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Emergency Braking Will Save Lives. Automakers Want to Charge Extra for It

www.wired.com Emergency Braking Will Save Lives. Automakers Want to Charge Extra for It

The tech exists, and vehicles on the road already have it, yet a consortium of carmakers doesn’t want to make this lifesaving equipment standard. The reason is as old as the hills—money.

The tech exists, and vehicles on the road already have it, yet a consortium of carmakers doesn’t want to make this lifesaving equipment standard. The reason is as old as the hills—money.

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I'm all for forcing manufacturers to implement these safety features but you damn well better make a fuckin law that says they can't pass the cost onto the consumer.
Getting tired of shit going up in price by a few thousand dollars every time something is added.
Although tbf I honestly think traffic laws should be much more strict and be taken much more seriously.
- If you force them to spend hundreds to thousands installing a LIDAR system in each vehicle why can't they get that money back?
  Enforcing traffic laws would be the cheaper solution
  
  More policing is never the cheaper solution.
  
  Versus installing high hundreds to low thousands in each car? Im not sure you are correct in that assertion
  
  Because they have the money to spare. And if they don't why are they always reporting record profits?
  
  The US auto sector is experiencing record profits? Since when did that start? There was a blip during covid but most have been down since 2008 or so.
  
  The auto industry is absolutely not posting record profits
- Too late, the ultracapitalists already won America. We're all fucked.

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