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It's a tradeoff. My rental car recently had the fancy modern lane-centering, radar cruise control, etc. I found the car-following radar cruise control to be rea
by rideontime 5y ago
It's a tradeoff. My rental car recently had the fancy modern lane-centering, radar cruise control, etc. I found the car-following radar cruise control to be really nice on a 5 hour drive, but the lane centering was garbage, and I just couldn't get used the drive-by-wire steering. I still prefer to actually be in control of my vehicle.
That said... I had the rental because of an accident that would have been avoided if my own car had frontal collision detection and automatic braking. Assuming it had worked.
- slaw 5y agoDid you get Infinity? That’s the only brand I know that offers drive by wire steering.
- QuercusMax 5y agoI had it in my Nissan Leaf - the cruise control was great, but the lane following felt like I was a bowling ball in a game with bumpers. It wanted to just bounce back and forth off the sides of the lanes.
- slaw 5y agoNissan Leaf has regular rack and pinion steering not drive by wire.
- QuercusMax 5y agoThe model I leased for 2 years certainly had auto steering.
- sfteus 5y agoWe borrowed a 2020 4Runner to haul a camper on a 300 mile drive, and the radar-enabled cruise control was really nice on that trip both ways. Seemed like it did a good job of breaking early enough to keep it only providing mild input, but it wasn't super distracting or anything. Also possible that any input from the automatic trailer break controller overshadowed the what the cruise control was doing. It either didn't have lane-centering or it was disabled, but I think in general that's a way more noticeable input than braking. If you have a weird input in steering (ie, a strong gust of wind) your instinct is to steer the opposite way, but in general I think most people that have weird input with acceleration/braking tend to respond with just braking universally.