Do you think adaptive cruise control is really useful? How about lane keep assistant, blind spot monitoring, etc? What else, you name it. I'm buying a new car and considering an upgrade with these features.
Have emergency braking, it is law that when you hit you will be at fault, with crazy drivers in bay area it is better to have it, it also comes with stop and go traffic which is a plus !!
When you are stuck in traffic, adaptive cruise control will be very useful
Same, I found this to be really useful sometimes, but it doesn’t do a good job of keeping the distance close / and it doesn’t react soon enough for merging traffics, so I often have to manually brake hard for those line cutters.
Which car(s) have you had that experience with? Considering it in my next
Most civic and even corolla level cars come with those features included... adaptive cruise control helps with stop and go traffic which takes off a lot of stress. The question is if you’re buying a new car it’ll likely have the feature already unless you’re buying a car that’s 3-4 years old. All these features are safety aids which helps you avoid accidents so I think you should welcome them. It does cost more in German cars if you want these whereas they’re more or less included on several Japanese cars
A lot of drivers are shit, so yeah they do help. For the rest of us who understand how to operate a car and don’t text while driving, they’re not as useful
They’re all useful! I can’t imagine driving without them. Adaptive cruise control, is like set and forget. Lane keep assist is useful on curvy mountain roads. Blind spot monitoring is awesome when driving large vehicle when even head turns won’t cover everything
Get a Tesla. Use most of those features.
I still drive a manual. All I need is ABS. I can actually drive though and enjoy driving
I’m a frugal guy with a shitty car. But when I drove my sisters car 350 miles then Adaptive Cruise Control was awesome. However, the lane alert annoyed the hell out of me.
Love adaptive cruise. Blind spot is nice. Lane keeping is annoying AF. (Volvo)
Yes, especially useful for new drivers.
Seems harmful to new drivers to me because they won’t learn to drive without a bunch of fancy electronics.