Reply To: Are there too many ‘distractions’ in new cars?

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Tharg
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    Too many distractions?  Bloody right!  Not just beeps and bongs, either, Much more distracting and dangerous are those “safety” features which take over the steering and brakes when their computer says so. Well, the compu say-so is often well wrong. Recently had a proximity sensor (VW ID.3) detach from its mount which caused permanent, loud bleeping and emergency-stop brakes all the time.  Also had emergency stop in ordinary traffic (VW T-Roc) for absolutely no apparent reason (wrong sort of leaves?).  Lane-following another nightmare: taking over steering on simple single-carriageway.

    So, have to spend around a minute turning off all those factors and a number of others before setting off. A right pain in the posterior but safer than being pushed into a collision by a computer that got it wrong.