2018 Safety Sense

I can’t believe Toyota is including Safety Sense standard on all Tacomas in 2018. It looks like for no increase in price over the 2017s. That’s a real plus. If I had known that before buying my 2017 I would definitely have waited. Adaptive cruise control alone is awsome, especially compared to my 17 with no cruise. I’ve had safety tech on three of my last three non truck vehicles and it’s definitely worth it.

 

There was a significant cost increase across all models.

 

Just over $1000 increase.

 

LOL. I just bought my 17 and drove 5hrs to another dealer to get the color and options I wanted in a 17 instead of a 18. I specifically didn't want the new safety sense.

Hodakaguy

 

Plus save yourself some cash over the price increase too!

 

Yep

 

Safety Sense... LMA0!!! So millennials, and cell phone addicted dickheads can drive around with their heads stuck even further up their asses???

 

Not enough to regret not getting a 2018. I have it, don’t mind it, but could live without it if it was removed.

 

No millennial here. Turning 60 next month and I'm enjoying all the new safety features on my '18. They can be turned off if you don't want them, but I sure don't mind having some back up for possible mistakes. I almost almost smushed an idiot wearing dark clothes running across in front of me recently on an unlit road, and the safety sense in that situation alone could have possibly altered both our lives.
Besides, the adaptive cruise is the shit.

 

It’s what’s keeping your old ass on the road and out of the nursing home

 

67 years old. Have had Eyesight on my last three Subaru’s and think it's great. Adaptive cruise control on highway trips is wonderful. The other safety features are great too. I especially like the auto braking on reverse. As I mentioned in another thread, I've already banged up my new Taco's rear bumper. Been driving for over 50 years and only had one accident involving another car in that time that was my fault(and that was debatable) but shit does happen. I appreciate the extra help that tech offers. Not every one uses their truck to chase around forest roads or rock crawl. Some of us just use it for the specific tool it can be for a certain job. Nothing wrong with making a tool safer and better. IMHO. Let me also mention, my best friend was killed three years ago when he fell asleep at the wheel and his Dodge Challenger went airborne on an interstate highway hitting a car in the opposite lane and killing two women. He was on his way to see me so we could start a road trip to Glacier National Park. Just maybe something like lane assist might have saved three lives. I miss that guy every day. He was going to be my road trip partner. We would have had some good times.

 

Easy to turn off. I'm loving it, especially radar cruise control on hwy. So it's not bothered me a bit. When I need it off, I simply turn it off.

 

Wow. So sorry about you losing your friend. Great way to drive home some perspective and hopefully help others get past some of the macho posturing so prevalent on this site.

 

I can't even stand traction control. Much less all the other nanny tech. I actually think some of that tech is dangerous because it's not always predictable.
I just want to jump in and drive. Not sit there holding buttons or scrolling menus to turn off bloatware.
According to some old engineering handbooks I inherited, engineers for military aircraft in the 1950s seem to have understood the idea of alarm fatigue but whether they applied the concepts any better back then, I don't know. Alarm fatigue is either foreign to most current day engineers or they get pushed around by marketing people that love shiny, blinky, buzzing things. Good distraction aids.

 

You make a valid you make a valid point. I think it depends to a degree on how the tech is designed. I have stated I like the Subaru Eyesight approach. It does not seem overbearing or distracting to me. However, I did own a top of the line 2018 Chrysler Pacifica for a very brief time. The safety tech, while presenting the same set of features and more, was so convoluted I found it uncomfortable. The touch screen used to launch everything was a nightmare. So, it depends.

 

I traded in my Taurus SHO with all the safety goodies and was glad to get my truck without any of them. The adaptive cruise control let me get a little too complacent on long trips and have a little too much faith in it. The cruise control on that was aggressive when it came to slow down for another car as well. The blind spot and cross traffic alerts were nice, but the car had 95k miles on it when I traded it in and those systems were finally starting to crap out occasionally. I bought my truck to last me for a good long while so the less technological items to go wrong the better.

 

I have been wanting a 3rd gen since it came out and was looking at left over 17’s. I rented a 2018 Sport for a day and put 150 miles on it day and night. I disliked the nanny tech stuff and surely wasnt gonna pay extra for it. I bought a 17 Limited the same week and had to drive 4 hrs to get it. Saved a lot of money and got what i wanted, too. I am happy!

 

I have a 2016. I wish this tech was available back in 2015 when I bought mine. Mine is the same generation vehicle and I want to see if I can buy the parts and flash the updated firmware to get dynamic cruise control, that is so sweet! Anyone know how to look up the new safety sense parts? they only list standard gaskets and headlights on the website. and yes i know there are car mod regulations by uncle sam, first I want to see if it is possible.

 

I highly doubt you could add it to your current truck, would be easier and cheaper to just trade your truck for a 2018.

 

Only had it less then a week but I tested it out and so far so good. Cruise is awesome the lane departure did give some odd beeps but the lanes were off to so over all it s good. One thing I don’t understand is why are blind spot Monitor not part of TSS?