Carmakers keep loading new cars with driver aids, but a surprising share of owners never turn the fanciest ones on

  • A study found 25.9 percent of car owners don’t use adaptive cruise control.
  • Many car owners also don’t like using augmented reality head-up displays.
  • Just 27.3 percent of car owners regularly change their car’s driving mode.
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 4 points 14 hours ago (1 child)

I'm guess I'm officially old. My car doesn't have a single piece of tech listed in this article. I don't even know what an AR HUD in a car would look like or what info it would show.

  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 4 points 12 hours ago* (1 child)

    None of my vehicles have it but my parents do. It’s really just another screen above the wheel on the dashboard. It reflects on the glass and that’s what you actually see. Keeps your eyes closer to the road. It’s noticeable even in direct sunlight and surprisingly not terribly distracting. You can turn it off, or customize it. My parent’s vehicle it changes with mode, like ‘sport’ ditches fuel metrics for an RPM gauge. This image makes it look a lot more opaque/vibrant than it really is.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments