Andy
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Jon, you are not alone in this belief. I had a 2015 Yukon Denali with collision avoidance technology in it. It would hit the brakes if it thought you were going to collide with something in front of you. Only problem was that it was not smart enough to not try to stop when it did not need to. There is a street I travel on fairly often that has a railroad crossing in it. When I would come up to the crossing from one direction, the Yukon would hit the brakes fairly hard and then release them. From the other direction, nothing happened. I finally figured out that it saw the rails and thought it was another vehicle that was stopped. The fix? I turned that feature off.
I don’t need a nanny in my car. Just like I don’t need the government telling me how to live my life. I am fine doing it myself.
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Clearly I am afraid of technology. Part of the reason is strongly related to my fears of losing skill when I was flying. Because of that fear I hand flew a lot of my flight, and allowed the autopilot to only fly 3 instrument approaches for me in over 35 years of flying. By almost always hand flying the critical phases of my flights I stayed proficient and was never concerned about if i would be skillful enough if the autopilot failed.
The same attitude applies to depending on the technology that will allow a vehicle to self drive. We are now seeing the erosion of pilot skills as the current group of pilots has only experienced highly automated planes. Safety went way up when the new technology was introduced because the pilots that first used the planes that had features such as auto-land were used to hand flying planes in all conditions. Now the pilots have lost the skills and there are many examples of how planes crash when the systems shut down and the pilots lack the skills to handle a perfectly good airplane.
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I’m with Andy – no matter how good I think I am, I’m not quicker than the Mercedes collision system … if the situation arises, I know the car will stop faster than I ever could. Because it will recognize the closing distance faster than me. And I’m not old yet (at least…. not compared to you guys!)
Could it fail? Sure…. but I should have hit the brake myself. All of the current systems are a great extra backup…. but you’re still the driver…. there isn’t any fully automated driving yet (for us consumers anyway.) Without a system… there is no backup.
I’d rather have the backup than not. I suppose it’s no different than I’d rather have a spare than not.
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I agree, we have been looking for something for about 9 month now. I know that the web posting are some what behind. I call Dealerships all over the country and inquiry about Coaches for sale. 90% of the time the coach I’m interested in is sold, so I do waste a lot of time looking.
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Anybody that lives or has lived in the western NY snowbelt hates snow and rarely takes pictures to remind them of the inconvenience due to snow, the rotting of cars due to salt used to melt snow, the extra time required because of snow, and all of the dollars associated with plowing, insulating, damage to eaves, winter clothes, etc. probably won’t willingly want photos to remind them of how it sucks to not only live in the snow belt but to pay huge taxes to NY because they live in the snow belt.
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Jimmy … the snow must be beautiful. Post a picture.
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Congrats on your new Venture.
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I had my original MiFi fail and replaced it with a new one. The new one was called a Jet Pack.
Same 5 G limit but after using it for a week my usage reached about 4 G. I went through a lot of gyrations with Verizon but finally convinced them the problem was theirs. They blamed everything from me watching movies to allowing computer updates to the full moon for the high data use.
They ultimately agreed there was something wrong when the data usage jumped about 1 G when the thing wasn’t even turned on.
They replaced the tiny little “card” and gave me a free month to compensate for the excessive usage and I am back to normal. I have no clue what adds usage, but I am on my laptop at least 5 times a day checking email, reading posts on this site and responding, looking at and posting on at least 5 other sites, and “surfing the web” to check fuel costs, routing, getting information pertaining to responses to posts etc. The typical usage from when I connect to when I log out is .1 to .3 G.
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My Verizon jet pack has a 15 gb limit. My iPad and I phone uses it mainly because my wireless printer uses it’s wifi. This month is typical in that I received notice that I reached my data limit by the 13th of the month and it will not reset until the 1st. I use the Internet to check 8-10 sites daily and manage my email 2-3 hours daily. I very rarely watch videos and have never tried Netflix. I just have never understood why my data usage is so high.
My guess there are some settings or apps that are set incorrectly. Problem is I have no idea what I should be looking for. Any suggestions?
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What’s a “land line?”
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How would you describe the average age of the folks in this discussion Al?
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Andy,
I’m not sure you answered my question about how much data you’re allowed on the FMCA program.
Unlimited data or the 24G data is for the actual device, in my case an iPhone X. Now, when I use my iPhone X as a hotspot for my Mac or Apple TV, Verizon allows me 15G of 4G, before they throttle my “hotspot” to 3G for the rest of the month. However, my actual iPhone X data does get unlimited data for the month, although I believe it could be subject to throttling if I surpass 50G in one month.
TMobile has an “unlimited” plan for two lines for folks over 55 for $60 per month. But your hotspot is 3G unless you upgrade to another plan.
So does FMCA include LTE data for your hotspot in their plan or is it 3G like TMobile.
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I sure don’t see any insult and I’m one of the old farts. They have a long way to go to attract younger members, just look at the magazine, young folks aren’t interested in a Jitterbug.
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Don’t know which pump Dick has. But if it has a failed pressure switch, could it produce > 75psi?
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Even if you had to replace the valve, the only thing that may be in your way would be the filters. No big deal!