridgeline I was borrowing, both systems could be turned off and did not come back on on start up.
Dont tell me not to drive my car in rain is the funniest thing i heard today thanks it made my day though it is now 9 51 pm but anyways made my day
Imagine not using what you have the way you want because some piece of shit said.
U.S. trying to promote EVs for the environment while also promoting full size trucks and suvs at the same time is so funny.
When I saw Ryan F9 in that RAM my thinking was "Oh he must've took the engine out for a bit." NOPE. That was with the engine and everything still in. And he managed to fit in there. My god these car manufacturers are insane.
The bigger they make it the less fuel efficient it needs to be.
Bu- bu- bu- BUT MY FREEDOM AND HAULING AND TOWING CAPABILITIES, I CAN TOW A YACHT WITH IT, YOU ARE JUST MAD YOU CAN'T AFORD ONE.
Proceeds to tow and haul nothing untill the day he sells it, can't fit a plywood board in bed because beds have been getting shorter than ever and only drives 10lb of groceries once a week.
I know one family where the wife had to drive the Nissan sedan instead of the Mecedes SUV since the SUV needed major repairs. She rear ended someone and blamed the car for not having collision mitigation feature as the reason for the accident. These driver assist features might claim to improve safety, but in reality it's making drivers even more complacent. They expect the car will keep them out of trouble despite their bad habits.
Im pretty sure that, to a degree, all cars being manual will reduce cars crashes, given the fact, that forces you to being focus on your driving
Yeah, to get back to your point about pedestrians and "jaywalking"...
In 2021, Germany had about, 2562 (statista) pedestrian deaths following car accidents. The U.S.A. had about, 7388 (NHTSA) pedestrian deaths following car accidents.
What is important to note here: Germany does not have anywhere near as many Pickup Trucks & SUVs as you do, but we do allow jaywalking everywhere.
From this little research I have done (which very well may be wrong...) I conclude that, in most cases, the pedestrians are not the root cause of their own deaths.
Great video as always, enjoy your day.
Here in Brazil people get killed more on sidewalks than walking in the middle of a highway
Not to argue, but Germany also has a lot lower population, and therefor a lot fewer cars as well. Per 100000 inhibitants is a better statistic (you can find it on Wikipedia) where the US sits at 12.9, while Germany is at 3.7
Also fair to consider u.s pedestrian infrastructure is lacking and often encourage pedestrians to preform dangerous actions just to get anywhere in a reasonable amount of time. Numerous occasions where I've tried crossing a 5 lane 4-way and the beg button just doesn't work...
Had to wait for people to be nice and let me cross
Honestly we need to less relient on Cars and have better Public Transportation
@@istvanlorinczi2817that's somehow even worse than I thought
ayo great vid! the change from physical, tactile controls to screens, buttons, and knobs are complaints ive had for a while... mad respect for being a car channel that emphasized the points of: avoiding pedestrian-blaming, and emphasizing the ridiculousness of suvs & light trucks and the insane loopholes and manipulation that has led to the proliferation of those ungodly machines
On my dad’s truck (2015 silverado) the stability control made him crash. There was a dump truck that was not in its lane (the driver was on his phone) so my dad turned partway into the ditch on the side of the road and when he tried to turn it back, the computer locked the steering and he hit a hog that was on the side of the road. If he didn’t replace his brake calipers, he might have gone into the guardrail that was 2 feet away from where the hog landed.
BBQ at your house!!! Ill bring the potato salad and drinks.
All jokes aside. I hope your pops was ok. Im sorry that happened to him... and the hog.
@@kg-Whatthehelliseventhat lmao! But yea, he was fine. Thanks for your concern.
Cybertruck by itself could be in this video 😂
Line assist playing ping pong instead of helping me also
And could say traction control can be annoying when trying to unstuck yourself from snow, especially when you can’t disconnect it
“There’s graveyards filled with people who had the right of way” goes hard
I’d argue that chunky a, b, & c pillars on top of high belt ones are the most unsafe features of any car or vehicle. You want to know why? It increases blindspots which conceals entire vehicles and pedestrians which is fatal in some cases. I’d argue that aerodynamic styling doesn’t help much either since the hood slopes down into the abyss and is hard to see how far or close you are to something. Which a ‘66 Ford Galaxie 500 I looked at last spring, the hood was about 6’ long but since it stuck straight out and had somewhat of a blunt shape to it, was easy to see how far or close I was to something when I test drove it. Some people will argue about how older vehicles are dangerous and modern vehicles are safer and so forth, but when you really think about it, it’s all relative. While cars from the late 50’s and through the 60’s didn’t have any safety equipment other than seatbelts which were mandatory in 1966 along with collapsable steering columns in 1967 along with dual circuit braking, more than made up for it in the excellent visibility there was to the outside.
