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He thought his car's crash-prevention technology would make him safer

4 pointsby colinprince5 months ago

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MarkusWandel5 months ago
My car (2023 Honda Civic) apparently has the &quot;slam on the brakes at the last possible instance before crashing into something&quot; feature. I say apparently because how am I going to test it? Glad to say it hasn&#x27;t false triggered.<p>The adaptive cruise control has done spurious braking, but not too hard andonly at night when there are lots of oncoming glaring headlights. That&#x27;s when I wish you could disable the adaptive part, but you can&#x27;t. The other slightly alarming thing was that after repeatedly observing it slowing all the way to a stop as the car in front does, once it didn&#x27;t! The car in front braked fairly hard to make a left turn, but then had to wait for oncoming traffic to clear. I wanted to see what ours would do. Slam right into him, that&#x27;s what (and then had to brake really hard to avoid that). For some reason it missed the cue. So yeah, full driver attention required. That said, adaptive cruise control is a huge boon for stretches of highway with no passing opportunity for 100+ kilometres and loooong convoys behind one 70km&#x2F;h slowpoke (Highway 7, for Ontarians). Instead of frayed nerves and endless lookout for <i>maybe</i> a queue jumping opportunity... just put on the adaptive cruise control and chill. Works for me.