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Originally Posted by coolman
A feature that can save lives is far from a gimmick. Unless you've seen what I'm taking about first hand you won't get it. But there are clearly people that do or they wouldn't have developed it in the first place. I guess people used to think that seat belts and air bags were gimmicks at one time too.
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Seat Belts and Air Bags are directly related to the automobile, and are there for when things do go wrong... not to prevent them from happening. Seat Belts and Air Bags apply to 100% of the people who drive/ride in the vehicle. You can attempt to make the comparison, but these are not apples to apples comparisons.
A gimmick, in my opinion, is something that applies to a fraction of the people, meaning the rest of the people would never have a use for it. OnStar, in my book, was a gimmick (that hasn't really worked out.)
Teaching people that Technology will do the work for them; conditioning people to rely on the technology... is not a good road to go down. You say it saves lives... what happens when that technology fails? Hint, read the article I linked above, 228 passengers died.