Seriously...TPMS?

[GolfAddict]

Another "good idea, bad law"....

 

[DK35vince]

There are also plenty of common situations where all you "smart" people could be alerted to a dangerous situation if you had TPMS, thus reducing risk to everybody.

I'm a car guy, check my tires, keep the pressures set correctly, and I've still had TPMS alert me to a problem that happened while I was driving. Without it I would have just rolled along, in an unsafe condition until it got so bad I could feel it, which might be too late.

You guys seem to think that checking your tires before you start driving solves everything, but it doesn't.

Moden radials often don't look low until they are really low, so if you're not checking with a gauge EVERY time you drive, you're fooling yourself.

TPMS is the only way to know that your tires are properly inflated while you're actually driving....you know, the important time.

If you want all the garbage the put on todays vehicles, that's fine. Your more than welcome to pay for them.
Personally I do not like antilock brakes.
I do not need TPMS.
I do not need traction control.
I sure don't want to be paying extra for any of it.

 

[tractorshopper]

The new fusion will lock out certain features when driving altogether. You can use the voice commands or nothing. Even if a passenger wanted to set GPS destination while driving, it cannot be done. Pretty much the radio controls are all that you can use on the touch screen while driving.

 

[Soundguy]

Even if a passenger wanted to set GPS destination while driving, it cannot be done. .

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stupid feature

 

[MikePA]

=stupid feature

Designed by a lawyer, no doubt.

 

[Soundguy]

or insurance co ( probably their lawyer.. )

 

[3930dave]

If you want all the garbage the put on todays vehicles, that's fine. Your more than welcome to pay for them.
Personally I do not like antilock brakes.
I do not need TPMS.
I do not need traction control.
I sure don't want to be paying extra for any of it.

One of the problems with all the "junk" now hanging off digital buses on cars today is failure modes. (TPMS sensors will be RF linked, so yes, this is a bit of a thread drift....).

When you have 30 nodes on a bus, and a hard crash (meaning a sensor fault), then all you can do is start unplugging sensor and modules until the bus comes back up. Ends up being just another reason to not own a modern car past 5 years old (almost like it's planned that way..... ), as paying shop rates to have dozens of sensors/modules just located and unplugged is real spendy - That's before you start paying for the actual repair !

And yes, if you haven't had the pleasure already.... some of these sensor hard crashes will take your engine down. As complexity is added, reliability goes down.

Rgds, D.

 

[DarkBlack]

Another "good idea, bad law"....

:thumbsup:

Next up: they are pushing for mandated back up cameras

 

[aczlan]

Next up: they are pushing for mandated back up cameras

With many of the vehicles today (2012 Hyundai SantaFe with 30' from the back bumper to where you can see with the rearview mirror, I am looking at you) its a necessity.

Aaron Z

 

[ruffdog]

What's to keep the idiot that doesn't want TPMS, or ignores the warning light, from crashing into someone's car and killing THEM? TPMS is to protect EVERYONE out there from the idiots. I know of a young couple and she drives a newer SUV and every day her tire was half flat. She said her husband fills the tire every day and her mechanic husband will fix it. So, a few weeks later, the pregnant woman is STILL driving around with a flat tire. You CAN'T fix STUPID.