100℅ this. Lane departure seems far more dangerous on than off.
MonkRome
joined 3 years ago
The problem with some of these "safety" features is they malfunction at such a high rate they seem more likely to kill me than save my life. They also don't anticipate future consequence in any way.
The collision detection malfunctions regularly giving a loud beep or applying breaks when nothing is ahead.
The lane departure does not understand situations where you had someone wander into your lane and you may drive onto the shoulder quickly before signalling. I don't need my car fighting me while im making the correct call. I also think having the car take over, even gently, is so startling that it could cause the accident it was meant to prevent. If I'm startled I might over correct and lose control. While that has never happened, with everything considered, it seems safer to leave some of these features off.
I don't need to be an early adopter on flawed technology that could get me killed.
My car has micro wires in the front window, smaller than the ones in the back. Maybe it refers to this?
Yes, just what aurora app store detects loaded in the app.
YouTube just has google firebase analytics (which I also don't want)
8 trackers from 6 different companies, hard pass.
There are all kinds of things that the law says to do that isn't optimal. Sometimes the right thing to do isn't ideological, but realistic and practical. I agree everyone should collectively slow down, not because its lawful but because it is safer. But until they do, I will always pick the safer option over what is lawful. Lawfulness is not a barometer of ethics, its a tool of power.
Nowhere in the article does it say that. Your ego is more important than your own life or the life of others, that tracks with both of your comments.
the core insight remains widely accepted in traffic engineering: deviation from the average traffic speed, especially on high-speed roads, is a significant risk factor.
Certainly it is safer if everyone everyone drives the speed limit, lowering the speed of traffic. But that's not realistically what happens. I'm talking about when you are around other cars that are all going over the limit. The difference in speed between vehicles is also dangerous. When you drive slower than traffic you become a hazard and bottleneck that raises the danger of everyone near you. Better to be alive than "right".
The title is clickbait, its really about difference in speed: https://seasia.co/2025/09/05/driving-slower-is-actually-more-dangerous-than-driving-fast
Challenge your assumptions.
The safest speed to go is the speed of traffic. If the limit is 55 and you are driving 52 but everyone else is driving 62, you are the most dangerous person on the road.
Is the link dead, or is it because I'm on their ban list?
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Except every car I've ever seen it implemented in malfunctions 1000 times more than it ever works properly. I always signal and find lane departure to be incredibly dangerous. If you trust your cars algorithm more than your own eyes, I don't trust you on the road.