I agree- I don't think we'll see him playing competitively again. In some future time, perhaps some exhibitions, charity events, etc... At some point, taking the initial drive to kick off the Masters.

I'm sure the lawyers are buzzing, on all kinds of things and all kinds of angles. I thought the officer at the press conference did a good job deferring the investigation questions to that team for "later" and only giving 'definitive' answers of his interaction and observations from the scene.

 

The genesis still had the golf promotional emblems on the side doors, from what I read he hit a median going down hill at a high rate of speed. He must have careened and then swung across two lanes of on-coming roadway and down the embankment. . If anyone was coming in the opposing lanes they may have all been dead, good thing there was no traffic at that time of morning.

 

If he was going fast enough to get that out of shape, then it is his fault, not the cars fault. Of course some ambulance chasing attorneys, knowing the publicity this will get, will likely still milk some money out of the manufacturer some way. I just hate that when companies put in drivers aids, we suddenly blame those for not saving someone who was driving poorly to begin with. They are added safety features and should not be a replacement for not driving stupidly. Unless they can say that the dirvers aids suddenly became HAL and took over the car and caused it to crash. It is the same as driving into a wall at 100mph and suing because the airbags did not save the passengers life.

 

Levi

 

I hate most "drivers aids" in a car. Just today I was driving our Mazda CX-5 when the car in front of me (by a good 500 feet) slowed down to turn. The Mazda did a near complete panic stop about 100 feet behind the turning vehicle AFTER he had already turned and was off the road. Lucky there was no one behind be or there may have been an accident! I have completely turned that crap off. I was taught how to drive and just don't need it.

 

argh, I hate that, it happens to me often. It tends to happen to me mainly as cars in front of me are turning off the road and getting out of my way. It also sometimes happens when I am changing lanes to pass on the highway and approaching a vehicle, as soon as I am checking my blind spot to change lanes the car wants to brake hard. If there are people behind me I will pound the gas pedal and force the car to move forward as soon as I sense it is braking in error, just so the other cars don't ram me from behind

 

He was close to having his one leg amputated, but they have saved it for now. That is one serious injury, I can't see anyone coming back to sports level from that kind of injury, and his previous back injuries will likely be made much worse.

 

This isn’t the first car he’s totaled. Maybe he should have had a chauffeur.

 

I am not a tech fan of Hyundai/Genesis. And to be honest i'm not a fan of active steering assist.
Call me a control freak. My more recent Mercs still squawk at me about impending danger.
When I know it is merely a traffic sign ahead of me but the road will swing to left before I get there.
Take that same miscalculation and give the control input to a the steering system\.
Come on engifineer, you took controls right?

Managing human factors is brutal. A little lapse of attention, a bad sensor decision about impending doom, the system pushes it out, he fights to recover.
and buh bye.

 

Not sure if it's exactly the same feature but we immediately turned of the lane assist on my Jeep. It really changed the feel of the handling of the car. We have sensors, so far those are on, and I do like the little arrows in the side view mirrors for the blind spots. Rick tried the adaptive cruise control today. So far he has a positive opinion of it.