Technology

This title is so misleading as to be incorrect

How about cleaning the snow off your car properly? I've seen plenty of drivers, in the USA, with covered headlights, rear lights, windows and half of the front windshield. If these lazy asshats do not know how to use an ice scrapper, pull them over and take their FOB/keys away.

So glad my 2019 car is a standard but still has CarPlay.

Like, CarPlay is about the most "smart" feature I need/want. I just want a good map and the ability to play podcasts and listen to music easily. That's it.

Since it's a standard the car couldn't get any of the "smart" features I didn't want anyway.

I'll drive the car, thanks.

In this topic, people not being able to spell 'brake'

My daily driver is a 2003, I had to buy an aftermarket stereo to get Bluetooth. Recently I borrowed a friend's Tesla for a week, and that was a god damned hostile experience. Shift into reverse - from a touchscreen, mind - and suddenly the entire cabin comes alive with beeps and pings, the dashboard changes to 3 different cameras, none of which show me what's happening to the sides of the car. The 3d overview diagram does almost a good enough job, but is that a trash can, a person, or a telephone pole? The computer isn't sure. On top of that, the blind spots are huge and the back window is tiny and heavily tinted, so I have to use the screens to some extent. If I was my car, I'd have turned half that shit off.

It’s about finding the balance. If it’s constantly annoying and bothersome people will turn it off. If it’s in the background and ready when needed, then awesome.

My wife’s car (I’m sure a lot of others do too) lets you fine tune the help. I left on most of it after turning it down a bit - for me, she sets her own.

I can deal with every other safety feature, but lane assist can fuck right off.

I know a couple people who one could describe as “twat” who turn off traction control and abs, thinking they are going to be rally drivers on the way to McDonalds. They tend to end up in the ditch.

Subaru has been good. The lane warning was the only thing we turned off because it was just obnoxious. If something is beeping constantly and erratically, what’s the point? The lane centering had a tendency to pull towards semis when passing but that seems to have been fixed in an update. The only other thing that is more a quality of life is a way easily and preemptively to turn off the backup warning and breaking assist when pulling a trailer.

Whenever I get into a modern hire car the first thing I do after starting it is turn all the 'safety' features off. They either don't work well, are annoying, or both. Sometimes they're downright dangerous. It was a large part of the reason I chose to buy a slightly older vehicle when I needed to change my car. The later models all had the annoying stuff.

The study found 58.3 percent of buyers say they couldn’t live without Bluetooth connectivity

Strange, when smartphones no longer come with 3.5 mm sockets... The consumer never asked for the majority of these "features": they already had access to most of them (through their smartphone or other standalone device), or was easily and cost-effectively installed as an aftermarket gadget. All of these "safety" features, that coincidentally also happen to constitute a (future) privacy-nightmare, were pushed for by: legislators, insurance companies, and the automotive industry itself. Consumers effectively got conned into buying a duplicate of products they already owned, but which are instead subject to terms and conditions dictated by aforementioned stakeholders.

I have a car from 2020 with most of the “modern” safety features. I have most of them off, but I do like the radar cruise control, makes long trips less stressful since it will adapt to traffic in front of me.

and 41 percent use heated windshields.

What are they talking about here, the defroster?

Yeah, fuck that shit. I don’t need a light to come on every time a car is next to me, I can see them with my eyes. Yes I departed the lane, shut up.

One interesting finding relates to driving modes. While almost all new cars have them, just 27.3 percent of respondents say they regularly use their vehicle’s driving mode. Those aged 25 to 34 were more likely to use them, at 38.3 percent.

so what, all these people are always driving in reverse...??

I still trust drivers more than I trust tech.