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[–] 79 points 1 week ago (5 children)

God, every time.

Lane keep assist. Don't tell me how to drive my own car.

You can't even show me the right speed limit due a sign on a different road that say 5MPH, when I'm on a 30MPH road, and suddenly you start beeping at me cause I'm going too fast?

Randomly flashing up the BRAKE! Warning for no reason at all?

None of this tech works correctly, and until it does, it all gets turned off every single time 8 start the engine.

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  • [–] 43 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Lane assist that pulls you into a pothole you moved over to dodge and loses its collective shit if the lines change.

    Collision detection that flips out and hits the brakes to avoid a car that just completed its turn.

    Blind spot monitoring that screams at you in a turn lane.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 week ago

    You can’t even show me the right speed limit due a sign on a different road that say 5MPH, when I’m on a 30MPH road, and suddenly you start beeping at me cause I’m going too fast?

    Insurance company using police report: "Sorry, your rates are going up because you were going 25MPH over the speed limit. What were you thinking?"

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago*

    Lane assist almost crashed me once. Lines were painted over as the lanes were rerouted due to a construction. This must have confused the system, as it tried to pull me into the concrete wall to the right.

    I stopped and turned it off at the next gas station. Never again

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago* (1 child)

    The speed limit warning beep is fine if it's just once on speed limit update or when you go above, so at least you can make your own judgement.

    Not sure what feature you have that flashes the BRAKE! warning, only I one I know of is the collision detection one that makes a warning sound that is quite reliable.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    I never had problems with the collision detection (flashing BRAKE), up until I drove a Fiat 500e recently. It seems to differ by make and model I guess.
    That Fiat was insanely obnoxious though: It plays a very loud DING and flashes the entire dash red, even if you're going quite slow and can literally come to a complete stop with enough space between you and the car in front, just by taking your feet off the pedals and using regenerative braking.
    I drove it once and I got that warning like five times. Never had it before with Ford, Opel, Renault, ...

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago

    I’ve driven the Renault 4 a couple of times now as a rental, and it has the absolute worst combination of driver attention detection and beeps. It’ll beep randomly for … something, you look at the dash and then it’ll beep because you’re not looking at the road. Or god forbid you look in the mirror, instant warning beeps. Definitely never getting a Renault after dealing with that.

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