The downside of automotive technology

[onlinebiker]

Ever known someone to scam an emissions testing??

Those systems are laughably simplistic compared to the AI systems now being used - and you can expect future systems to be more complex, and more expensive. You can count on the costs of maintenance of such equipment being a major part of the expenditures for that vehicle.

Count on people thinking - "Can I get by without it"???

Do people routinely disable their power steering and anti-lock brakes?

Boru

Yes. They do. I have seen p/s pumps that froze up, and rather than spend the money on a pump - they simply stuck on the " manual steering" version of the serpentine belt.

The car I am currently driving has the ABS disabled - as one of the surge solenoids is defective - and makes a hammering noise. The previous owner simply unplugged the main plug. The power brakes still work with the ABS disabled. The ABS is superfluous anyway. We have several other cars of the same make that did not come ABS equipped.

And consider - those two systems are nothing compared to the cost and complexity of collision avoidance systems.

You can count on people doing the cost/ benefit analysis, and cost will come up short.