She claims the the auto-brake system went Rogue.
Auto braking is already in use in the trucking industry and phantom activation a problem.
If turning and their is a large object at the side of the road, it will apply brakes.
A large dip in the road that puts the truck on a downward incline will also activate the brakes when the sensor detects to approaching upside of the dip.
Duct tape is the cure for the phantom sensor activation.
I hope there is a shut off switch. Seems the MCAS system on the max 8 needed one.
My last truck was a bare bones 3/4 ton crew cab Chevy. Roll up windows and vinyl floors. Basic. Man, I wish I had kept that monster.
It needed some 3 thousand dollars worth of front end work as it had been an oil field work truck.
I sold it rather than fix it. But in hindsight - I should have kept it. Better than spending some 50,000 bucks for a new one. Which of course I did not do.
While in a new Suburban on the freeway, you can’t change lanes to pass very well............ you pull out and mash the gas while the burb is suddenly mashing the brakes.
“vast majority of cases it works, but it is not perfect.”
So you get the same result as when the system is not installed.
Most of this technology should not be standard, but optional, if the customer asks for it.
Instead they are forcing the payment for and adoption of a lot of unnecessary technology by making it standard.
What about the person following behind one of these cars?
Also, once the brakes are on, doesn’t it make it difficult to steer?
I have autobraking on my 57 Bel Air. When I see an auto too close in front, I brake.
My 2018 Honda CRV has auto braking. Just after I bought it a car pulled out in front of me and my Honda stopped itself and avoided the crash. I was impressed! However, a few months ago I was driving on I-5 in Washington State when the car suddenly braked although there were no cars or other hazards in front of me. I asked someone at the dealership about it and he replied, “Oh yeah, that happens from time-to-time.”
All this “auto-”stuff is garbage and downright dangerous. There are FAR too many variables to not only process but even SEE to get it right.
I HATE the “keyless” ignitions. People have died from these cars not being turned off. Lesser than that, they’re a real PITA begging for all kinds of trouble.
Long story short...I rear ended a guy stopped at a light while using it. I only hit him at about 7MPH and nobody had anything more than a scratch but it still cost me.
This is the antithesis of survival of the fittest.
If we keep making things safer and safer, how are we going to thin the gene pool of the idiots of the world?
I was driving a big rig equiped with an anti collision sytstem when it was trigged by a garbage bag blowing accross the New Jersey Turnpike. Nothing makes a trucker’s @$$ pucker like having all wheels lock up at 70mph.
Please, please dear Lord, when someone is hurt by this garbage let me be on the jury. If just one auto manufacturer could be put into bankruptcy by the settlement, the others would grow a tiny set of testicles and stop letting the various insurance “institutes” cram this crap down our throats.
And YES, people will be killed by this.
In insurance speak, “well if it prevents a 100,000 accidents, but it kills 10 people, that’s still a good ratio.” If someone in my family is one of the ten, I will have a new life’s mission.
Automatic emergency braking will be standard in most cars in 2022. The technology is expected to... ADD 1000’s and 1000’s of dollars to already expensive cars ladened with all kinds of useless expensive crap
I have the feature on my new 2019 Toyota Corolla. Fortunately, it can be turned off, which I have done. Car manufacturers should ALWAYS allow the driver to be the final decision to override a “feature”.
The first 39-car pileup caused by these and our tort bar will pick their bones clean.
I never had any of mine hit the binders for no reason (only had one case where a car jumped a light and came from a side street and the auto braking hit them a millisecond before my foot hit the brake), but have had some initial warning beeps for no visible reason that didn’t result in automatic braking...they say some stray RADAR signals can cause the system to wake up.
I had a car with the adaptive cruise control that would automatically slow and speed you up if you were in traffic with cruise on...had a case where the car wanted to accelerate through a Camaro that was ahead of me....all I can figure is it had a RADAR spoofing device that made it invisible to my car.
They can all be handy if one doesn’t decide to do a mental fuzz out and rely/trust in them instead of paying attention.
The ghost in the car stopped short.