Quote from: giant_mtb on May 02, 2024, 01:16:45 PMI have no memory of ever being in a car seat or using a booster seat. I was born in 1990.

Kids these days are probably gonna have PTSD from being strapped/locked in to a car seat because they can actually remember it since it's required 'til they're in 2nd or 3rd grade.

I was out of car seats no later than 5 years old (I distinctly remember riding around in the car without a booster when my folks moved to their home back in 1994).  At that time, my folks thought it was safest for me to sit in the front seat because the air bag would offer me additional protection! 

I had no idea children were required to sit in a booster until 8.  From what I have seen, I get the feeling most parents don't abide by that rule.

Quote from: giant_mtb on May 09, 2024, 11:30:43 AMYup, I was thinking the same thing.

I don't want to buy a car that needs updates and DLC. I want something fully fleshed outta the box. (aka, a Toyota )

How does Toyota get updates out there if it needs to fix something, or improve/add functionality?

Quote from: CaminoRacer on May 09, 2024, 10:06:39 AMSimilar to video games nowadays. Before consoles were connected to the internet, games had to be tested and fixed before the launch, but now they just launch it and figure they can patch any issues later.

Yup, I was thinking the same thing.

I don't want to buy a car that needs updates and DLC. I want something fully fleshed outta the box. (aka, a Toyota )

Why use a carrot to test when you can loose a finger on Instagram and become instafamous

This world just continues to reward complete assholes

Similar to video games nowadays. Before consoles were connected to the internet, games had to be tested and fixed before the launch, but now they just launch it and figure they can patch any issues later.

Quote from: Morris Minor on May 08, 2024, 02:09:52 PMJay Leno jokes that the received wisdom was that it was best to be "thrown clear." I remember that exact thing being said by the adults when I was a kid.
My friend's dad got in a wreck and was thrown out forwards through the windscreen, bounced along the road like skipping a stone on a pond. Covered in agonizing abrasion injuries. He swore he'd have died if used his seatbelt.

Far more die from ejections than survive.

Quote from: giant_mtb on May 08, 2024, 07:11:34 PMhttps://www.instagram.com/reel/C6th4AvMaxZ/?igsh=OGsybm5xcWtzZ3Rw

It's amazing to me Tesla can do an over the air update to address this with better sensing on the frunk enclosure. 

The amount of things Tesla can successfully address with over the air updates in many ways shows how advanced their product is compared with everyone else. That they let these oversights get through prior to releasing the car, to Mr. H's arguments, show they're also too reckless. 

Part 33: Isuzu Como


In the previous installment, I mentioned the Isuzu Fargo was replaced in 2001 by the Isuzu Como.  Como, of course, being a city, province, and lake in northern Italy.  Once again, Isuzu turned to Nissan to provide its Urvan as the basis for the badge engineered Como.

The Japanese really love their forward-control vans and the Como continues with this familiar layout.  Taking into account the fact space comes at a premium in Japanese cities and driving speeds are rarely fast enough to make the lack of a front crumple zone much of a concern, it's not hard to see why.  Pushing the driver and front passenger as far forward as possible to create maximum space for the payload makes perfect sense in such an environment.

Outside of Japan, forward control vans are a much harder sell.  The 1991 Volkswagen T3 Vanagon being the last forward control van sold in North America.  Forward control vans fared a little better in Europe but even there they have fallen out of fashion.  And as you may have already guessed, the Isuzu Como never made it to Italy.  With Isuzu ending European consumer vehicle sales some twenty-odd years ago now, it is unlikely it ever will.