Car people--help, please?

[tvguy]

I turn it off when I'm driving his car in a carpool lane for the same reason. The sensors get confused by the solid lines.

Luckily it's an easy thing to turn on and off when needed. It is an eerie feeling when the wheel starts turning in your hand on its own or you feel the brake depress under your foot.

I haven't taken the time yet to learn how to turn it off. But yes, that is what is distracting, the car taking control of the steering and braking.

 

[DLgal]

I haven't taken the time yet to learn how to turn it off. But yes, that is what is distracting, the car taking control of the steering and braking.

It's just a button on the left side of the dash in our car, near the side view mirror adjustment. There are 2, one for turning off lane keep assist and one for turning off the front sensor automatic braking.

 

[_19disnA]

How to turn these features off varies by manufacturer. Some have specific buttons on the steering wheel or elsewhere, others have 'virtual' buttons on the display screen. Others have a menu for driver selectable features you can adjust only when the car is in park. Sometimes there are features they won't let you disable. If you get into something like a rental car from a manufacturer you haven't previously driven, I can certainly see how these features can become a huge distraction.

Can recall driving one car a couple of years ago where if you change lanes when it thinks you shouldn't, the steering actually becomes tighter/stiffer to operate. When it first happened I thought the steering was malfunctioning. Certainly turned that feature OFF as soon as I could. I can see someone not familiar with it in some emergency situation would tend to apply a lot of extra force on the steering wheel and perhaps even run themselves off the road. The last thing I want in any emergency situation is to be fighting against what the car incorrectly determines as the way to resolve the situation.

It seems like some engineer/design person invented these features that sound great in theory, but in real world driving situations don't work nearly as well. I seemed to recall some articles that mentioned issues with 'self driving' cars getting confused with road construction temporary lanes. Have never driven a car with any type of self driving capabilities and not sure I would have any interest in using that feature.