rev up your engines
if you've noticed in many modern cars they don't have the traditional
handbrake the one you either pull up or the American cars wouldn't you step on
and lock in place for the emergency brakes they've gone to electronic
emergency brakes and you might wonder why the traditional ones with cables
have worked really quite well over the years well it's because everything's
being computerized if you have like he'll assist so your car doesn't roll
backwards when you're on a hill it can put the mine and when you take off it
can turn them off so the computers can actuate the braking system I find it to
be somewhat of a mistake they've had many problems with failure especially in
the American luxury cars you got a mechanical cable that pulls holds it in
place you can feel the tension yourself know how tight to make it if it is used
in emergency or if you're parking on a hill to pull it up you change that to an
electric switch with two little motors one on each side to pull a lot electric
is the key here they're inside the braking system all that water goes
flying around when it's raining from the tires snow water all over the place they
often short out last thing you want is an emergency brake that shorted out in
an emergency when you need it a physical backup if you ask me that's the best but
of course everything's going computerized so then the computer
control this and that but realize as they age especially you guys that live
up north where he got all the salt on the road that stuff's gonna eat the
electronics up I've seen it in the American luxury cars and it's gonna be
one expensive pain in the butt to fix if you're like me and keep your cars for
years and years and years and it's tough breaks it's not a simple cable you gotta
replace anymore it's a very sophisticated expensive electronic
system gonna cost you a lot more as it ages and really it's not that good of an
emergency brake because you pull it the motor does it automatically when you got
it with a hand you can do little a lot I like a solid mechanical thing you can
rely on is after all called an emergency brake to be used in emergencies and if
it becomes electronically controlled and it's part of the regular braking system
when you're on hills and stuff they kind of defeats the purpose, here's a not
surprising news AAA has been testing cars with these semi autonomous
driving systems and it finds that these systems have a really hard time
identifying pedestrians got little videos are watched one the show dummies
walk you know you see them standing there or moving dummies and the cars are smashing
into them as they walk across the crosswalk so if you're walking upon a
crosswalk and people have these autonomous or semi-autonomous cars I'd
be leery about hopping in front of one of them cuz I might just fly over in one
of the videos they show them head whele pedestrian dummies hitting the
windshield and this testing was done at 20 to 30 miles an hour not that fast of
a speed but especially found out that they had hard time recognizing small
children we're just you know the last thing you want to get hit by a car as I
said now let's talk about all the cars are gonna be driving themselves soon no not
really sometimes people go too far with the
stuff it's least a good thing that people are testing these things out now I read
that they were doing testing in Germany and they found that the
autonomous ones we're no good at figuring out guys on motorcycles either
they get confused and that's basic at slow speeds amazing what's gonna happen
at a higher speed they're really gonna get confused here we go we got quality
going again with BMW BMW called almost all of their cars that they made since
2018 to fix the backup cameras that don't work correctly well let's face it
people driving BMWs don't care who's behind them they're just zooming
around so I guess it fits with their entire philosophy of they're just
zooming around they don't care what's behind them it turns out that they made
the cameras too sophisticated so you can adjust the brightness anywhere you want
but unfortunately it stays out whatever you said it so let's say you set it for
daytime and now it's nighttime you won't be able to see anything or vice versa
it's a software fix but still it shows that they're supposed at high tech they
don't think about the ramifications of this technology till later on it just
amazes me you think these engineers think of every possible scenario when
they make something but they put too much tack too much adjustability and
it's coming better minute rear end and of course this also covers the Toyota
Supra which is in reality a BMW so they're recalled too
well goodbye to the Cadillac CTS Cadillac announced that they're stopping
production of the CTS 2019 because of last year they made the model now these
things started at $50,000 in man you did not get your money's worth to these cars
I've got customers buy them and they were endless money pits as they aged and
sometimes as little as sixty sixty-five thousand miles they start falling apart
they were not very well built cars they didn't hold up over time and their
resale value oh that's the plummeted like a stone going over Niagara Falls so
if you really aren't crazy and you want to can't let CTS 2019 the last model you
can buy brand new cuz they're not gonna be making them anymore, so if you never
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