I agree with most of what you are saying but, wouldn‘t a sloped hood improve visibility of close by things, children for example?
Chunky pillars are for occupant safety and have no regard for those outside the vehicles the worst possible place for your head to hit on a car should be hit by one is the A pillar its pretty much the strongest part of a car its designed to absorb high speed accidents and hold the shape of the cabin. You talk about the blunt shape hood you can see perfectly and I take your point however its a double edged sword landing on that hood would be far more painful than one of the modern sloped hoods with no sharp edges. I miss my first car as the visibility was insane but the car I have no is so much safer for me and others my current car is harder to park as you can't see where either end of the car ends but its easy enough for someone like me in my first car I could to within 1ft of everything easily no sensors or cameras just brilliant visibility.
The chunky pillars are to prevent the roof from collapsing in the event of a rollover
@@Doorbell-bf9vl If the hood is long and shot, you will be able to see any children and how close you are to them.
If the kids are close enough to your vehicle such that you are concerned about the blindspot caused by the hood, you have not been thinking clear enough nor looking at your surroundings so you're aware of what's going on around you.
You should do a bad driving habit video: in Texas, we have crap traffic from people merging slowly on the highway. Then people stop at the middle of a roundabout, or stop before entering when there's no traffic entering, not using turn signals in roundabouts. Finally , there's a long line of traffic on a light intersection. It turns green and everyone is on their phones so about 30 seconds later, if you're down the line you only move up a few meters at most, waiting for the next piece of the line to cross the light when everyone could* have been off the brakes at the same time and you could have already passed the light since the 30 seconds green light actually feels like 3 seconds of movement.
I'm in Texas and you are SO right with that last one especially! I swear, takes 30 seconds from a green light before you, maybe 15 cars back, even starts to move, and light turns red by time 10 get thru. In worse intersections, you could be stuck for 3-4 light cycles just wasting gas and making it hotter.
The slow merge is so annoying.
On-ramps are for getting up to speed.
The cybertruck getting fried in a car wash because it wasn't on car wash mode exemplifies the modern auto industry and also very funny
I will say that those old rubber bumpers from the late 70's going into the 80's weren't really for pedestrians even in period they were stated to protect the car in sub 10mph crashes. There was a lot of people getting hurt in sub 10mph crashes due to whiplash and cars like the pinto having fuel tanks pierced. I know they are ugly but it was a stop gap now the pop up headlight ban on the other hand was just pure BS.
"Bigger means safer"
My guy, ever heard of inertia?
This mostly applies to the Cybertruck, but you can innovate your way out of newtons 3rd law
The amount of unnecessary changes automakers are making to their cars is insane, just removing safety features, making their cars bigger, etc. Plus the fact that the government lets these cars on the road is insane, like you said at 13:16 I think they are also picking favorites. Its wild to think that I could be driving in the middle of the day and get blinded by the person's lights behind me and get plowed into with an SUV with a brick wall for a grill and somehow pop up headlights are worse? Its really scary that cars get bigger and less safe at the same time.
big can be much safer when any of the companies actually factor in the issues like put those lane sensors in front of the car along with cameras to scan for walkers an then try its dam hardest to stop you
but nah they just give us a huge tablet instead
Government “lets” them? More like the government requires them. EPA and CAFE standards are one of the biggest reasons the auto industry is the way it is. Yes consumers do have a play, but that’s only a piece of puzzle.
“And Justice for All”
My ass 😂
12:55 As a motorcycle guy. I always get scared of big SUV and trucks from my surrounding while riding. And imagine having a lane assist on motorcycle.
Same. This is the stuff of nightmares. One of the scariest motorbike situations I've been in was going downhill, in the dark, in the rain, on a wriggly country road. I was taking it slow, but I had an SUV tailgating me, headlights completely dazzling me and making it harder to see. More than once thought I was going to die - had I needed to swerve or emergency brake for whatever reason (e.g. animal or tree branch), I would have been run over.
"Self driving cars will fix it!" Okay bud, look at Tesla.
