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Uncle Joe's Makeover Diary 2.0

AML has nearly 100k build sheets in our archive.
I pulled a list of safety features and the counts of how many different varieties there are for that feature.
  • ---Feature Name: # of varieties---
  • Automatic Emergency Braking: 201*
  • Parking Sensors: 106
  • Blind Spot Monitor: 83
  • Adaptive Cruise Control: 77 (+ 33 dual-mapped with Autopilot)
  • Backup Camera: 72
  • Pedestrian Detection: 66 (+ 37 from AEB dual-map)
  • Automatic Parking: 66
  • Lane Keep Assist: 63
  • Traffic Sign Recognition: 52
  • Electronic Stability Control: 40
  • 360-Degree Camera: 35
  • Rear Cross-Traffic Alert: 25 (+ 38 from AEB dual-map)
  • Park Assist: 32
  • Collision Detection: 23
  • Premium Brakes / ABS: 19
  • Lane Departure Warning: 19
  • Side View Cameras: 16
  • Safe Exit Assist: 12
  • Autopilot: 7 (+ 33 from ACC dual-map)
  • Digital Rearview Mirror: 6
  • Front View Camera: 5
  • LED Daytime Running Lights: 3
  • Night Vision: 1
Shoppers have questions, and sales reps are expected to have the answers. NOT.
How in the hell does a rep confidently deliver the car with all of this ADAS stuff installed?


*(+ 37 dual-mapped with Pedestrian Detection, + 38 dual-mapped with RCTA)
 
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Joe Pistell, formerly of Cars.com, relaunches his 'Makeover Diary' series to share automotive digital merchandising experiments and strategy, inviting community challenge and debate. Discussions range from practical tips like showing CarPlay in vehicle photos, to AI-generated detailer imagery, to Carvana and CarMax's superior vehicle merchandising loops that focus on sales productivity metrics rather than lead volume. The key insight is that fragmented dealer website vendors lag far behind vertically integrated players like Carvana, whose tight engineering-to-sales-floor feedback loop enables rapid, conversion-focused iteration.

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