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?
@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.
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Do you usually use modern car driving aids if and when you drive?
did not vote because only one choice allowed but more than one applies
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Do you usually use modern car driving aids if and when you drive?
@furrfu my car does not have those features... But I drive
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Do you usually use modern car driving aids if and when you drive?
@furrfu I'm currently in driving school. The car I'm going to drive once I have my license (my mom's 2001 VW Golf) has none of these. -
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