# Advanced driver assistance systems **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [October 13, 2026, 2:59pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/advanced-driver-assistance-systems/206400 "2026-10-13T14:59:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Mustangman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/mustangman/32/44130_2.png) [@Mustangman](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Mustangman)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2026, 1:55am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/advanced-driver-assistance-systems/206400/42 "2026-10-15T01:55:23Z")
Makes sense to use what you are comfortable with. ---
**Author:** ![ChrisTheTireWhisperer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/christhetirewhisperer/32/34798_2.png) [@ChrisTheTireWhisperer](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ChrisTheTireWhisperer)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2026, 2:05am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/advanced-driver-assistance-systems/206400/43 "2026-10-15T02:05:17Z")
> [@db4690](#): > > ABS šŸ‘ > > Stability control šŸ‘ > > traction control > > TPMS šŸ‘ > > lane-keeping assist > > blind spot warning > > EPS > > disc brakes šŸ‘ Or drum, the equalizer is the one using them. > > adaptive cruise control > > BEVs > > EPB I ā€œšŸ‘ā€ up the items In your list that Iā€™m alright with. I donā€™t know what ā€œBEVā€ or ā€œEPBā€ even stand for, so no comment. Other donā€™t approves: - Slits for windows - Giant infotainment touch screens - Rubber bands for tires mounted on wheels big & wide enough for commercial airliners..! ---
**Author:** ![VOLVO-V70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8e8cbc/32.png) [@VOLVO-V70](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VOLVO-V70)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2026, 2:13am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/advanced-driver-assistance-systems/206400/44 "2026-10-15T02:13:17Z")
> [@ChrisTheTireWhisperer](#): > > I donā€™t know what ā€œBEVā€ or ā€œEPBā€ even stand for, so no comment. I am not going to tell you what they are. If you canā€™t use the web search engines I am not going to do it for you. ---
**Author:** ![ChrisTheTireWhisperer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/christhetirewhisperer/32/34798_2.png) [@ChrisTheTireWhisperer](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ChrisTheTireWhisperer)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2026, 2:15am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/advanced-driver-assistance-systems/206400/45 "2026-10-15T02:15:08Z")
> [@VOLVO-V70](#): > > I am not going to tell you what they are. If you canā€™t use the web search engines I am not going to do it for you. Iā€™m sure another human being here will explain what those stand for. I try not to rely on Google or AI for everything. ---
**Author:** ![ef0118\_196648](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/87869e/32.png) [@ef0118\_196648](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ef0118_196648)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2026, 2:38am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/advanced-driver-assistance-systems/206400/46 "2026-10-15T02:38:26Z")
> [@VDCdriver](#): > > Those same technophobes apparently also think that they are immune to _ever_ making a mistake behind the wheel. Iā€™m new here & not trying to start a fight, but you seem to think technology has never failed us & auto-makers have never lied to us. I just donā€™t get that. Again: Elon lied about Teslaā€™s capabilities. People died as a result. Even if you are ā€œall in,ā€ can you see where some folks still have doubts? (And speaking as a guy whose 1st car was a Ford Pinto, I know this type of thing isnā€™t new). I do not think all of these advancements are bad, but you seem to be labeling any skeptic as a ā€œtechnophobeā€. ---
**Author:** ![Old-Days-Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7feea3/32.png) [@Old-Days-Rick](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Old-Days-Rick)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2026, 3:03am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/advanced-driver-assistance-systems/206400/47 "2026-10-15T03:03:08Z")
> [@ef0118\_196648](#): > > Again: Elon lied about Teslaā€™s capabilities. People died as a result. Elon is a con man just like his buddy! ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bing/32/4619_2.png) [@bing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2026, 3:07am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/advanced-driver-assistance-systems/206400/48 "2026-10-15T03:07:38Z")
Oh for heavens sake kids, EPB is electronic parking brake. If you ever had your brake freeze in the winter, its embarrassing. BEV is battery electric vehicle which doesnt really apply to the discussion. ---
**Author:** ![asemaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@asemaster](https://community.cartalk.com/u/asemaster)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2026, 4:10am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/advanced-driver-assistance-systems/206400/49 "2026-10-15T04:10:33Z")
A real-life example (or two) of how much people rely on, or think they need, driver assist systems to successfully operate a car. A car was a candidate for lemon law buyback. The issue was that once or twice a week the backup camera wouldnā€™t display on the screen. Question: ā€œHow does that affect your ability to safely operate the car?ā€ Answer: ā€œI need the camera to tell if Iā€™ve pulled into the garage far enough to roll the door down.ā€ A pickup owner filed for lemon law relief because the navigation system would sometimes go blue screen. Q: ā€œHow does that affect your ability to safely operate the vehicle?ā€ A: ā€œI was going to Costco and the nav screen went blank so I turned around and went back home.ā€ ---
