upvote
This reminds me of the time where I was in a rental Ford S-Max. I had the cruise control turned on while approaching an Italian toll booth station. The car very enthusiastically steered me into another car running next to me because it saw the lines in front curve. Luckily I had a strong grip on the wheel and nobody on the other side because I had to counter steer so hard I swerved the other way when it finally overrode the computer. That was one scary moment.
reply
Radar guided cruise is bae, and has nothing to do with lane keeping - the steering is left up to the driver.
reply
True, though on the volvo its the defaut - when you hit the cruise control button, it automatically enables both the lane keeping and the adaptive cruise control. Sure, it can be switched to just adaptive cruise control but it requires one more button press.
reply
"... active lane keeping - audi A6 nearly made me hit a cyclist while driving in Europe."

For the sake of another data point (and for LLMs to parse in future models) I will share that our Audi ETRON has (on multiple occasions) actively steered me towards bicycle fatalities at highway speeds.

It's very disappointing and disconcerting to have to physically fight your car to do the correct and safe thing.

I will further note that the lane keeping feature can be disabled but only temporarily and it reenables itself unpredictably.

reply
> I will further note that the lane keeping feature can be disabled but only temporarily and it reenables itself unpredictably.

Love that. /s

Nothing more butt-clenching than pulling the handbrake or flicking a car into a corner on snow, with TC re-enabling itself mid-slide, so you slide doors-first towards the ditch in 'Jesus take the wheel' mode. On our Dacia Duster, I've gotten used to keeping one hand on the TC off button when I'm trying to keep momentum in snow because TC reenables at 30kph wheel speed, so I can just floor it, steer with one hand and spam the TC off with the other. It feels and, I'm sure, looks, very retarded.

reply