The cultists will claim fsd is actually really good and will finally be here next year trust me bro it will totally happen
Bladed, you forgot to mention the foot parking/emergency brakes. My dad's truck and my car has a foot parking break and for me it's easier to access.
I hate having to press it DEEP to take the brakes off lol
I know from experience it's *almost* prohibitively difficult to drift a Camry equipped with a foot-operated parking brake, especially since you have to re-press it _harder_ to disengage it. Lol.
It could be easier to access there, but it's possible to design an interior where it's a normal hand brake and it's super easy to access, so that's a fail on whatever designer needed to use the foot-type in order to make their interior work 🤷🏻♂️
Remember:
*_A 2020 Cannonball run was almost cancelled due to a Lane Assist System kicking like crazy._*
(2539, AKA: The madlads who disguised an Audi S6 as a Ford Taurus Interceptor cop car.)
When I was younger, especially when I would take my bike, I was told "assume the cars don't see you."
We need someone jaywalking on every road every minute of the day.
image a company just sending robots all over to do this as a big iligel prank
Ah, lane keep assist... also known as the defensive driving prevention system.
I lost a lot of respect for my former boss when he said he buys the biggest truck he can so that in a crash he survives but the guy in the smaller car dies
#1 cybertruck
Coffin on wheels.
2:26 this is a pretty big thing here in Switzerland when learning how to drive the car legally must have an emergency brake the instructor can use while driving. Of course driving schools will have a break pedal for the instructor but when learning in private with your dad or something your car must have a hand brake
The "lane keep assist couldn't be turned off permanently" thing is mandatory for the NCAP ratings (or their equivalents on your region), sadly. Those ratings don't just measure how safe the cars are during crashes like it used to be, but they also measure the ratings depending on the safety features the car has as standard.
BRING BACK THE ULTIMATE DRIVERS CAR PHILOSOPHY
The only reason I see to buy an SUV or Pick up truck is to do things with it. As in hauling around big things and not just using the size of it to make up for my small package like most drivers out here
If the only thing you “haul” is groceries, then get a minivan.
@@leeroykelly781 i love minivans. very comfortable to drive, great in all weather and very multi purpose.
@@clownavenger0 Yep they went out of fashion completely very popular in the UK too and then in early 10s everyone started shifting to these SUVs because they're cooler to look at and not ugly and they're more comfy luxurious and stylish etc. I think people have completely forgot the purpose of non performance cars and that is that they should function comfortably, efficently and minimal cost. In the UK it was Vauxhall Zafiras, VW Tourans and Ford Galaxies until these bloated monster SUVs came along.
@@clownavenger0 I'd personally like a station wagon the most.
The closest thing to an SUV I'd buy is a Subaru Outback
There was that one time I was cruising and just glanced at the navigator for a moment (not that I'm proud of getting distracted). By the time I looked back at the road to comprehend the situation, I was already going below 10 km/h and came to a stop right after, just behind another vehicle at a red light.
I drive an old, 20+ year-old Corolla hatchback with only the most basic driver assistance features (ABS, TRC, VSC).
The best driver assist You can have _(as of now)_ is Your own skills
Honestly we need to less relient on Cars and have better Public Transportation
Lane keep assist with forced input is my most hated feature. However, with my car, I just get the little vibration on the steering wheel. That I absolutely love. More information is very appreciated. Just don't try to drive for me
Honestly, we should really make the privilege to drive, harder to get. While making public transportation S tier, so people who shouldn't be driving don't have to drive. While making the people who are driving, the best drivers in the world.
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@ILovePancakes24 just move to china already
EXACTLY
@ILovePancakes24 Nice mental gymnastics
@ILovePancakes24 That seriously hurts the chances of competent but lower class people from getting licensed. The current system *when used correctly* works fine. The more exclusive you make the ability to drive the higher the testing cost is. A basic license is around 40$. The test for a cdl (commercial driving license with a much harder test) is around 200.
1: Some cars include a feature that use all brakes to slow the car a quickly as possible with the electronic parking brake. It's also better because with a manual handbrake, you only slow the rear wheels which could make you spin out.
1:27 Can confirm, had the brakes fail on me once and I have never been so grateful for the handbrake.
Same. Good ol salt belt north, brake line rusted between my truck's gas tank and frame and pow, blew the line one day! Foot just suddenly sunk to the floor! Thank god for that cable actuated E-brake!
