I have one of the cars with this system and I believe it is dangerous, as the car is beeping for your attention, it causes regular split second distractions from your situational awareness. The main issue is that these aren’t the only beeps the car does, it has many other beeps, including one for when it notices the speed limit has changed. So you have to spend some mental power figuring out which beep you’re getting. It’s very distracting. Not to mention the fact that the system is wrong just as often as it is right. It often mistakes speed bump speeds for whole street speeds and beeps at you for not going 20 the full length of the street. It also has about 33% accuracy with school zones. Sometimes it knows it’s a school zone but mostly it will beep if you go over 40 in a school zone even at times when the limit is not 40. I do think it is a dangerous system as it aggressively draws your attention away from the road. Also for what it’s worth I’m actually on the slightly slow side of driving! I don’t push the limit, and this system is still an issue.
My car is from before this time but I've driven a few rentals with these features and it is absolutely terrible. Feels like you're driving a theme park ride, with all that flashing and beeping.
What's also terrible is how they're constantly correcting the steering wheel because of invariably incorrect lane detection and one car would even happily overcorrect but then steer me right over the opposite line because it would never correct its own manoeuvres.
I will never buy a car like this and I will happily drive second hand vehicles instead.
No way. Car manufacturers just suck at software, always have and always will, and these systems make everything worse and less safe.
I've had that problem, especially in construction areas temporarily routing around the painted lines. Kinda scary when you feel the wheel veer you into oncoming traffic.
Care to explain what you mean with "mandatory" and "impossible"? I just bought a new car after test driving a few, all hybrids so no vintage, and in NONE of them it was mandatory on, and also could be enabled and disabled at will - I tried that feature too.
I think what they mean is that the features re-enable themselves every time they start the car. In the EU these features, and that behavior, have been mandatory for all vehicles released since 2022.
4. Advanced emergency braking systems and emergency lane-keeping systems shall meet the following requirements in particular:
(a) it shall only be possible to switch off such systems one at a time by a sequence of actions to be carried out by the driver;
(b) the systems shall be in normal operation mode upon each activation of the vehicle master control switch;
(c) it shall be possible to easily suppress audible warnings, but such action shall not at the same time suppress system functions other than audible warnings;
(d) it shall be possible for the driver to override such systems.
Adding my own anecdote, I recently drove a rental Camry that had a speed limit detection system out in the middle of Alaska. It didn't do much if I went over, and I was surprised at how often it seemed to detect the right speed limit, but there were obvious errors, and no awareness of construction zones.
Makes me wonder if folks in the future will troll these systems with t-shirts and bumper stickers of 5, 10 km/h (or mph) signs. IIRC, simple flat images already confuse systems on board some Teslas.
