[Spuds]

Originally Posted by Irace86.2.0

You could drive the car from the passenger seat without the rope, steering only when necessary, which will be far more often than a Tesla, especially if your car doesn't drive straight and the road is not straight, so how is Telsa worse in this situation? Because you have to be more engaged to stay alive, or said differently, because your death is more imminent in the Suburban if you don't?

I already said they could do more. I'm sure it wouldn't be hard to make the system fool proof. In general, I don't think manufactures have a duty to prevent people from being idiots with their possessions. I don't understand why you or others are special pleading about Tesla. I can get in my car right now and ram it into anyone and Subaru isn't doing anything to stop me. Just because they can act doesn't mean they are obligated to act, no different than how manufactures aren't mandated, nor do they voluntarily limit speed limits to something reasonable or put driver monitoring into cars or make cars safer at following distances or many things they easily or expensively could do. Why can cars continue to be operated with seatbelts not engaged or allowed to drive away or operate with a door open or ajar? In fact, no one is complaining that Tesla allows the car to go over 100mph or that it will accelerate in 3 seconds to 60 or that it might follow too close to a car in front of it. Should gun manufactures be required to have finger sensors or combinations on the guns, so an unintended user can't use it? Should sugar packets have diabetes warning labels on them?

Ummm...

https://www.subaru.com/engineering/eyesight.html

Subaru EyeSight
AN EXTRA SET OF EYES ON THE ROAD AND, IF NEED BE, AN EXTRAFOOT ON THE BRAKE WHEN YOU DRIVE.

And, while not the same thing as diabetes...

https://www.p65warnings.ca.gov/

Proposition 65 requires businesses to provide warnings to Californians about significant exposures to chemicals that cause cancer, birth defects or other
reproductive harm.