The ultimate conclusion of that “I need a bigger car to survive a wreck” line of logic is to ask them why they settle for driving something that won’t survive a collision with a fully loaded, 2 mile long, 13,000 ton train. After all, don’t they want to survive if the worst case happens? Why aren’t they driving something that will keep them safe from a collision with a train?
My 2019 Honda civic base model have the electric E-Brake and it works while moving thankfully
Also in that car my lane keep assist stay off but not the forward collision warning
Most of them actually do but it just activates the hydraulic brakes would be no good in an emergency where brake failure has occured.
I drive a 2002 Toyota Tacoma and I’m glad that it has BASICALLY ZERO electric features. Good old cable operated breaks and accelerator basic headlight and a classic pull style hand break. The most “electronic” thing I have in my truck is my aftermarket radio.
The car I drove in driving school had lane keep assist. I did not like it. I never needed it, yet there were a few roads in the middle of nowhere that did not even have road markings, where the lane keep assist activated and quite aggressivly turned to the left. Luckily, there was never oncomming traffic.
I drive Lorries with the system it doesn't understand that there are loads of circumstances where you have to veer onto the other side of the road for example a rouge tree branch sticking out that could rip your wing mirror off a dip or pothole that you don't want to hit, it also hates it when you use hatched markings to your advantage to go past parked vehicles or just otherwise give yourself breathing room.
I remember a couple of years ago watching your channel dreaming of one day having my own car and now I'm days away from finally getting one, dream come true
Just imagine a car using modern engine technologies but built with 90s tech for the chassis, body and general electronics you’d end up with a normal ass tank of a car that just works
Idk if it's the case for all cars, but iirc handbrakes locks the front 2 wheels only, while an E brake on the floor locks all 4.
I hope that there is a car with a handbrake that locks all 4 wheels, because an E brake on the floor next to the regular foot brake would confuse a panicky person moments before impact, & takes longer to lock than a handbrake.
And mate, thank you for talking about huge cars, I'm getting real annoyed with people who drive this:
The ones who purposely bought a big car because they're scared of getting hit by someone else so they crawl while taking up space on the road causing a long traffic jam
The ones who are lazy or don't know how to turn the auto lights off in the day & those that don't turn off high beams (especially pick-up trucks)
And people who sprint an extra 100 over the speed limit in RANGER ROVERS, JEEPS, MERCEDES & OTHER SUVs & WAGONS, GIANT TOYATA PICK-UP TRUCKS, BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY...
[FORD RANGERS] WITH [H I G H B E A M S O N ! ! !]
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Pretending for a sec that getting into a collision has zero chance of causing injury to myself or others, it's still going to take time out of my day.
7:26 there’s no way the government thinks in general.
You got me with the BC destro sack build lmfao, but I must say I got my first car at a late age and my drivers license a week before it. At 29 the dealer was selling me all these bells and whistles with lane keep, blind spot monit, etc etc. Let me tell you sir, I am so glad the car remembers I turned off lane keep, because it didn't take me longer than 2 days before it drove me insane. It honestly made driving on the highway jarring as it would constantly nudge me on a path leading me out of my lanes.
4:41 you just dipped on your homie?
Premium feature? My mom's 16k hatchback has that fucking button.
1) The cause is probably number of forgotten engaged E-Brakes starting fires, the electronic brake can disengage itself, the mechanical can not.
2) The problem is in vagueness of required implementation, if you say to car makers "you need to keep the car between white lanes" do not expect them to go the extra of including anything above like temporary yellow lanes and others, they will do required minimum, the need to have the nice extras for luxury cars.
3) Nobody ever banned pop-up headlights, they just need to pass the tests and the car makers are just like "CBA" while moaning about regulations.
Also "Right on red" is far more dangerous then pop-up headlights so you better get rid of that first.
4) Only if the weight is on different classes, this was "true" when most cars were sedans, now you need MRAP to outclass SUV, or Semi.
that's a very stupid cause for the first one, if someone drives without realising they have the e brake on, they shouldn't even be driving in the first place
6:01 i was reading the other subreddits on the right side of the page. made me shed a tear for that crosstrek
2:02 it’s because the electronic parking brake can be automatically activated when the car is put into park whereas a manual parking break needs be activated manually. A lot of people are lazy and don’t put their parking brake on all time.
Most of these features are engineered into vehicles BECAUSE human drivers are regressive. Always on the phone, know nothing about the technicalities of their vehicles, and (sorry to say) just more stupid than ever before. Manufacturers and insurance companies see their customers as absolute liabilities now, leading to the modern features that cars now have.
