@sagittonius I feel your pain. As has already been said, many of these features are now mandated BUT different manufacturers have different degrees of obtrusiveness and ease of disabling. My favourite YouTube car reviewer is Harry Metcalfe (former co founder of EVO magazine whose channel is called Harry’s Garage) and the first thing that he does before test driving any car is turn these systems off. He recently slated one car (from memory a £300k Ferrari) as it was so convoluted to turn the systems off (menu after menu etc) whereas the next car he drove (might have been an Aston Martin) he praised as it was a one button press and done.
I have a Hyundai which, as you may know, is from the same stable as Kia. These brands seem to be the worst for bings and bongs and, like you, it drives me demented, so much so that I don’t enjoy driving the car because of it and don’t think I’d get another. I don’t find the lane assist to be too bad, as my car defaults to it being off and I have to enable it (unless I activate cruise when it comes on automatically). The speed limit assist is a complete pain in the a@se though. Like yours, it detects speed limit signs that don’t apply to the road I’m on (for example, there’s a lane that runs off a road I use regularly that has a 20 mph sign at its entrance, and every time I drive past it on the 60 mph main road I’m binged at telling me I should be doing 20 mph).
I’m sure that they all do this, but what really gets my goat is the fact that Hyundai feel that you need four bings every time that you exceed the speed limit by just 1 mph. If it binged just once I’d leave it on, as I could zone it out and, on occasions, it would be useful, but four times is excessive. You can turn it off with a long press of the radio mute button on the steering wheel, but often this will mute the radio instead and if you are on a phone call it will mute the call! On some days I am in and out of the car half a dozen times and having to disable it every single time is beyond irritating. As well as reducing to one bing, I’d also like the ability to set the warning to trigger at, say, 3 mph over, given that I’m not going to get a speeding ticket for going 1 mph over the limit 🙄 But you can’t. @kezo sent me a YouTube video on a mechanic permanently disabling the speed limit warning, but this also removes the speed limit sign from the dash and head up display, which I wouldn’t want to do.
Even with the Speed Limit Assist off, the car still bings at great frequency and, like you, I have absolutely no idea why. There’s nothing on the dash or head up display to tell me why and it really gets on my nerves, as I find it so distracting. I am seriously considering buying a car that’s a few years old that doesn’t have all these distracting bings and bings so that I can rediscover the pleasure of driving again, something that I have completely lost with the Hyundai.