For someone like me, who LOVES the joy of driving, this is BAD. I hate the large portion of the populous that DON'T take driving seriously and are the root cause of all the "Nanny Controls".
How will this interfere with you in any way?
I think the fear is that the increasing presence of nannies in vehicles is leading to a general apathy towards defensive driving skills. Perhaps driving skills in general.
By concluding the driver is incapable of managing a vehicle, the incentive to create "driver"s cars" takes a back seat to generic stat chasing typical of automotive appliances.
The counter argument that's it leads to "safer faster" butts heads with a couple of different counter arguments centering around the emotional appeal to driving experience stuff.
Basically nannies allow you to shoot your load with a super model in 20 seconds flat on government regulated and monitored beds. Some folks prefer a little foreplay...
I'm into bikes so I'm more a casual observer these days.
when it gets to the point where nannies and regulations results in everyone driving speed limited, no aggressive movements allowed safety boxes I'll be riding by on my death trap.
How will this interfere with you in any way?
Personally, not sure, I haven't driven a vehicle with automatic braking yet so I may have jumped the gun on it.
What I have experience with.
-Stability Control, even in the OFF setting it will still kick in somewhat (mandatory that it can't be FULLY disabled) Sucks for trying to have a little fun in the Winter, kicks in at the worst possible times, no matter what brand vehicle.
-Mandatory Tire pressure monitors, costs me extra money due to me switching between summer and winter wheels and I check my tire pressures often anyhow.
-And these Auto Braking systems will, I'm sure, become mandatory safety items in the near future.
All of these "safety" systems are becoming mandatory from all the negligent drivers on the road that find anything BUT driving more interesting.
Between this and lane holding technology, it's becoming much safer to drive drunk. Time to raise the legal limit.
Between this and lane holding technology, it's becoming much safer to drive drunk. Time to raise the legal limit.
I would definitely want to know how it handles a 30 MPH approach to a hairpin corner with a rock wall at a 90 degree angle to the front of the car. I do that literally hundreds of times every day, so it would either need to handle that without tripping, or have a full-off switch. But unless it's smart enough to notice that the road will actually turn with the wall, I suspect the system would assume I'm about to have a massive accident at every corner entry.
While the only ones I've been exposed to are the alerting kind, they have on occasion gone off incorrectly. Until they have cars actually talking to each other, they have to make educated guesses based of sonar and LiDAR. I know the visual difference between a car and a rock, and hopefully the software engineers can come close in their logic.
It doesn't need to differentiate between a rock or a car, if it's in front of you and you are going to fast your still going to want it to kick it. You could have the same corner scenario and a car coming around the opposite way. It seems likely these systems are tuned such that if it kicks in you weren't going to make the corner and hit the thing in at the corner apex, whether it be a car or rock wall.
Nanny state cars won't give us the freedom to pretend to be NASCAR drivers and tailgate.