all right welcome back and we have eric peters on the line epa autos dot com if you're interested in

liberty and mobility and you want to be interested in both of those you can't go to a better place

than epa autos and if you're in the market for a car he will give you some practical car reviews as a matter

of fact i thought it was interesting i i saw that eric had just um uh reviewed the new mazda meata

and um i i know that eric likes a miata i i love my miata, but he was also, because it's the driving experience,

you know, but I know, Eric, you just had an article that came out, and you were talking about

that very issue in terms of when a cyst becomes insist, that's the title of the article,

and you use the Mazda Miata of all things as an

example. Tell us a little bit about that. Well, it's kind of a barometer for what's happening. And by

that I mean this embedding in every new car literally of this, as they put it, advanced driver

assistance technology, which is essentially preempting and

parenting and controlling you and second guessing you're driving and even to the extent of putting

it in a driver's car like the miata and mada as you know uh only sells the automatic transmission

in the highest trim so in the two lower trims or three trims you can can't even get an automatic. So clearly, this is a vehicle for people who want to drive and do not need assistance, just like you and I don't need a wheelchair to be able to get around because we can walk. And yet it's in there. And so it begs the question, why is it in there? And it's because Maza and every other manufacturer are anticipating the next round of mandates, which we've already been apprised of that the federal government is going to require that all new cars have this stuff in them. And then that begs another question, well, why do they want to do that? And they want to do that because the end goal is to take the steering wheel out of your hand and take your foot off the gas pedal and the brake pedal and to turn these things into

autonomous as they're put meaning controlled by the Borg by the corporate government hive and that you are a meat sack to be transported around in rather than a driver

Tell us a little bit about what what have they put in terms of driver assist stuff on the Miata of all things?

Well, it has what they call collision mitigation technology,

and each manufacturer has its own trademark or brand name for what it is,

but it's essentially all the same thing.

There are sensors in the car that decide it's time to break,

even if there's no reason

to break. And so you'll be driving along, and let's say a good example is that up ahead of you,

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