I know what you mean Mitch! . I like new technology, but some of it has negative consequences. The front collision assist system on our Tiguan was a nightmare. Like yours, it was too sensitive (even on the least sensitive setting – I’m sure you know, but you can usually set them to early / normal or late in terms of reaction sensitivity). On two or three occasions the car did an emergency brake, once on a motorway (triggered by a shadow cast by a bridge) and once in the rain when moments before we were being tailgated by a van.
I didn’t like the adaptive cruise on the VW either, as it would brake unnecessarily and take far too long to build back up to speed when a car I was following had turned off into a side road. The adaptive headlights were far too slow to react as well which, at times, was quite dangerous. Our BMW has forward assist and adaptive headlights, but both work properly and we just have normal cruise control again which I much prefer. Thankfully we still have knobs and buttons for the climate control, heated seats etc. The trend towards these things being on touch screens is a definite backward step IMHO.