# 'Our Cars Are Trying to Keep Us Safe. Here's How.'

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/our-cars-are-trying-to-keep-us-safe-heres-how/146337>\
**Category:** Safety\
**Created:** [August 9, 2019, 12:23pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/our-cars-are-trying-to-keep-us-safe-heres-how/146337 "2019-08-09T12:23:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![RandomTroll](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/randomtroll/32/12184_2.png) [@RandomTroll](https://community.cartalk.com/u/RandomTroll)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 12:23pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/our-cars-are-trying-to-keep-us-safe-heres-how/146337/1 "2019-08-09T12:23:37Z")

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[https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/08/smarter-living/our-cars-are-trying-to-keep-us-safe-heres-how.html](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/08/smarter-living/our-cars-are-trying-to-keep-us-safe-heres-how.html) You can read the article by right-clicking on the link, saving the file, reading the local copy you just made - or don’t.

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**Author:** ![VOLVO-V70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8e8cbc/32.png) [@VOLVO-V70](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VOLVO-V70)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 1:46pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/our-cars-are-trying-to-keep-us-safe-heres-how/146337/2 "2019-08-09T13:46:00Z")

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> [@RandomTroll](#):
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> or don’t.

Or don’t - my choice but will that reduce your commission.

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**Author:** ![RandomTroll](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/randomtroll/32/12184_2.png) [@RandomTroll](https://community.cartalk.com/u/RandomTroll)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2019, 5:50pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/our-cars-are-trying-to-keep-us-safe-heres-how/146337/3 "2019-08-10T17:50:02Z")

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> [@VOLVO\_V70](#):
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> will that reduce your commission.

In case you missed the irony, I don’t get a commission for anything. I don’t even have a subscription. I browse with lynx, a browser whose accesses [nytimes.com](http://nytimes.com) doesn’t even count.

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**Author:** ![vipergg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/50afbb/32.png) [@vipergg](https://community.cartalk.com/u/vipergg)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2019, 7:18pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/our-cars-are-trying-to-keep-us-safe-heres-how/146337/4 "2019-08-10T19:18:38Z")

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Just more expensive stuff to break and go wrong and cost of fortune to fix. Get me from point A to point B simply and reliably without all the extra garbage .