I rent cars often, and am frequently annoyed with active safety features. Among the worst: lane departure warnings, adaptive cruise control, and an eye-tracking device that scolds me every time I scan the environment for traffic hazards. These technologies will drive me away from new cars and trucks…

Maybe there was language confusion, and it was not a choke per se. Maybe an anti-theft device or…

[image] shanonia: Maybe there was language confusion, and it was not a choke per se. Maybe an anti-theft device or… +1 Definitely NOT a manual choke, unless the OP rented a true anomaly of a car with modern “active safety” features, and a carbureted engine from several decades ago.

The only problem with adaptive cruise control that I’ve seen is that it is more conservative than most drivers when it comes to following distance, which seems like a feature, not a bug. Aren’t most of these features optional? Can’t you turn them off? If I was renting cars to customers, I’d make …

[image] shadowfax: In short: If the safety systems annoy you, it’s probably 'cause you’re driving like crap. :wink: Ha! Good point!

Have read reports of adaptive cruise equipped f150’s slamming on the brakes when passing a tanker truck or going under overpasses. Random oddball encounters that somehow trip the sensors if the sun is at the right angle. I believe that was early on, and they’ve fixed the bugs. Still, I don’t want to…

One cure for adaptive cruise control is don’t turn the cruise control on.

The poster with the manual choke experience said absolutely nothing about the car having active safety features. I am guessing a third world country.

Yeah, I was thinking India, even though it isn’t third world. They do have no frills cars still since a substantial part of the population is very poor.

I like the adaptive cruise control. The only downsides to me are you may end up following a car going 10 under and not realize it, when you move to a clear lane it is a little more aggressive getting up to speed than I would be, and it uses the brakes more than I would. Cheap as i am i like to save …

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George_San_Jose1 August 29, 2019, 12:51am 14

Not annoyed, but not impressed either. I recently posted a comparison of the Corolla, 1992 vs 2019, link below. While the 2019 has the back-up camera which I like, overall I prefer the 1992 version.

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