{"id":439065,"date":"2010-03-17T13:33:27","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T17:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gas2.org\/?p=6021"},"modified":"2010-03-17T13:33:27","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T17:33:27","slug":"are-cars-getting-too-complicated-for-their-own-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/439065","title":{"rendered":"Are Cars Getting Too Complicated For Their Own Good?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I still don’t know what is to blame for Toyota’s “unintended acceleration” problem. Doesn’t seem like Toyota or the government does either. But there has already been a lot of talk about\u00a0mandating an accelerator pedal override switch<\/a> on all new cars, yet another feature that further complicates cars.<\/p>\n

Not that I am against government regulation. Cars are safer than ever before, and traffic deaths are down as a result of it. But as lawmakers mandate safety features and car makers pile on the entertainment systems, cars get heavier and thus require more powerful engines. Even hybrid systems, while improving gas mileage, are adding further complications to an already complicated system. Shouldn’t we be trying to get back to basics?<\/p>\n

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I still don’t know what is to blame for Toyota’s “unintended acceleration” problem. Doesn’t seem like Toyota or the government does either. But there has already been a lot of talk about\u00a0mandating an accelerator pedal override switch on all new cars, yet another feature that further complicates cars. Not that I am against government regulation. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4081,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4081"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}