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Admittedly, I can be classified as one of those "Driver™" people (I've been to a track day with my previous car, for instance). But, here're a few examples of a system like this messing up in slow driving scenarios.

In a traditional European city with lots of tight, one-way streets, illegal side-walk parking on them, or short time window available to merge into congested traffic, I'm seeing my 2020 Volvo constantly complain thinking it's about to have a collision with a parked car as you drive around potholes (and point a car slightly to parked car's tail), or abruptly breaking as you slowly reverse back into street from a parking spot because of incoming traffic (eg. other driver behind in the street slowing down to let you merge but not fully stopping, a pedestrian anywhere in the ~8m radius regardless of the direction they are going, or "cross-traffic" coming from the other direction not crossing your lane). I get automated braking happen at least few times a month (I started ignoring collision warnings, so I have no idea how common they are), and I don't even drive that much (35kkm over 3+ years).

OTOH, I did see it react and break properly at exactly the same time as I pressed on the brake pedal when another car unexpectedly cut in front of my car 2 times over the last 3 years: so I appreciate the system being there and I hope it will react even if I am not attentive enough, and I am not looking to turn it off.

But is it annoying and overall stupid? Yes. Could other systems be much smarter than the one in my car? Oh, yes, and I hope they are!




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