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      02-17-2020, 08:53 PM   #27
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Originally Posted by DETRoadster View Post
I wish OEMs would start implementing tech to assist parents. Even a lowly Toyota Corolla will do well over 100MPH. At those speeds I dont care what safety features you have, you're toast of the shit hits the fan and you're an inexperienced driver.

OEMs should allow for "new driver" mode where with a special key (like a valet key) or an app you limit HP, torque, acceleration, wheel spin, and top speed. Give parents a smartphone app that alerts them if their child driver goes outside bounds that are draws on a map or drives the car between midnight and 6:00 AM. Stuff like that. Certainly seems well within reach to be able to tailor the performance of the car to the driver so they can have all the modern safety features of a 2020 model car with all the performance of a 1970s shitbox.
Ford has that tech already.
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A manual transmission can be set to "comfort", "sport", and "track" modes simply by the technique and speed at which you shift it; it doesn't need "modes", modes are for manumatics that try to behave like a real 3-pedal manual transmission. If you can money-shift it, it's a manual transmission. "Yeah, but NO ONE puts an automatic trans shift knob on a manual transmission."
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