Mercedes to add heated seatbelts as a safety feature—it kind of makes sense.

[leakyroof]

Yes... then when merging on the highway... if you floor the throttle to equalize speed before merging... your premiums go up. But if you move in front of faster moving traffic causing the car behind you to violently brake... his premiums go up.

Or someone doesn't yield and you hit the brakes hard to prevent a crash > your premiums go up. Don't break as hard > get in crash > other car's premiums go up.

Retarded incentives both ways.

Wasn't there a huge scandal once where car manufacturers sold data to insurance companies? With some guy that was welcomed by his cat on the drive way that his car would register as a "near collision with small object" and hence his premiums going up..

I think Mercedes got busted doing that. You can probably Google or search for which car makers have been found out to engage in the practice.

 

[Packard]

There is an oval exit/entrance to route 81 from the Taconic Parkway.

The car on the Parkway has the right of way over the car entering the Parkway. But the car exiting needs to slow down, and the car entering needs to speed up.

So, if I follow the rules of the road and I get ahead of the car entering the Parkway, then I slow down, while the car behind me wants to speed up. It makes no sense. So I always give up my right of way and get behind the car entering the Parkway. That way he can freely accelerate as required and I can freely slow down as required.

Sometimes (just once in a while) your brain has to come into play when driving.

Addendum: I see I was mistaken about the shape of the exit. The lower loop enters the Taconic and the upper loop exits.

 

[Coen]

So I always give up my right of way and get behind the car entering the Parkway.

I do that when someone is tailgating me without a valid reason. If they like my car's bumper so much they can look at it with lower speed / standing still too.