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Our new Chrysler Pacifica has a lane departure detection system that will nudge the steering wheel to always keep you in your lane. Combined with adaptive cruis
by organsnyder 9y ago
Our new Chrysler Pacifica has a lane departure detection system that will nudge the steering wheel to always keep you in your lane. Combined with adaptive cruise control, it gets close to a rudimentary autopilot-ish system. I've experimented with it (without other traffic present, of course), and have discovered that not only will it beep and complain at me if I keep my hands off the wheel for more than a few seconds, but it will also disable the lane departure detection, just to make sure that I'm not using it for that purpose. That seems like a sensible approach for this level of autonomous system.
- gffrd 9y agoInteresting. How and when does it handle informing you that it’s disabled lane-departure due to your antics? Does it do this mid-drive?
- organsnyder 9y agoThe beeps are quite loud, and it displays the warnings on the screen in the instrument cluster—it's hard to miss. It also is advertised as an assistance feature, with no "autopilot"-type branding.