I won’t buy a new car for this and a hundred other things they think I need added to every car.
I’m still not used to the lane keeping feature on my new Jeep. Feels like control is being taken away and I reflexively fight it.
Vehicle computer module hackers will figure out how to disable it.
Personally I don’t even like anti-lock brakes. Can’t stand getting pushback from the brake pedal. Rear anti-lock on pickup trucks isn’t too bad though.
With all this automatic stuff, how are people going to learn to drive to start with?
Driver-assist auto-braking at present has some oops moments but will get better year by year as the automobile engineers tweak it to improve it.
I plan to buy a new SUV in 2020 and will get the one with all the driver-assist safety features then available. I’m an older driver and my oops moments are self-inflicted so a bit of help will be OK.
I don't need it deciding to brake as I drive twisty, two-lane roads, and have it react to oncoming traffic in its proper lane.
Around 100 people a day die in car wrecks. The vast overwhelming majority are driver inattention, irresponsible levels of speeding, aggression, distraction, drowsy, drunk, etc. Automation ends the ones where people slam into parked cars, drift off into the oncoming lanes. blow through red lights, etc. Automation deals successfully with nearly all of these. The few failures won’t be 10% of the human failures. But we all hear about aunt Bee who claims her new car confuses her.
There is no better feeling than driving your 1970 BMW 2002, or your convertible Mustang on a mountain road, shifting gears, windows or top down. But don’t delude yourself into thinking you are safer. We would all laugh at an engineering firm that refused to use computers and did everything with paper and pencil. But in cars, everyone is convinced they have the focus of a panther and the reflexes and fast thinking mind of a 23 year old fighter pilot.
The truth is out there.
Gotta run, there is simply too much Luddite ignorance on the thread to address beyond that.
If we outlawed no-fault auto, we’d have a lot fewer accidents....
Scotty Kilmer on YouTube had a video on this.
in essence brakes should NOT be controlled by electronics of any kind.
You know, I do like fuel injection and the computer figuring out engine efficiency, but I really don’t like throttle by wire.
But, I am simply and basically afraid of steering by wire and do not want it.
And now “they” are going to standardize/mandate auto-braking, too?!?
Get off my yard ... and get the hell out of my car, too!
Sounds like something that will create more accidents than it averts.
And there's no way for the dealer to shut it off?
My wife’s Rav4 has Toyota’s safety system. The system is both good and weird. It braked as some idiot crossed three lanes in front of use to avoid missing an exit(good).
When we follow a vehicle with the Cruise Control engaged one weird thing happens at exit ramps. The system uses the lane markings to focus the radar. On older highways the fog line is not painted across the exit the brakes are applied as the car ahead edits and begins to slow down.
I experienced heavy volume holiday traffic recently, couldn’t believe the weird braking going on. Must have been this autobraking garbage, there was nothing going on just heavy volume.
Freegards