One In Five Drivers Switches Off The Safety Tech Meant To Save Their Lives

Yeah, if it’s anything like the assists in the Sprinter I’ve used for work, that shit can get annoying and I don’t blame people for disabling them. Yeah I keep them enabled most of the time, but these systems fail to have any nuance. For instance the lane assist doesn’t realise I may have a reason for drifting out of the lane be that an obstacle, a bicyclist, construction or otherwise. The car jerking the steering wheel around doesn’t help me to drive very well, does it, but it has caused me to try and counteract it with bad steering inputs. The blind spot sensor is more useful and yet it still cries wolf by beeping at me in double turn lanes or in the rain or sometimes on a sunny day while 2m from a traffic post… so I have started to put much less stock in it.

the lane assist doesn’t realise I may have a reason for drifting out of the lane be that an obstacle, a bicyclist, construction or otherwise.

Where I live you are meant to indicate in such scenarios and then the lane assist will not complain.