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A car which tells you when you're about to reverse into the path of another car is safer. I don't really know what to tell you. It's obviously safer.

by hephaes7us7 hours ago|

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Sure, but that's a different kind of safety than _crash_ safety.

Plenty of people (rightly or wrongly) are confident in their ability to prevent accidents. Or, at least, confident enough to be skeptical of the tradeoffs involved with these assistive systems.

If I had to choose between a car that has high survivability in a crash versus a car that how worse survivability in a crash but has a few assistive systems that can prevent some crashes (which, mostly, I already prevent by paying attention), I'd choose the former every time.

by formerly_proven2 hours ago|

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> Sure, but that's a different kind of safety than _crash_ safety.

It literally is not. Both are crash safety systems, active and passive, respectively. The active category also includes things like ABS and ESP.

> (which, mostly, I already prevent by paying attention)

This is an extremely well researched area (car crashes cause trillions in dollars of damages annually and therefore get a lot of attention) and not to the support of your stance.

by swiftcoder4 hours ago|

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Yeah, those sensors are great (and, incidentally, even the budget model of the Dacia Sandero has them).

The ones that are less great are the attention sensors they mandated in last-year's models. I test-drove a Kia EV3 a couple of months back, and they've set that sensor up so that even a brief glance at your instrument cluster can ring the attention chime...