Comment by ics

I wrote up a long comment that got scrapped by my focus filter but I feel the need to voice strong agreement here. I have a recent Mazda which in almost all ways is my perfect car except for the newfangled safety features all new cars seem to have. Lane correction and emergency braking, even set to the lowest sensitivity levels, are bad to outright dangerous in city (and some country) driving. In NYC it's common to have multiple road lines crossing during construction which by default has lead my car to try steering into cyclists or barriers. It can't read the lane because the lane is not properly marked but that's typical. So I disabled it. Emergency braking is a bit harder for me to understand when it kicks in but I've done whatever I can to keep it off. Twice it caused a hard brake in the middle of traffic with my newborn in the back and almost got me rear-ended. Another time it detected another car ahead of me but technically in the next lane and warned that it was about to hard brake in the rain on the Williamsburg Bridge inner roadway which is... tight to say the least. If there's a future where these features are rigorously tested for worst case scenarios in different driving environments and somehow universally implemented across manufacturers... maybe.