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The lane keeper fucks up and tries to drive on the shoulder, driver turns it off, research group acts surprised that it's turned off
I had a few times where my lane assist thinks I'm turning when coming up on a left turn lane for some reason.
I'm never turning that shit off though. I'll deal with the random beeps and resistance if I get too close to the line or something.
I remember reading a reddit thread a couple years ago where someone legitimately asked "what if there's a bicyclist on the road?" I replied with the proper precautions to take when that happens, and the same dumbass replied with "but the beeps are annoying if I try to go over the line when lane assist is on!"
I was driving home from the dealership after buying my last car, and the second I felt the wheel jerk out of my hands to take a corner on the highway differently than I typically do (I still stay in the lane, ofc), that shit got turned off and will never be reenabled. One of the most dangerous things is the car doing something unexpected while someone is driving and they try to correct/overcorrect for it out of shock/surprise and cause a crash.
Yeah this happened to me too when I drove my ex's car. Cars should not be jerking the wheel. The sensors are notoriously inaccurate at sunrise/sunset when the sun is glaring right in the sensors, and it causes glitches. Especially in wet conditions where the road is slippery and there's reflected glare as well… almost spun out from that shit once when I tried to turn and the car said NOPE and jerked me back into the straight lane. This was with indicators, mind you.
I also remember one time we were driving on the freeway and the car suddenly spotted an "invisible fake ghost pedestrian", and SLAMMED on the brakes. Like screeching halt from 80kmph (50mph) in the middle of the busy road. Dunno how on earth we didn't cause an accident; the people behind us were locked in or something.
Never drove that car again, fuck that. My ex likes that unruly beast for some reason; though they also liked horse riding, which features vehicles that are similarly unpredictable and dangerous, so I suppose it makes sense. I'm ok with beeping, that's fine and a sensible warning feature I can choose to ignore if it's wrong. I'm not ok with the car wrenching control of the vehicle out of my hands
I was driving a rental car with that feature once and it recognized one of those big arrows on the ground (that show a lane is ending e.g.) as side lanes. It was on a fast street with multiple lanes, so I was going over 100 km/h and the car jerked the steering wheel towards the goddamn wall and out of the lane. IDK what would've happened if I didn't react in time...
In our car, there's three levels of lane assist.
I fucking hate #3. The only good part is it forces you to turn on the turn indicator. It both wants your hands on the wheel for the maneuver, but also will cancel the change if it feels any "driver correction".
There are two roads mine is always trying to turn down on my way home from work. I keep meaning to go that route during a not busy time of day to see if it actually makes the turn if I don’t stop it or if it will just jog to the right a bit.
There are a bunch of black squiggly lines on the road from repairs and it gets confused there.
I turn it on when I'm on the highway. In the city, our roads are way too fucked up for it to work.
I also have an auto emergency brake, and that's gone off when it doesn't need to once or twice, but I'm not disabling that one. I'd rather get rear-ended than hit someone.
But if you indicate like your supposed to there are no beeps when crossing lines.
These guys are idiots that complain about the end results of not knowing how to drive themselves.
Exactly. I ended up just asking if they even took Driver's Ed