Do you usually use modern car driving aids if and when you drive?
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Do you usually use modern car driving aids if and when you drive?
If I may follow up here; I was rather specific about which technologies I asked about because I was wonder how people feel about their mandatory inclusion in many modern cars. So these are the options that take over some of the "decisions" of driving. There are of course other more or less useful technologies.
I forgot about the internet being the internet, and didn't include old cars, since I figured that was implied by the question. But I can't edit a poll in progress without invalidating it…
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Do you usually use modern car driving aids if and when you drive?
@furrfu
My car is old so doesn't have these, just basic cruise. If it did I wouldn't use them though. -
Do you usually use modern car driving aids if and when you drive?
@furrfu If my car had any of those, I might use them. But it doesn’t, so I don’t.
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@furrfu If my car had any of those, I might use them. But it doesn’t, so I don’t.
@furrfu I’m actually surprised how quickly my 2016 Prius became an “old car” in that sense. But I’m not complaining.
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Do you usually use modern car driving aids if and when you drive?
@furrfu my car doesn't have these
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Do you usually use modern car driving aids if and when you drive?
@furrfu I use cruise control when possible, but it's the one where you set the speed, and it just keeps it. No radar adjustments, no assistance in any other way. So can't really vote.
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Do you usually use modern car driving aids if and when you drive?
@furrfu I have an old car.
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Do you usually use modern car driving aids if and when you drive?
@furrfu my car has some of those features and it does like to warn me about stuff but 3/4 of the time it is wrong.
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Do you usually use modern car driving aids if and when you drive?
@furrfu
My 19 yr old car is back in the garage again this week to fix the brakes. I'll settle for working brakes -
Do you usually use modern car driving aids if and when you drive?
Apart from automatic parking, if the car has it I use it.
So all of the first three plus driver profiles, remote start and lock/unlock, remote programming of navigation, trip journalling, blind spot warning lidar, 360 cameras with front and rear proximity sensors, automatic braking, stability control, etc.
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Do you usually use modern car driving aids if and when you drive?
I drive a car, not a computer. Doesn't have any of that. Weird, I know.
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Do you usually use modern car driving aids if and when you drive?
@furrfu you've missed out "no, I drive a car without modern assistance features"
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Do you usually use modern car driving aids if and when you drive?
I don't think I've ever driven a car with any of those features.
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Do you usually use modern car driving aids if and when you drive?
@furrfu My car is from 2023, but it's a Ford, so it has the latest 2003 technology.
I would love the cruise control, hate the lane assist stuff.
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@mjr No, I really only wanted to ask about the most "modern" driver aids listed; mostly because I wanted to have an idea of how people treat them when they are available — are people happy to have them, or not?
(So far the poll skews to the latter.)
@furrfu my usual car doesn't have most of the ones you list. What aids it does have mostly are more things that break and beep warnings and are annoying. I'd like my next car to have fewer complex subsystems, but electric cars seem to have more and more of them, which is depressing and slows me replacing the car.
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@furrfu my usual car doesn't have most of the ones you list. What aids it does have mostly are more things that break and beep warnings and are annoying. I'd like my next car to have fewer complex subsystems, but electric cars seem to have more and more of them, which is depressing and slows me replacing the car.
@mjr Yes; we recently ordered a new (electric) car and the first thing I checked during the test drive was how easy it was to turn off these systems (two taps on the touch screen; could be worse)...
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Do you usually use modern car driving aids if and when you drive?
@furrfu my car doesn't have any of the above, but I do at least sometimes use the rear reversing camera.
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Do you usually use modern car driving aids if and when you drive?
@furrfu I find cruise control to be very useful on *all* roads for maintaining a constant legal speed.
It’s particularly useful where speed limits seem artificially low. There’s a 30MPH limit on the A20 near us that bisects a village that doesn’t narrow from its 60MPH section.
The only minor issue I have with adaptive cruise is sometimes going a bit slower than intended when I could’ve overtaken a while back.
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@furrfu I find cruise control to be very useful on *all* roads for maintaining a constant legal speed.
It’s particularly useful where speed limits seem artificially low. There’s a 30MPH limit on the A20 near us that bisects a village that doesn’t narrow from its 60MPH section.
The only minor issue I have with adaptive cruise is sometimes going a bit slower than intended when I could’ve overtaken a while back.
@daycoder I agree, especially when average speed limits are enforced. My car also has a speed limit function in the cruise control that's equally handy in very low 30kmh/20mph zones.
The results of the poll also seem to indicate that adaptive cruise is the most popular of tech (that was listed) used...
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@mjr Yes; we recently ordered a new (electric) car and the first thing I checked during the test drive was how easy it was to turn off these systems (two taps on the touch screen; could be worse)...
@furrfu which one was that? Might be a useful starting point.
