Friday, 18 April 2014
2015 Subaru Outback
The 2015 Subaru Outback took a bow at the New York auto show on Thursday. It gets a new front fascia with a hexagonal grille, a standard CVT — not sure how we feel about that — and the same 9 or so inches of ground clearance. It’ll be in dealerships this summer.
The new fascia looks cleaner than the outgoing model, while the windshield base is pulled forward by 2 inches giving the Outback a more wagon-ish look. The headlights shrink a bit but the 3.6R now gets HID low beams. The fog lights and dark bumper cover stay.
Monday, 7 April 2014
Experts fear drivers will overrely on technology
WASHINGTON -- Mirrors have been a fixture of the automobile since the first Indianapolis 500, in 1911, when the engineer Ray Harroun outfitted his single-seat Marmon Wasp race car with a rearview mirror.
Rivals complained. They called Harroun reckless, saying he would put them in danger if he didn't use the same visibility aid as the rest of the field: a mechanic who rode shotgun and watched the rear.
Harroun ultimately won permission to use the mirror. Then he won the race. Soon, the riding mechanic was obsolete.
A century later, the auto industry is starting to look again at how drivers should look back. As federal regulators finalized a long-awaited mandate for rearview cameras last week, Tesla Motors and the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, automakers' main Washington lobbying group, filed a petition with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration seeking permission to replace side mirrors with cameras.
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