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I was driving a Citroen in rural Ireland that had an active lane correction if it thought you were drifting out of the lane. The thing is that in rural Ireland
by jsonne 5y ago
I was driving a Citroen in rural Ireland that had an active lane correction if it thought you were drifting out of the lane. The thing is that in rural Ireland many roads are one lane and have no marking at all so the thing was constantly forcing the car into directions that were actively dangerous. Towards other cars on narrow roads in the center. Towards shoulders with steep drop offs. I have deep skepticism about this sort of technology and remember that a 0.001% failure rate is someone's kid, husband, wife, brother, sister, mom, dad, etc not just some statistic. I'll be buying older cars that don't have this for as long as possible.
- swhitt 5y agoThere's typically a button to toggle it on/off somewhere near the steering wheel. I got a new car a couple of months ago that has this, and was experiencing similar issues on rural Texas farm roads. I just had to look up where mine was and turn it off temporarily.
- packetlost 5y agoI have a VW with similar technology. Even on regular highways it's attempted to veer off onto an exit pretty consistently.
- lsaferite 5y agoMy Kia lets you set the level of correction as well. So it's can be gentle, "uh, pay attention", or "get over here!"
- OldHand2018 5y agoI have an Audi - the button to turn it off and on is at the tip of the turn signal stalk. You can toggle it with your pinky without removing your hands from the steering wheel or eyes from the road. I also have a Subaru - turning it off or on requires three levels of menu navigation, and you have to use the center console touch screen. I suppose they do their testing and validation in drastically different environments!
- GekkePrutser 5y agoYeah rural Irish roads are something else. There's an oft-posted meme of a barely accessible country trail in a field with a 100km/h speed sign but this is actually quite common there. But I can imagine how this is super dangerous. I don't want my car second-guessing me constantly either especially if it can do something dangerous. In rural Ireland in summer you'd often be meeting a tourist coach on a bridge with centimetres to spare. Really not the time for my car to suddenly pull at the wheel. I think instead of mandating this stuff we should just focus on full self driving. If the car knows so much better let it handle the driving and let me do with my time what I wish as a passenger. It also takes a whole of complexity in terms of driver/car interaction out of the equation.
- mark-r 5y agoI have a Toyota Camry with lane detection. If it thinks you're on the edge of the lane, it beeps at you and gives the steering wheel a gentle nudge. I think they've given it a perfect balance, because the nudge really is gentle - like a short blast of cross-wind. It doesn't force you into killing yourself like a Tesla. There's an intersection near my house where they repaved the road this summer. The lane markings on one side of the intersection are about 2 feet offset from the other side of the intersection after they repainted them, and it trips the lane detection about 50% of the time even when I'm actively trying to compensate. I suspect that intersection will become a graveyard of bricked cars once the law comes to pass.