Autobraking tech will be standard in cars by 2022

My 2019 Tacoma has it. It’s warned me to brake a few times but hasn’t really braked by itself. The vehicle sensing cruise control is pretty cool but leaves a little more room than I would like with the vehicle in front of you. It tempts people to pass and merge in front of you. First time it happened to me was day after I got the truck and was learning the cruise control on 77. Car passed me on the right and jumped in front of me. Cruise control automatically backed off quickly and might have touched the brakes. Went from going 75 to around 60 in a split second. Thought the guy behind me was going to hit me.
 
Wife has a 2016 Subaru Forester with eyesight. Had same experience as @carolinatic had in regards to cruise control. Have had only one time it has automatically applied brakes without my input. Was soon after we got it and a car was turning in front of us. I knew he had plenty of time to make the turn before I got there so I kept my speed. The car decided I was wrong and hit the brakes. To say it was a surprise would be an understatement.
 
I hate the auto cruise and the self dimming lights. We had a loaner fusion and it had both features. My wife was driving us down I40 between raleigh and garner going 55-70 constantly because of cars getting in the gap it creates. The auto lights would dim because of a sign reflection the go back to bright.
 
I hired a (brilliant, hard working) millennial to write software.... he went out and bought a Tesla Performance model (70k). I went on a ride with him a while ago and slow is the right word.

OTOH, if you turn off the auto-everything and mash on the "gas" the thing is a rocket ship.
 
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Wifes 2018 forester had the eyesight and nanny features. I turned thst crap off whenever I drove it. Since she upgraded to a 2019 4 runner, she doesnt miss those features.
I am not a fan of that stuff..hope it never becomes a standard and then if it does...better always be a way to over ride and disable..
 
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My new Accord has all of that stuff. I’ve gotten warnings but it’s never locked up the brakes. There are sensitivity settings on mine. Not sure if you can turn it off or not.

Adaptive cruise control is good as long as you aren’t in bumper to bumper traffic. Lane change assist is handy. It lights up LEDs in the door mirrors when something is in the blindspot area. Lane keep assist is horrible. I disabled it. It will scan for lane lines and make slight steering adjustments if enabled. I don’t like it. Backup camera is awesome. Parking proximity sensors are ok.

CHRIS
 
This is a good thing. Its already proven reliable safety tech. What’s a rational objection to that?
 
I can see issues if there are sensor problems. I’ve read where the sensor will alert on stuff like reflections and bridges. Mine has signaled (flashed on the HUD) while going under a bridge in town several times. But it has never applied brakes.

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dman24 said:
I hate the auto cruise and the self dimming lights. We had a loaner fusion and it had both features. My wife was driving us down I40 between raleigh and garner going 55-70 constantly because of cars getting in the gap it creates. The auto lights would dim because of a sign reflection the go back to bright.
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I had a 2019 fusion loaner for a couple weeks. Among my gripes about it was the ridiculous auto dimming lights. That was promptly turned off.
 
Catfish said:
This is a good thing. Its already proven reliable safety tech. What’s a rational objection to that?
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Our Kenworth's have adaptive cruise, auto brake, and radar that beeps.

Adaptive cruise does not allow a truck to pass another vehicle in a sensible manner. You have to be gaining on the vehicle in order to pass it. You can't gain on a vehicle unless you pull out to pass with more than 4 seconds between you. Talk about screwing up traffic if I do that!

I have had auto brake sense a passing car while I was coming up an on ramp with a slight curve. It felt like it was going to put me in a skid until I got on the gas to over ride it. It will also kick on if you are approaching a vehicle on a down hill. What I know, that the brake does not, is that I can't possibly catch that car once we start uphill. And hard braking a tractor at the bottom of the hill SUCKS!!!!

It beeps, that is enough of an objection there.

You can override our adaptive cruise by staying on the gas. The only reason that makes sense for us is that we are governed at 66 on the pedal and 69 on cruise. So I set my cruise and still have to stay on the gas in order to keep my speed up which is kind of a big deal in a tractor trailer.
 
Had a 2018 Mazda suv rental, could not get it to drive at 70 on I-95 on the way to Battery Oaks,
people kept passing me, turned off the radar feature and I was good to go.
I do like the blind spot indicators and the mirror mounted turn signals on the newer vehicles.
 
I have only the warning sensor (not auto brake) and it errors out on the spiral ramps at the RDU parking deck EVERY TIME. I know the tech is a lot better in the last 5 years, but the weird way we have engineered some of our roadways worries me.
 
Slacker said:
New tech in a "life safety" application is always a challenge. I remember similar conversations regarding anti lock brakes.
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The only time I ever heard that anti-lock breaks were a bad thing is off-roading on dual sports. Sometime you need the back wheel to spin to negotiate turns on objects. I can understand the mechanics of anti-lock brakes and find few faults. I can understand the mechanics of auto braking and make your care stop safely whenever I like. Make YOUR car stop safely whenever I want...on my motorcycle so don't tailgate me or you will be parked.
 
I was just driving up Sandy Ridge Rd. in N. High Point two weeks ago in my 2016 Jeep Rubicon and as I got close to the I-40 interchange, all of the sudden the Jeep started braking like the ABS does when you hit ice or cross railroad tracks when the brakes are applied.

It happened twice within one hundred yards or so and then I heard the horn behind me.

The ABS and traction control lights both illuminated. Turns out I had a faulty right rear wheel speed sensor.

This stuff is dangerous.
 
Catfish said:
This is a good thing. Its already proven reliable safety tech. What’s a rational objection to that?
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Beyond the ultimate " the government will control your driving for you" that this technology enables (and will usher in) , why the hell do I want to be forced surrender something I like doing to a machine?

Sometimes I WANT to do a little right foot steering, and not have Robbie the Robot quash it, etc etc etc. . .
 
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"Make YOUR car stop safely whenever I want."
unicorn.
 
chiefjason said:
You can override our adaptive cruise by staying on the gas. The only reason that makes sense for us is that we are governed at 66 on the pedal and 69 on cruise. So I set my cruise and still have to stay on the gas in order to keep my speed up which is kind of a big deal in a tractor trailer.
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Reminds me of that Andy Griffith episode where Barney kept pulling over the same truck for speeding going down a certain hill.

Then Andy stepped in and told Barney to knock it off because the truck driver needed that extra speed to get up the next hill. Lol.
 
I saw a video that took advantage of the Tesla autopilot feature. Told me all i needed to know...i need that feature.
 
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