I Admit it, I Was Wrong........

I usually don't use cruise because I get super annoyed with how slowpokes always seem to cut in front of me and being in a mid-Atlantic state many of the highways are never wide open unless its late night early morning hours. I do like the adaptive cruise better. the emergency braking in mine seems to sometime just go off when nothing is around or going off if traffic stopped suddenly in front of me but i'm already on the brakes.

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I think the button on the wheel only turns off lane departure. I don't think you can turn of emergency braking and if there is a way it most likely reactivates when you restart the engine. I also think some of the tech stuff is disabled if you are in 4Lo too.

 

Y’a it actually works really great. Quicker than me a couple of times while using my wife’s RAV4

 

Only false alarms for mine have been when facing into the bright sun glare. Usually sun set.

 

Some of this stuff is ok but some just encourages people to depend on their car to do everything for them.
Two examples. I am a service advisor at a luxury dealership. I've had these two complaints just recently.
1). A guy comes in and says he can't back up. I ask if the car won't go into reverse. He says it goes into reverse fine but his warning indicator in the rear bumper is not working. He says he can't back up without it! I've had the same complaint with bad backup cameras.
2) A young lady comes in and says that she can't change lanes. I again ask why. She says that her blindspot indicator is not working. We check it out and it is bad. The part is on backorder. I tell her that I will call her when the part comes in. She throws a fit and says that she will have to have a loaner until it arrives. I tell her that the car is driveable and I can't give her a loaner. She asks what she is supposed to do. I tell her to turn her head and check for traffic in her blindspot. She looks at me like I have two heads or something.
We are fast creating a bunch of non driving idiots with some of this stuff on these cars. Plus, this stuff is very expensive to fix.
Call me old school or whatever, but people need to learn how to drive the car instead of the car driving them.

 

wow, that's some scary stuff

 

Give her a stick shift loaner lol

 

We’re already there. Driving has become a right, not a privilege. But,,,, I don’t blame tech.

 

Totally, tech should be a backup at best. No substitute for knowing how to drive in the first place.

That said, while I don't have such fancy stuff on my truck, some of it sounds like it's a good defense against most other people on the road nowadays who are always fingering their phone and such.

 

That would really be scary! Of course, she would never get it out of the parking lot.

 

“This car always dies when I put it in drive!”

 

Just WOW! I admit that I really like the back-up camera and it does make backing in easier but I don't depend on it 100%. This is actually my first vehicle to have that too. I have some lifelong vision issues that affects the width of my field of vision and depth perception isn't as good as the average person with two perfect eyes. I always now needed a car with mirrors on both sides (some cars on the road when I learned to drive didn't have them, still) and have to scan around me well, checking mirrors when I'm driving. I can't imagine not knowing do that, being lazy and requiring that technology to drive, change lanes and such. Just wow young drivers can't do what us GEN X and older had to learn.

 

I added a dash cam for incase there is a crash. video is the most impartial witness to an incident.

 

I think this guy is kicking himself for having dash cams….

 

Seriously those people are just stupid and frankly I’m reassured that there are some minimum systems in place to increase the protection of the people they share the road with.

 

Until you are coming up beside one who's blindspot indicator is not working and they change right into you because it didn't alert them. Or, they back right out in front of you because their cross traffic alert is on the fritz. These kids have grown up with this crap and think it is the be all, end all. They have no clue what to do if it doesn't work. Hell, give them a map and tell them they can't use their phone or navigation and they can't find their way home.

 

Yeah that really didn't work out for him. Crazy angry nut case really did incriminate himself there. He even had the in cab cam that ride share drivers use. I hope No one rides with him.

 

I hope he's taken off the road - he hasn't got the mentality to be trusted in public

 

I like the blind spot monitor , the collision avoidance is ok, it gave me a couple false alarms, but it also is good if that person who pulls out in front of me. I don't like adaptive cruise.