16 year olds (and people in general) are going to text, facebook, tweet, whatever else while they drive whether they have this radio or not. No amount of laws will stop that. Would you rather have that 16 year old
a) using voice control on their radio to send texts, still looking at the road and able to react
or b) looking at their phone to send texts, not watching the road, swerving into the other lane, not able to react

**yawn**

mornin all....cant wait to see what Scion has to say today. Im pretty pumped! even though im in so much pain from snowboarding last night (i had a bad wipeout).

I see some people also think that the car under the tarp is the test car spied from Laguna. The thing that is driving me nuts is WHATS UNDER THE HOOD! We know its turbo, but i just want to see how they mounted, how they plumbed, how they fit FI components in a small bay. I hope we get a peek.

There is no point in adding a infotainment system to a car that is supposed to be a barebones pure fun car. The BRZ isn't barebones either, but at least what they do add has a function. HID's? Yes, please. Push Start? Awww yeah! Navigation? I could use that. Nicer interior? Why not? Twitter and Facebook? Who the fuck cares.

Nice pictures ! Now I'm sure : I want one !

"MAN, I LOVE THIS CAR!!!!"

every time i look @ the FR-S i'm so thankful they didn't cheap out on us and give us something cheap looking. thank you Toyota!!!

:happy0180:

Are they supposed to come out in March in Australia? The date for the US is supposed to be in May I thought?

That's a pretty defeatist attitude. "They're gonna do it anyway so let's make it easier for them". Whether they're looking at their phone to do it, or fiddling with the nav system to do it doesn't really make a difference.

The last girl I dated posted everything we did and everywhere we went on Facebook. I could withstand the insanity of it for two weeks because she was hot.

Do you think it will even use the same engine as the FR-S?

I agree x2

This. Just remember the population they are marketing to. Question answered.

They insist that they need to get their messages out prompto, no matter whatever you are doing at the moment. :mad0259:

And they also insist that they can do that safely.

How is the A4 convertible safer than other cars? what other cars?

Does anyone know where to watch the press conference live online?

honestly it could go either way, FA20 NA-T or EJ207. I just want to see their solution physically.

I really again fall on to the category of " Stuff I have to Pay for but never Use" doesn't bother me too much at least for now I wait for the revealing so that we know totally what to go on. Is there a price announchment too or is that something around April?

Did you miss the Navi sys in the FR-S?

I'm thinking its the new factory sponsored drift car for the '12 season.

did you happen to look at the cabin picture? and if so, do you not have eyes?

You're kidding right. It's a great looking, small car that gets terrific gas mileage. I expect tons of women (and a few not-so-straight men) to buy the Automatic version of this car. They love to text, tweet, and facebook: Anything that lets them spam their view of the universe to everyone in it!

http://kalecoauto.com/images/tampon.jpg

I keed, I keed.

Read what I quoted again please. It was about FB/Twitter updater thingy.

Ok, so it has navi. Still, I'd take HID's over Navi any day. If possible I'd take no Navi at all, cheaper price beats out a convenience I'll rarely use.

but touch screen is so much cooler.. once you get it
its hard to go back to knobs.

But HIDs are more practical and offer a degree of safety with better visability at night over a touch screen.

I have a touchscreen in my GTI, I hate it.

So are you saying that unless you have HID's, you can't drive a car at night? Dang, what were you using to drive with at night before the invention of HID's....:lol:

Great parents are not ones who buy their kids sports cars when they are 16....That's failed parenting imo (yes I'm a parent).



Guess the rest of us drive blindly. The 350z comes with HID's, lol at me thinking I was safer just because my headlights were decently bright. If anything to me, HID's is a "cool" feature. Much more than that, sorry just don't see it. (no pun intended).

HIDs provide better visability which I would take on a country road or driving in the mountains. Updating FB or twitter provides nothing.

:lol:OMG thanks for this. I have a few friends that are getting this in an email.

Guess you don't have HIDs on your tC.

Lmao at Chevy's attempt to compete. Code 130R

HID's is a cool feature, which also provides a practical and safe driving experience at night. Especially where I live with lots of small back-roads that have curves. Currently in my GTI, I have HID's. My last car did not and I don't think I want to go back.

So you don't talk to your passenger when you drive? This device is no more distracting than that. It reads you your text messages and you tell it what you want it to send back. It does matter how you're distracted. Not looking at the road is what causes texting while driving accidents, not the actual distraction of having to think about what you're going to say. The human brain believe it or not can do two things at once, but if take your eyes off the road you are taking away your ability to drive. With this system your attention is never taken away from the road, any more than talking to a passenger.

+1.

Agreed. I would never want to go back. I've owned HID and Halogen cars at the same time and the difference is obvious at night.

Hey now! I only would purchase the manual, no auto for me...and I don't care for social media during my personal time. I prefer to concentrate on the road and the physical environment around me, not what everyone else is up to!:paddle:

I have aftermarket HID's for my tC...not because of visibility, but because I wanted the 6000k look since my tC is black.

This ^ anyone know?? :iono:

So you went with lower lumen output HIDs? Proper retrofit or just rebased/PnP stuff? If that's the case I can definately understand how you don't notice a difference with HIDs.