I liked it when the supply side made the noise that you were done. 
I liked it when the supply side made the noise that you were done.
Osterkraut wrote: nor is it adding another system that could fail.
Say that again when you are standing next to your car with all the lights flashing and horn honking because 10 lines of code was one too few :)
Rob_Mopar wrote: I liked it when the supply side made the noise that you were done.
If anyone has one of these for sale, please contact me. I've been wanting one for a while.
Klayfish wrote: I don't understand the big deal here. As was said earlier in the thread, the folks on this forum aren't the 99% of car owners/drivers. So the view here will be much different than for most people buying the car.
Hence why I posted it here, rather than on facebook or something 
JG Pasterjak wrote: Anti-technology threads posted on the internets from computers are irono-licious! jg
you clearly haven't seen how old the laptop I'm using is.
Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote:Osterkraut wrote: nor is it adding another system that could fail.Say that again when you are standing next to your car with all the lights flashing and horn honking because 10 lines of code was one too few :)
Newer WRX's have a problem with the brake light switch adjuster getting out of adjustment (thanks, plastic threading). When it gets a hair out of adjustment (say, from hitting the brakes hard repeatedly on an autocross course), it trips a ton of stuff, and you no longer have brake lights, ABS, TCS, or cruise control. None of which I terribly would miss (other than the brake lights), except it comes with a Christmas tree of lights on the dash too.
This is just what you're talking about.....all of these electronic systems are interlinked and/or depend on each other. If one thing stops working right, then it's FUBAR.....
Osterkraut wrote:Javelin wrote: My big gripe is that the commercial posed the owner as a complete berking idiot, which is something 90% of car commercials do nowadays. I'm sorry, but how does insulting my intelligence make me want to buy your car? WTF?Huh? Look, if my car beeped when the tire pressure was correct, berkeley if I'm getting a tire gauge out. THAT'S being smart.
You're mis-reading me. I didn't say the feature was stupid, I said the owner being portrayed in the commercial was.
I am ambivalent towards the product being hawked (I hate useless tech, all of my cars have a pressure gauge in the glovebox and are checked monthly, buuuuuut all of my family members will drive years on 4psi, so I see the value in TPMS and an auto-honk).
What I hated was that 90% of car commercials are angling that their owners are complete numbskulls, and I still haven't figured out why that would make me want to buy a car.
if it was programmable i'd want it. sort of. kinda.
i dunno. it's not the dumbest feature.
We're never going to see that retro Nissan 510; are we.
Datsun310Guy wrote: We're never going to see that retro Nissan 510; are we.
Nissan would be the last company in the world I would expect to do a "retro" car. Hell, in a few years they won't even have a manual transmission in any cars at this rate......
Keith Tanner wrote:corytate wrote: ...Couldn't have been ABS-based if it was beeping when the car wasn't moving. ABS sensors can only measure wheel rotation.
that is an excellent point
It would be more impresive if the tires filled themselves and left me out of it altogether, hell even the Russians figured that out 50 years ago
In reply to Wally:
And to think they only just released that tech for heavy commercial trucks in the US this week! 
New technology is usually interesting. People (not us) buy new cars. Car makers have to protect the somnambulent public from themselves so they can keep buying brand new cars every couple of years.
Most of us here on this forum are not new car shoppers, and most should have their opinion cards revoked because of all of the people who said, "If someone makes a sub-2800lb rear wheel drive car with 200hp and a manual transmission, I'll be the first in line," and yet everyone is making fun of the FR-S. Assuming the price-gouging were to cease, that is THE CAR that everyone on this forum has been asking for! Quit your whining and don't buy an Altima. The sub-$2012 section is right here anyway.
Javelin wrote: In reply to Wally: And to think they only just released that tech for heavy commercial trucks in the US this week!
it's older than that. We had a customer with these on his dump truck atleast ten years ago
Lugnut wrote: New technology is usually interesting. People (not us) buy new cars. Car makers have to protect the somnambulent public from themselves so they can keep buying brand new cars every couple of years. Most of us here on this forum are not new car shoppers, and most should have their opinion cards revoked because of all of the people who said, "If someone makes a sub-2800lb rear wheel drive car with 200hp and a manual transmission, I'll be the first in line," and yet everyone is making fun of the FR-S. Assuming the price-gouging were to cease, that is THE CAR that everyone on this forum has been asking for! Quit your whining and don't buy an Altima. The sub-$2012 section is right here anyway.
These are facts folks, take a good long look.
Woody wrote:Rob_Mopar wrote: I liked it when the supply side made the noise that you were done.If anyone has one of these for sale, please contact me. I've been wanting one for a while.
It's easy enough to find them for sale. Problem is, you're not the only guy who wants one. And the price reflects it.
I laugh at that commercial every time. That there's funny, I don't care who you are.
Wally wrote:Javelin wrote: In reply to Wally: And to think they only just released that tech for heavy commercial trucks in the US this week!it's older than that. We had a customer with these on his dump truck atleast ten years ago
the HMMWV has had them since what, the mid 80s?
In reply to Keith Tanner:
That's no joke about the price. My dad is like the Mexican Sanford and he just sold two dirty and broken eco tire flators for $300 each.
irish44j wrote:Datsun310Guy wrote: We're never going to see that retro Nissan 510; are we.Nissan would be the last company in the world I would expect to do a "retro" car. Hell, in a few years they won't even have a manual transmission in any cars at this rate......
Except for the fact that they sort of already did it. Weren't they the company that bought back a bunch of their 70's vintage models(240Z's), and re-made them back to new for sale to the public? Now that is the sort of retro I can get behind. More so than the bloated "retro" barges we are getting out of Detroit (??) now.
A few years ago I mentioned to a fellow student that her left rear tire was nearly flat and that she needed to put air in it first thing. She was a Brit, on a visa, attending design school in San Francisco.- young, smart, attractive- and she didn't know a screwdriver from a bucket. That Night- she lost control of her car on a freeway on ramp and ended up severely injured.. Financial ruin, out of school, back to Britain. Of course it was a right turn. She was lucky to live. Every day people die due to under inflated tires. Nice people- family's wrecked, the whole sad story. It is a very under reported problem with immense human and financial costs. I am 110% in favor of this little slice of the "nanny state". And of course the "nanny state" is being driven by the insurance companies that would like to see an end to the carnage for both good and capitalistic reasons.
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