Don't make me stop this car!

[Doctor Phibes]

Probably not such a bad idea. My Subaru has it. These things come in and you think they're either amazing or a terrible imposition and then you can't imagine living without them, which is how I now feel about the backup camera legislated in 2018. Our old car doesn't have it and it's always a surprise that I have to actually turn my head.

[jon-nyc]

Count me in on the hater side.

Fucking hate this, it sucks for aggressive drivers like me.

[George K]

My 2017 Audi has it as well, though I've never had it engage. I get a "pre-sense" warning and a red triangle appears in the HUD.

Love, love, LOVE, the rear camera. I also can't imagine being without it.

[Copper]

Forget the AI, let me control the brakes on the car behind me.

[Jolly]

SIL partially credits it for keeping her injuries fairly minor in a three car pile-up. That, and a good air bag system. She drives an Acura SUV.

[Jolly]

OTOH, it's another expense when it breaks (all electronics eventually break).

[George K]

@Jolly said in Don't make me stop this car!:

OTOH, it's another expense when it breaks (all electronics eventually break).

Exactly. I wonder how much it adds to the purchase price of the car.

Once implemented, the NHTSA projects that this standard will save at least 360 lives a year and prevent at least 24,000 injuries annually.

"Once implemented..." Does that mean once every car on the road has it?

It's going to avoid pedestrians? Tesla's pedestrian-avoidance has been not the greatest from what I've seen.

"The new vehicle safety standards we finalized today will save hundreds of lives and prevent tens of thousands of injuries every year," said U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg

And, finally, I'm disappointed in the lot of you for not making a "Secretary Pete wants you to stop rear-ending people" joke. I'm particularly disappointed in @jon-nyc

[Copper]

What, exactly, is a life worth?

Do they all have the same worth?

Could we save a little money by turning the fatality into a serious injury, or does it have to be no injury at all?

[Jolly]

Nah, injuries cost more than fatalities.

[Mik]

Not many treatments for dead.

[LuFins Dad]

Can’t you turn the brake assist off? We have it on our Honda and I turned it off as on 2 lane roads with a curve, the damn thing always wanted to slam on the brakes.

[89th]

Have you tried driving on the right side of the road?

[jon-nyc]

@LuFins-Dad said in Don't make me stop this car!:

Can’t you turn the brake assist off? We have it on our Honda and I turned it off as on 2 lane roads with a curve, the damn thing always wanted to slam on the brakes.

I can turn mine off but it defaults to on every time the car turns on. It’s about three or four levels deep in the on-screen settings menu to turn it off.

I have no choice but to turn it off when I have my bike on back else I can’t back up at all. The car immediately brakes when it detects the slightest movement of the bike if I’m in reverse.

[LuFins Dad]

[jon-nyc]

Nice. I can turn off the beeping when something gets close with a button like that. That stays off until I turn it on again. That is critical because my bike rack alone will otherwise constantly trigger it. But the collision sensor wants to be on all the time in order to antagonize me and compromise my safety through an endless series of type 1 errors.

[LuFins Dad]

There’s a way in the App that I can change the distance settings. I’m still playing with it, because I do like the idea. Hey, I’m not perfect as a driver and I don’t mind an assist, but on a long slow curve, cars in the other lane will set it off. I don’t like that.

The lane correction warning does not allow me to change the settings, which I find annoying as a guy that does hug the middle line a little. It gives me no leeway. I only use that for a long drive on the highway.