Yeah, the replies in this post bun me out. Everyone thinks they’re a good driver. It’s always everyone else causing the problem! All it takes is one small lapse in attention to hurt yourself, loved ones, or strangers just living their lives.

I bought my first new car a few years ago, and it came with a lot of nice safety features. I’ve left them all on. I’ve only had minor annoyances. Lane assist can require me to override when construction has messed up normal roadways. Once in a rare while it’ll tell me to keep my hands on the steering wheel when they already are, but these are easy to adapt to.

Turning off these features because you’re a good driver and don’t need them, and thinking others are the bad drivers is such a self-centered view. Remember, to me, you’re the other driver and I’m the good driver.

Another 10-15 years as cars without these features get replaced we could live in a world where catastrophic traffic accidents are rare, but only if folks get over themselves and leave the safety features enabled.

I drive a Ford, nothing special. These complaints are overblown, and your ego is putting people at needless risk.

I’ve had the “put hands on the wheel” alerts but I just slightly grip the wheel harder for a moment and it corrects itself.

I agree with you overall

That lane keep assist could actually be making your car more dangerous since it can make mistakes but it gives you a false sense of security and makes you less alert. That’s different from something like automatic braking that doesn’t change your perception because it isn’t actively doing anything most of the time

I had a rental car with that lane assist on, and it tried to drive me into oncoming traffic. I don’t care how “rarely” it tries to kill me and others, it only needs to happen once before I turn it off and swear it off forever.

I use all the features available to me, but my adaptive cruise control likes to slam on the breaks when a car in the turning lane next to me brakes to make their turn. Particularly on curves and the sensors decide the car in that lane is actually in front of me. It happens so often that I’ve come to expect it. Some safety features are just not ready for prime time.

I think Hyundai/Kia have relatively unintrusive driver assistance systems (so far).

I’ve driven a VW Golf that almost got me killed when the “smart” cruise control slammed on the brakes to “avoid” a car in the turning lane and a mate drives an Amarok that nags him to rest every few minutes because it doesn’t like the shape of his eyes.