In fact, electronic parking brake will stop you if you hold it up for as long as you wanna brake but it wont if you just click it up. Just as normal handbrake.
Am I the only one that thinks it’s a bad idea to use the hand brake(that isn’t connected to the ABS) instead of the brake (which is connected to the ABS). I don’t know about you but I like to… you know, have grip
I am sick and tired of people thinking a literal cable is better than ABS. It also has a high chance of locking the rear wheels which makes you slide.
That’s probably why most countries teach new drivers to use the foot brake as it is safer.
It’s not an E-brake it’s a park brake no more, no less
It's also extremely unlikely to lose your entire foot brake, because we've had redundant brake design for decades.
If you pop a brake line, you'll notice it but you'll still be able to brake with half of your wheels.
Yeah and ABS will work on all 4 wheels... but should something fail... it's nice to have a backup, even if the backup has limited capacity. I sometimes have to drive a truck with tons of weight loaded onto it... but the hydraulic brakes have a leak in the master cylinder, so it only has a brief period of braking before you have to pump the pedal. Luckily, the engine braking on an old manual truck is absolutely insane and has as much stopping power as most cars do... I know because someone brake checked me down to a near stop and I was able to stop the truck with the engine and only used the brakes for the last little bit as the engine began to idle. So for cars that are not yours where you do not know the condition of the car, it is nice to have a hand brake just in case... plus, unlike an e brake pedal (which I hate), a lever can be pulled by hand instead of by foot and also by the passenger if say the driver passes out. Redundancy is nice when there is essentially no cost to it.
In general, you should not use the e brake lever other than for parking. But, it is much nicer than a 4th foot pedal (or 3rd pedal in an automatic) which you can see is up and will work should something go horribly wrong in the hydraulic system. People do not maintain their cars, they treat them like disposable appliances and this causes lots of premature failures, thankfully, most of these are the engine or transmission dying rather than the brakes failing or a wheel falling off... though those do happen. But having another redundancy that doubles as a parking brake is amazing. They call it the emergency brake because it should only be used as a last resort when all else fails... frankly, I think in a manual car, the engine braking might be more powerful than the e brake if you drive something with more engine displacement and lower gears than my personal boring car... but manuals are hard to find and I'd rather have a system that is functions differently so that I have a backup... but it's *just* a backup and a parking brake.
Also, bold of you to assume everyone has ABS, almost every car I drive that I don't personally own has either faulty ABS which actively screws things up, an old ABS which is not even as good as a human alone, an ABS which has silently failed, or no ABS (I think, it doesn't have an ABS light on but there is no ABS so either the brake master cylinder is that leaky or it never had ABS). Personally, everything I own, vehicle or otherwise is well maintained, but this is not the case for most people. I've seen some pretty scary stuff... and I'm not even a mechanic... those mechanics I talk with... they have some horror stories.
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ah yes, premium features=less safe, who are you, TVR?
The blind spots on a lot of modern pickups and large SUVs are nuts. One of the things I like about my Kia Sportage is how good the visibility is (at least to the front and sides), with a relatively low beltline. Oh, it also allows me to set the lane keep assist to off by default
Ironically, higher beltlines are mandated in order to protect us from big, dangerous SUVs and pickups. But those same high beltlines reduce visibility, making it harder to avoid an impending collision.
Idk much about the lane keep assist besides the one on my '18 outback, but usually lka is disabled on mine. And even if i have it on during long trips, turn signals and driver input overrides it. At most, it only lightly tugs on the steering when i slightly hug the line.
Why I agree on the electronic parking brakes, I will note that they are easier to apply. I've had a handbrake that I applied just enough, so that the car would remain still on neutral, and multiple middle-aged women were not be able to lower the handbrake. Many drivers are not strong enough to operate a handbrake to actually stop a car.
I ran into the parking break issue when getting my license in February. They require a hand break and neither of my parents car had that. The day before we managed to get his coworkers lifted Jeep and I managed to parallel park it first time 🤷🏽♂️. My mom 2009 van has a emergency break as a pedal.
“This isn’t me making fun of SUVs” well, they should be made fun of
you will never take my popups. I will not stand for it!
We bought a new rav4 premium and one of the features I can’t get used to is the removal of the parking brake which is replaced with a parking button. I’ve driven a Toyota Camry with a foot emergency brake and it is hard to get used to the new tech