The Latest Car Technology Is Starting to Drive People Nuts

[xenon]

Agreed I recently bought a 2017 manual car. It’s refreshingly simple.

[Jolly]

Technology costs money. To buy and to repair.

[Axtremus]

There is this “safety feature” that attempts to detect if the driver is sitting upright with his/her eyes open and looking forward, and the car beeps if it cannot “detect” the driver’s eyes looking forward. Problem is the implementation results in too many false negatives — they car keep beeping even when the driver really is sitting up and alert with his/her eyes looking forward, and the beeping becomes a distraction to the driver. Worse, there is no way to disable this supposed “safety feature.”

[jon-nyc]

Mine does that too. Usually a few times on every longish drive.

[Klaus]

I've got to keep that in mind the next time I buy a car:

No annoying safety features

No ads on my screen

Real door handles, doors that can be opened with a physical key

Real buttons for the most important functions (e.g. my partner drives a new Mercedes and volume can only be controlled with a touchscreen slider - so annoying!).

[Mik]

Our 2017 Terrain (now daughter's) had all these lane departure warnings that were oversensitive and quite annoying. I turned them off.

It's part of a trend of technology trying to "help" you and it's aggravating. I see it all the time in software. Ugh.

[jon-nyc]

My problem with the auto-braking is you can't just disable it once. You can disable it, but it turns itself back on every time you start the car. And it's several levels deep in the screen menu.

[LuFins Dad]

@jon-nyc said in The Latest Car Technology Is Starting to Drive People Nuts:

My problem with the auto-braking is you can't just disable it once. You can disable it, but it turns itself back on every time you start the car. And it's several levels deep in the screen menu.

Not on our Honda. There’s a button on the dash. Same for the lane departure. What I dislike about them is the all or nothing approach. It would be useful to get a beep if I am drifting, it’s another thing to have the steering wheel start to fight me a little.

[jon-nyc]

I can disable the lane nanny with a button on the dash. And I can stop the beeping when something is nearby with a button on the dash (thank god since I have a bike rack on the trailer hitch half the year). But not the auto braking.

[Mik]

I wish they'd put lane warning on semis. One just about ran me off the road Monday night.

[Copper]

More tech and distraction is bad

[LuFins Dad]

@Mik said in The Latest Car Technology Is Starting to Drive People Nuts:

I wish they'd put lane warning on semis. One just about ran me off the road Monday night.

I had to rent a U-Haul last Saturday to transport 8 digital pianos. The lack of even a backup camera or back sensors was really surprising.

[Jolly]

@Mik said in The Latest Car Technology Is Starting to Drive People Nuts:

I wish they'd put lane warning on semis. One just about ran me off the road Monday night.

They don't need one.

You moved, didn't you?

[blondie]

I’m pretty tech adverse. Did I read touch screens were being banned for new vehicles in Europe come 2026? I’m holding tight with my 2014 Honda til it falls apart.

[Mik]

@Jolly said in The Latest Car Technology Is Starting to Drive People Nuts:

@Mik said in The Latest Car Technology Is Starting to Drive People Nuts:

I wish they'd put lane warning on semis. One just about ran me off the road Monday night.

They don't need one.

You moved, didn't you?

Quickly, yes.