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06-21-2023, 02:40 PM | #1 | |
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Subaru Develops EyeSight for Manual Transmission Vehicles
And first car to get it is 2nd gen BRZ in Japan.
I think this is a big deal. It is one fewer thing numbering the days of fun MT cars. I always figured Subaru's reluctance to pair MT and eyesight was a part of their plan to eventually stop making any manual vehicles. I guess in the end it was just their standard over-conservatism. https://www.subaru.co.jp/news-en/202...=newsletter-en Quote:
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I never understood why cars would need any of this? Perhaps if they stopped planting giant "infotainment" tablets on the dash, drivers would actually be looking at the road and driving the damn car. As for myself, my little display is turned off and my eyes are on the road. Just grateful the BRZ has manual controls for everything, no need to hunt on a touch screen.
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In my opinion, cars such as the twins should be simplistic with the minimum of bells and whistles or distractive infotainment systems as to allow the driver to be focused on what really matters, the driving experience. Personally, I hate adaptive cruise control, my old lady's RAV4 has it, it's annoying to have the car slow itself down when I'm getting ready to pass slower drivers. It's just more add-on crap available to replace my right foot. I don't need that shit.
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Recently my DD has become a car with these features. Auto hi-beam, pre-collision braking, lane keep assist I have all come to appreciate. It hasn't saved me or anything, but damn I know it could. Once you're accustomed to it it can only help. Having this technology in no way changes the way I drive, with exception of auto hi-beam freeing up some mental capacity not having to worry about hi-beaming people. It was just announced that the GR86 manual will come with all this stuff for 2024, but mind-bogglingly the auto hi-beams aren't available on the manual per the press release!!! |
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Maybe, just maybe....Subaru will bring back other MT models....
2024 Impreza RS in MT would be nice, Crosstrek, Forester....
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Have this on a crosstrek. Nothing more terrifying than having the car jump on the brakes on the highway because it feels you are too close to the car in front when you are maneuvering. Absolutely terrifying to have the wheel yanked out of your hands when you are adjusting to the edge of a lane for visibility and to pass. Had to turn it off before it caused an accident.
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Eye sight is a great safety feature but people abuse the adaptive cruise control and impede traffic on the highway due to complacency and not moving over. It’s great for when your in bumper to bumper traffic though. All technology is making us dumber and taking the human experience out of the human.
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Long row of zombie drivers... clogging the left lane, barely going faster than the big semis... you have to switch to the right lane and pass the whole line of them. Yep, the joys of adaptive cruise control.
People driving with high beams on nicely light roads... just stay with the low beam for god's sake! The science of human factors tells us that our mind will not attend a task we are NOT performing... attention will wonder and we will not maintain situational awareness. I don't want to be a passenger in a car I am driving... then again, I am a dinosaur... hope future generations will discover my tibia in some tar pit and wonder. (PS: I recently test-drove a German car with exquisite rev-matching... did it better on downshifts than Ayrton Senna could. No fun at all... might as well be automatic.) |
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Here in A murica… if they switched the passing lane to the far right lane instead of the left then traffic would make allot more sense at a glance. Shows you the level of entitlement and abuse of not moving right some of it is strictly poor awareness of surroundings.
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