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Sadly, most anything is disorienting in crash situations. I recall how disoriented my mother was when a car came from the side and almost hit us. She tried br
by taeric 3y ago
Sadly, most anything is disorienting in crash situations. I recall how disoriented my mother was when a car came from the side and almost hit us. She tried braking and swerving, but that just caused a hydroplane and when the wheels got traction again, jerked us to the side. She was convinced the other car hit us. I was, too, all told. Until I saw that there was no impact on the side of our car.
Which is to say, you aren't wrong. I prefer folks knowing what their stuff can and will do. I am not clear on what that really says about deploying AEB. How many folks have no idea why their seatbelts lock up if you pull them all the way out, until you let them retract all the way? Very useful feature that they should not wait for everyone to know about before sending it out.
- toast0 3y agoWell, if it's mandatory on new cars, then kind of everybody knows its there, and then there's the fun of not realizing it's not there on older cars. While it's optional, it might be nice if they had a notice on the dash that it's enabled. On the seatbelt locking, I learned the why when installing car seats, which seems reasonable, because that's what it's for.
- taeric 3y agoThey do have a dash notice on the brake engaging. And cars come with a giant book that almost certainly covers it. And these same concerns apply to antilock brakes, no? Getting used to the way those feel took time for folks that were there before.
- SkyPuncher 3y agoWith all due respect, it sounds like your mother oversteered more than anything. AEB has little to do with that.
- taeric 3y agoI didn't mean to implicate anything other than oversteer there. My point was that being in an accident is disorienting already, with no extra tech needed. Such that needing full teaching on it is an overly large burden.