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Thats great. It's still not L4 or L5 certified, which means the system is fundamentally incapable of "full self driving".
Doesn't it mean exactly what the words say? You get in the car, tell it where to go and take a nap while it drives there. If the vehicle requires any further human input it's assisted driving.
. The only service I have needed in 2+ years of ownership for my Y, a tech came to my house and did the service in my garage. I rotate tires myself since my Dad has a 2-post car lift. My biggest complaint for my Y is how Tesla did the access for the Cabin Air Filter which is dumb. This was a little bit off-set that it only cost me $80 for a tech to come to my house and change it out and it is a 2-year cycle for the Y cabin air filter instead of 1-year I am used to for most cars. Interesting enough it looks like the HEPA filter has better access for it's 3-year service. Currently 34k miles on my Y and I expect I will have to put new tires on the Y sometime this year, keeping a close eye on the tread but so far appears to be wearing fairly evenly.
I am very interested in the BYD LFP blade batteries. A lot of the BYD BEV's look great.
My #1 concern about Chinese EV's is the implications of Chinese government ambitions around Taiwan and how that could impact BYD's sales outside of China.
As far as service nightmare, I have long list of complaints about my Nissan Leaf. Nissan still doesn't have a fix for a potential battery defect recall causing overheating and fire risk during L3 DC charging. Recall has been open for 1+ year with no fix. Good thing is since my oldest daughter just uses it as a College commuter car, we don't need DC Charging. The people that regularly used DC charging for their Leaf, I guess they are SOL. The seat sensor has gone out twice on my Leaf for the front passenger seat which has been a $1k fix both times, not covered by my extended warranty
No. My limited experiences with driver assist features on rental cars were not pleasant. The first time I encountered lane assist, I swerved to avoid a deer in my lane and the f'in' car tried to pull me back into the lane. Playing around with other implementations of lane keepers had the car drifting back and forth from white line to white line. If I wanted that, I'd pop some opioids and do it myself. Adaptive cruise control makes no sense. If I am overtaking the car ahead of me, I would be planning a pass, not matching its speed.
Adaptive cruise control is for long highway drives. Useful only in that scenario. You can always accelerate and the cruise control goes away or resumes after you let go of the gas pedal, depending on implementation.
The 6th gen was the Honda's first Accord to have a cabin air filter. It was considered a "half hour" job, but it literally took me several hours of annoying work behind the glove box. I did it once, and never again.
Interesting.
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