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It's the specter of future products with ever more "just sit back and let the car do all these things for you" stuff that's indigestible for some of us. Norm
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Complain all you want. All these "nannies" save lives.
That's like complaining because you don't want to wear a seat belt. Or like that guy who thinks he's good at racing so he turns off traction control and stability control at the track, and then bounces off the wall and blames the car... That being said... I do like turning them off to do an all american burnout.
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How dare you. A horse is much faster than a steam engine you fustilarian.
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Statistically, of course. Individually? Not necessarily.
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Besides the first sentence I was being mildly sarcastic, even if there is some truth to it in a way. If you leave the nannies on however, there's a better chance of you being ok in a situation where you were distracted, vs if you didn't have the car slowing down for you. As far as buckling up. It can also be your choice to disable certain features like lane departure warning or blind spot detection. That's where I was going with that. And no. I was talking about people who are wayyy too overconfident in their abilities. You know... The Mustang guy who leaves the car-show doing a burnout around a corner and then wonder why they took out half the crowd. (Hah! Got a Mustang joke in there. Zing! ) But really. I was just saying they help. Not that everyone necessarily needs/wants them. However, if you're in a car that has them, and you turn them off, and then subsequently end up in an accident, you may end up wishing you had them on.
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Well, sorry, it won't..lol.. It only works for a car directly in front of you. The car must first detect a vehicle traveling in front of you...that may take a few seconds, and only if it's directly in front of you, not off to the side...You will get a green car symbol on the dash when it detects a vehicle.(it will turn amber if you are following too close)... Forward Collision Alert (it's 8 beeps and flashing red lights on the windshield in your view)...will activate if it thinks you may not brake in time. You must do the braking, it won't do it for you.
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I've seen plenty of people make mistakes leaving C&C. It definitely doesn't help when you have idiots sitting there encouraging it. Our old C&C location got shut down after too many people were doing burnouts and a Hyundai Genesis lost control and hit a tree. :/
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