• jj4211@lemmy.world
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    54 minutes ago

    I appreciate the online update/kill switch/repaiarability, lock out concerns, but these systems are surprisingly good for safety

    On an early outing with my kid driving, we were going on a freeway next to a long line of cars waiting at an exit. Well suddenly someone pulls right in front of us, in a way that even if it happened to me I think I would have hit it, and certainly the car couldn’t brake in time and my kid swerved instead, a good call but one I’m sure would have left us running into the ditch at the speed we were going and no experience with that maneuver. However it was like a professional driver, managing to dramatically yank the car around the sudden slow car and neatly back in the lane after avoiding.

    I was shocked my kid pulled that off with only 10 hours of driving experience, turns out the car had an evasive steering assist. Saved our asses.

    Tons of videos about the emergency braking tests that should easily convince anyone of their value to safety.