Daily Archives: February 2, 2015


2015 Toyota Camry XSE – It’s Not So Beige Anymore

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Over the years certain brands of cars have become inexorably associated with colors. Regardless of what is sprayed on in the paint shop, a Ferrari is always a deep scarlet red at heart. Anything built on the north side of the English Channel should be a dark green. High performance cars wearing a three-pointed star or four rings are silver arrows. The Toyota Camry? Beige through and through.

Beige is not an offensive hue. Quite the opposite in fact, it may well be the best camouflage color in the known universe. Instead of garish swirlies that are guaranteed to attract attention, automakers should just paint all their prototypes beige and spy photographers would never even see them.

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This is why you never see self-driving car prototypes playing in the snow 1

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This is why you never see self-driving car prototypes playing in the snow

We're a lot farther from general use self-driving driving cars than those in Silicon Valley would like you to believe.  The radar sensor in the front and the rear camera are completely covered. While the snow was falling, I had to turn off the parking assist because the falling snow was triggering the ultrasonic sensors causing the system to beep continuously while there was nothing around the vehicle.?

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