At least until it is MUCH better. Like 6 orders of magnitude better.
Just watching the "Pre-Collission Warning" red flash and beep on both a Ford Truck and Mazda crossover, there are far tooo many times that it reliably and consistently would brake and CAUSE an accident.
The most common one is where there is a car or obstacle just on the outside of a turn, such as (in the US, left side driver) a left bend in the road with a "Y" intersection going off the right side = outside of the turn, or a vehicle pulling off into a right-side driveway. As I turn left around the bend without much slowing and the other vehicle drives off to the right => "ALARM!!!". It obviously 'thinks' I'm about to rear-end that vehicle, when I know that no such thing will happen (unless I straighten the wheel or turn right for some bad reason). If braking happened here, I'd get rear-ended.
Similarly, I've seen the alert go off on either dirt roads with some random dark spot in the middle, or a regular road with a temporary steel plate over a work trench, or even just a pebble or small branch in the road.
It is clear that all of these miscellaneous items can produce the appearance of an obstacle about to be hit, but that does NOT mean that braking is appropriate.
It looks like instead of moving forward to an all-electric vehicle, I may be going back to restore some early 1990's vehicles and run them until the petrol market is no longer sufficiently viable to support common corner petrol stations.
Just a few hours ago, I saw an pristine but old Porsche 911 with antique plates. Obviously still way fun to actually DRIVE. Seems like a good way to go!
At least until it is MUCH better. Like 6 orders of magnitude better.
Just watching the "Pre-Collission Warning" red flash and beep on both a Ford Truck and Mazda crossover, there are far tooo many times that it reliably and consistently would brake and CAUSE an accident.
The most common one is where there is a car or obstacle just on the outside of a turn, such as (in the US, left side driver) a left bend in the road with a "Y" intersection going off the right side = outside of the turn, or a vehicle pulling off into a right-side driveway. As I turn left around the bend without much slowing and the other vehicle drives off to the right => "ALARM!!!". It obviously 'thinks' I'm about to rear-end that vehicle, when I know that no such thing will happen (unless I straighten the wheel or turn right for some bad reason). If braking happened here, I'd get rear-ended.
Similarly, I've seen the alert go off on either dirt roads with some random dark spot in the middle, or a regular road with a temporary steel plate over a work trench, or even just a pebble or small branch in the road.
It is clear that all of these miscellaneous items can produce the appearance of an obstacle about to be hit, but that does NOT mean that braking is appropriate.
It looks like instead of moving forward to an all-electric vehicle, I may be going back to restore some early 1990's vehicles and run them until the petrol market is no longer sufficiently viable to support common corner petrol stations.
Just a few hours ago, I saw an pristine but old Porsche 911 with antique plates. Obviously still way fun to actually DRIVE. Seems like a good way to go!