J.D. Power and Associates Servey

[alonsorules8]

I just received an official J. D Power and Associates survey for my new Versa and was wondering how many other have received one as well.

[alonsorules8]

It takes about 20 min. to fill out the survey. If you get one of thier surveys they ask you questions about everything from your buying experience to repair/ warranty repairs to build quality.

[bulld0g]

cool thanks for the heads up

[Ever Victorious]

I've received them on my Kias, but not on either Versa. I sent them both in, and also got two follow up surveys on the Optima.

[jfanaselle]

I didn't get a JD Power survey, but I got an email the other day from Morpace, Inc. that was an official survey from Nissan regarding advanced features that they were considering on new vehicles.

Some of these features were aweseome! It would tell me what the featue was called and describe it to me, then I would have to say whether or not I would desire to have it on a vehicle if cost were not a factor. They did this for about 40 or 50 new features and then they showed me two vehicle packages and asked me which would be more desirable (very similar line-ups to a Versa S and Versa SL).

Then they showed me potential prices for the features and asked me to select which ones I would pay for and add to the vehicle package that I had chosen. It showed me a deatail of what I had chosen, then it showed me all of the features again with different prices (after intentionally making me forget what the prices were the first time around) and made me choose another lineup. Obviously, they were trying to determine whether people would be willing to pay what it would cost them to make it.

One of the features was something that I've been thinking should be on vehicles for years now! I've always wanted to try and patent the idea, but since Nissan is already considering it, I guess I can spill the beans. The featue is a brake light that gets brighter and larger as you step harder on the brake pedal. This will cut down on rear-end collisions in traffic, because you'll know exactly how hard the vehicle in front of you is braking.

Another feature was an intelligent cruise control which uses sensors in the front bumper to determine when you're getting too close to the car in front of you and adjust your speed accordingly. Then it would resume normal speed once the vehicle in front of has sped up or moved out of the way.

I could go on for hours about the features... some were really off the wall, but some were very practical and should have been implemented years ago! Did anyone else get this survey?

[BBISHOPPCM]

The brake light intensity thing was a Volvo idea about 10 years ago, only their brake light was supposed to flash if you hit the brake hard enough

[jfanaselle]

Yeah, and I've seen aftermarket ones that can do the same thing. But that's just annoying and doesn't really indicate to someone quick enough that you're braking hard because by the time you see it's flashing, you could have lost 30 feet or so of stopping distance.

My idea was to have a 3rd brake light which consists of several LEDs in a "bar" formation, either on a rear spoiler or in a rear window. As you pressed the brake pedal harder, the bar would get wider. If someone was simply riding their brake pedal, it would only light up the single LED in the middle, but as they pressed harder, it would widen out. If they jammed on their brakes abrubptly, it would stretch accross the lenth of your spoiler or back window which would immediately notify the people behind you that you were braking hard.

Nissan's idea (according to the survey) was to have a circular light where the circumference of the circle would increase and the light would get brighter as you pressed harder on the pedal. Similar, but probably still not as effective as my idea.

[MinisterofDOOM]

My idea was to have a 3rd brake light which consists of several LEDs in a "bar" formation, either on a rear spoiler or in a rear window. As you pressed the brake pedal harder, the bar would get wider. If someone was simply riding their brake pedal, it would only light up the single LED in the middle, but as they pressed harder, it would widen out. If they jammed on their brakes abrubptly, it would stretch accross the lenth of your spoiler or back window which would immediately notify the people behind you that you were braking hard.

Nissan's idea (according to the survey) was to have a circular light where the circumference of the circle would increase and the light would get brighter as you pressed harder on the pedal. Similar, but probably still not as effective as my idea.

These are both great ideas.

Mercedes Benz has actually been trying to get the US to change laws (regarding flashing red lights on cars, which are of course "emergency vehicle" indicators) so that they can use their flashing brake lights here for a few years.Personally, I agree with you, I don't think flashing is the right route. I can see it causing more problems that it solves.Variable intensity on it's own isn't great either, because you can't really have a good frame of reference.

I can see Cadillac implementing your "bar" idea in their car-wide CHMSLs easily. It'd be a nice "lux-safety" sales point as well as a nice feature.

Another feature was an intelligent cruise control which uses sensors in the front bumper to determine when you're getting too close to the car in front of you and adjust your speed accordingly. Then it would resume normal speed once the vehicle in front of has sped up or moved out of the way.

Nissan and other companies have been using this for years...

[Mubbly]

I have seen a couple of cars while out on the freeway with the flashing brake feature. While behind them, I found it really distracting & alarming. I really can't see it helping much at all. The brake light growing with brake pressure is a good idea, though.

[jfanaselle]

So nobody else got this survey? I was just wondering what everyone else thought of all of the features. There was a feature that would use sensors to look for road signs (speed limit, stop, etc) and show them to you on a screen (ususally an in-dash navigation system or similar).

There was also a feature that would sound a warning if you activated your turn signal but there was a vehicle or object in your blind spot.

Not all of them were safety features, though. There was one that would automatically detect foul odors coming through your vent and automatically switch to recirculating air and activate a secondary microfilter to get the smell out. I printed up all of them because some were awesome, but I don't have the sheet right in front of me now.

[centracore]

So nobody else got this survey? I was just wondering what everyone else thought of all of the features. There was a feature that would use sensors to look for road signs (speed limit, stop, etc) and show them to you on a screen (ususally an in-dash navigation system or similar).

There was also a feature that would sound a warning if you activated your turn signal but there was a vehicle or object in your blind spot.

Not all of them were safety features, though. There was one that would automatically detect foul odors coming through your vent and automatically switch to recirculating air and activate a secondary microfilter to get the smell out. I printed up all of them because some were awesome, but I don't have the sheet right in front of me now.

If you could post those without getting in trouble jfanaselle that would be wicked! I love to read about stuff like that and would be very interested in seeing what we can expect in the coming years.

[jfanaselle]

Done. I created a new post. Here's a link:

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