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"The one on my 2016 C-class Mercedes was so bad that it almost caused two accidents. If not for years of pingpong..." Care to elaborate? Both how it nearly cau

• jacquesm 5y ago
  There were two instances that were particularly memorable, the first was when passing through a steel bridge with fairly narrow spacing, the car - without any warning - slammed on the brakes just as I was passing the entrance to the bridge. The road surface was wet from recent rain and the car immediately started to spin due to uneven grip. I managed to avoid the posts :) This happened once more in the same spot but then I was already more alert to this kind of nonsense so that time it was pretty uneventful even if the car - again - slammed on the brakes. The other situation was when in a tight right hand turn a large advertising sign caused the car to believe I was about to have a head on collision (when in fact the object was merely passing right-to-left through my field of view). This caused me to end up on the wrong side of the road, if there had been opposing traffic it would have been a head on collision, exactly the thing it was trying to avoid. I brought the car to the local dealership, they checked it over and pronounced it sound, I sold it a week later. Murderous beta grade - or not even beta grade, proof of concept - software in that car. I was pretty loyal to the brand but I don't think I'll ever have another one, besides the plastic bling interior the fact that they shipped that junk has made the brand worthless to me. Now I drive a 24 year old car that was re-built end-to-end. It has an ECU, ABS, an aftermarket mp3 player / navigation combo and that's it.
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