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Fully specked out with all the safety options, things look impressive.
I am wondering though...if it is all a bit too much? Let me explain. Yes, people don't pay attention like they should so 'more' would seem to be 'better'...kinda hard to argue. But...can it all be a bit too much? I guess you can always look upon it as one does insurance...hopefully you will never need it (in which case you are just out the $$$) but should you...nice that it's there.
I DO like the rear cross traffic feature...handy when backing out of a parking spot with all those F10's and such parked around you. Every auto should have that...except the really tall ones I guess who can see everything. The CX3 however is just not that tall, so it needs it.
Other items - forward collision avoidance. If one is careless, one is careless, you can only do so much for peoples stupidity so...let the car stop itself. Nice if it works as advertised. The little red icon lighting up in the side mirrors is nice enough. I personally like Honda's 'lane watch' where you actually get to see what's there, but the little red things are nice enough.
So, are these safety features there in part due to what would otherwise be called 'design flaws'?
I mean, as regards the CX-3, the rear window IS small. The side view mirrors ARE smallish. The thicker rear pillars and sloping rooflines make for the dangers 'safety features' are there to 'correct'. Forward collision could be said to be there because people grow increasingly careless...what all the tech in the cockpits and with bluetooth and their phones they seem to absolutely have on and IN VIEW at ALL TIMES as...heavens forbid...they might miss the latest tweet from Taylor Swift and take their eyes off the road and miss that traffic has been backing up for some reason.
I think a large chunk of this stuff is there to protect us from ourselves and mask what would certainly have to be considered design flaws without them...with them, the skeptical among us might argue are there to negate all the deaths...and resulting lawsuits which would hit the automakers for tilting toward what could be seen as increasingly unsafe designs.
Just something I've been thinking about...thoughts?
I am wondering though...if it is all a bit too much? Let me explain. Yes, people don't pay attention like they should so 'more' would seem to be 'better'...kinda hard to argue. But...can it all be a bit too much? I guess you can always look upon it as one does insurance...hopefully you will never need it (in which case you are just out the $$$) but should you...nice that it's there.
I DO like the rear cross traffic feature...handy when backing out of a parking spot with all those F10's and such parked around you. Every auto should have that...except the really tall ones I guess who can see everything. The CX3 however is just not that tall, so it needs it.
Other items - forward collision avoidance. If one is careless, one is careless, you can only do so much for peoples stupidity so...let the car stop itself. Nice if it works as advertised. The little red icon lighting up in the side mirrors is nice enough. I personally like Honda's 'lane watch' where you actually get to see what's there, but the little red things are nice enough.
So, are these safety features there in part due to what would otherwise be called 'design flaws'?
I mean, as regards the CX-3, the rear window IS small. The side view mirrors ARE smallish. The thicker rear pillars and sloping rooflines make for the dangers 'safety features' are there to 'correct'. Forward collision could be said to be there because people grow increasingly careless...what all the tech in the cockpits and with bluetooth and their phones they seem to absolutely have on and IN VIEW at ALL TIMES as...heavens forbid...they might miss the latest tweet from Taylor Swift and take their eyes off the road and miss that traffic has been backing up for some reason.
I think a large chunk of this stuff is there to protect us from ourselves and mask what would certainly have to be considered design flaws without them...with them, the skeptical among us might argue are there to negate all the deaths...and resulting lawsuits which would hit the automakers for tilting toward what could be seen as increasingly unsafe designs.
Just something I've been thinking about...thoughts?