Only thing I left on in my newish car is the lane change/blind spot warning and the “you are about to ram someone” alarm. Can’t remember the official names. They rarely actually help, but when they do, it can mean avoiding a collision.
Lol that’s rude. I drove a 94 Corolla for like 20 years. Regardless of what an expert driver like you thinks, these sort of safety features are useful. Not often, and usually one would notice the issue without them and avoid a collision, but there’s that occasional situation where they can save your life.
I’m sorry for being rude. I must have been in a bad mood.
I’m not an expert driver, just a careful one. I’ve never had any driver assistance at all and don’t really see the need for them unless you’re distracted while driving.
Like, the only way they’d save my life is if they could avoid a front end collision, getting t-boned, or rear ended. They just seem annoying to me.
It’s fine. I’m just hoping to see less of that kind of response on Lemmy than what shows up on Reddit.
My car can avoid a front-end collision. If it detects you going too fast towards the vehicle in front of you without sufficient braking, relative to their speed and such (it seems to calculate “how long you have to react”, basically), then it does this frantic emergency beep. It’s only ever gotten a sort-of false-positive once. It will also optionally attempt to stop the car if you do not heed the warning. This is all configurable/able to be disabled, as well. It also has lane-keeping, for instance, which I’ve turned off since it’s just annoying and honestly creepy to have the car try to drive itself, even a little bit.
I know we all think we are amazing drivers, but you never know when something might distract you at just the wrong moment., I’ve only ever been in a fender-bender, when I was much younger in ~2002, because I was tired, driving on a highway, and the traffic went from 60-0 in seconds. Car didn’t even need work after that. I just mention this because I’m a pretty careful driver too, but still have had close calls before. Plus with all the reckless drivers/weavers/etc on the road, I’ll take all the help I can get.
Only thing I left on in my newish car is the lane change/blind spot warning and the “you are about to ram someone” alarm. Can’t remember the official names. They rarely actually help, but when they do, it can mean avoiding a collision.
the blind spot detector is a game changer for SUVs and other vehicles with limited visibility. I don’t feel safe without it anymore.
I drive a 2006 Corolla.
How bad are you at driving that you need a computer to let you know when you need to pay attention?
Lol that’s rude. I drove a 94 Corolla for like 20 years. Regardless of what an expert driver like you thinks, these sort of safety features are useful. Not often, and usually one would notice the issue without them and avoid a collision, but there’s that occasional situation where they can save your life.
I’m sorry for being rude. I must have been in a bad mood.
I’m not an expert driver, just a careful one. I’ve never had any driver assistance at all and don’t really see the need for them unless you’re distracted while driving.
Like, the only way they’d save my life is if they could avoid a front end collision, getting t-boned, or rear ended. They just seem annoying to me.
It’s fine. I’m just hoping to see less of that kind of response on Lemmy than what shows up on Reddit.
My car can avoid a front-end collision. If it detects you going too fast towards the vehicle in front of you without sufficient braking, relative to their speed and such (it seems to calculate “how long you have to react”, basically), then it does this frantic emergency beep. It’s only ever gotten a sort-of false-positive once. It will also optionally attempt to stop the car if you do not heed the warning. This is all configurable/able to be disabled, as well. It also has lane-keeping, for instance, which I’ve turned off since it’s just annoying and honestly creepy to have the car try to drive itself, even a little bit.
I know we all think we are amazing drivers, but you never know when something might distract you at just the wrong moment., I’ve only ever been in a fender-bender, when I was much younger in ~2002, because I was tired, driving on a highway, and the traffic went from 60-0 in seconds. Car didn’t even need work after that. I just mention this because I’m a pretty careful driver too, but still have had close calls before. Plus with all the reckless drivers/weavers/etc on the road, I’ll take all the help I can get.