**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/30_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2026, 5:20am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/advanced-driver-assistance-systems/206400/50 "2026-10-15T05:20:33Z")
> [@ef0118\_196648](#): > > you seem to be labeling any skeptic as a ā€œtechnophobeā€. Youā€™re pretty new here, so you may not be aware that a couple of forum members seem to distrust _all_ new automotive technologies, and they insist that the high point of automotive technology was in the '70s & '80s. Clearly, anything _can_ fail, and newer technologies need some time until they become extremely reliable, but some people seem to automatically reject _anything_ that is ā€œnewā€ā€“even when it has been used for several years. But, this is not a new phenomenon. When Chrysler was the first mfr to include 4 wheel hydraulic brakes in a moderately-priced car, there were people who believed that these brakes were dangerous because they stopped a car ā€œtoo quicklyā€, and b o d i l y injury would be the result of ā€œstopping too fastā€. According to my undergraduate Psych professor, in the early '50s, there was a contingent who claimed that automatic transmissions would cause a driverā€™s left leg to atrophy, because he wasnā€™t using a clutch, ā€œas G o d intendedā€. šŸ˜‰ Going back much further, when steam trains were introduced, there was a fairly wide-spread belief that traveling more than 30 mph would cause our internal organs to ā€œturn to jellyā€, and even traveling at 20 mph would cause ā€œrailway spineā€ and other health problems. A bit later, the introduction of electric lighting caused some people to claim that ā€œbrain fatigueā€ would be the result, and that it was much healthier to use gas lighting (along with the carbon monoxide that it can produce). Much more recently, some people avoided a certain vaccine because they believed that it contained microchips, and that a certain disease was spread via 5G technology. There is nothing wrong with ā€œhealthyā€ skepticism, but the automatic rejection of anything new is an age-old human behavior that frequently has no basis in reality, and which can actually beā€¦ unhealthy. ---
**Author:** ![ChrisTheTireWhisperer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/christhetirewhisperer/32/34798_2.png) [@ChrisTheTireWhisperer](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ChrisTheTireWhisperer)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2026, 7:55am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/advanced-driver-assistance-systems/206400/51 "2026-10-15T07:55:17Z")
> [@bing](#): > > Oh for heavens sake kids, EPB is electronic parking brake. If you ever had your brake freeze in the winter, its embarrassing. BEV is battery electric vehicle Thank you bing. Iā€™ve heard of it referred to as ā€˜E-brakeā€™, yes. Yes, Iā€™m younger than most of you, but younger doesnā€™t always mean ā€˜more acceptingā€™ of newer technologies. Or being more competent at deciphering this new abbreviation-based language people speak these days. ---
**Author:** ![db4690](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/db4690/32/2583_2.png) [@db4690](https://community.cartalk.com/u/db4690)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2026, 12:23pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/advanced-driver-assistance-systems/206400/52 "2026-10-15T12:23:03Z")
you havenā€™t noticed the ā€œBEVā€ and ā€œHEVā€ badges on the trunks and hatches of many vehicles the last few years . . . ? ---
**Author:** ![davesmopar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/davesmopar/32/41750_2.png) [@davesmopar](https://community.cartalk.com/u/davesmopar)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2026, 12:42pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/advanced-driver-assistance-systems/206400/53 "2026-10-15T12:42:41Z")
> [@ChrisTheTireWhisperer](#): > > Iā€™ve heard of it referred to as ā€˜E-brakeā€™, yes E brake is (or used to be anyway) an abbreviation to describe the Emergency Brake, so in short form it is called the E Brakeā€¦ EPB is the acronym for electronic parking brakeā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![davesmopar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/davesmopar/32/41750_2.png) [@davesmopar](https://community.cartalk.com/u/davesmopar)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2026, 12:50pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/advanced-driver-assistance-systems/206400/54 "2026-10-15T12:50:32Z")
> [@db4690](#): > > you havenā€™t noticed the ā€œBEVā€ and ā€œHEVā€ badges on the trunks and hatches of many vehicles the last few years . . . ? Honestly I havenā€™t, but EVā€™s arenā€™t as popular in my area of the world as othersā€¦ I see a hand full of EVā€™s, but mostly I know what they are from seeing them on this form from time to time, or they are Teslaā€™s and they just have a distinct lookā€¦ I see Hybrid and or PHEV on the back of some vehicles, but donā€™t remember seeing BEV or HEV on anyā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/30_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2026, 12:59pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/advanced-driver-assistance-systems/206400/55 "2026-10-15T12:59:32Z")
> [@davesmopar](#): > > I see Hybrid and or PHEV on the back of some vehicles In order to make consumers more aware of the type of vehicles that they might see on the street, last year Toyota changed the model name of one of their PHEVs. The Rav-4 Prime is now the Rav-4 PHEV. ---
**Author:** ![davesmopar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/davesmopar/32/41750_2.png) [@davesmopar](https://community.cartalk.com/u/davesmopar)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2026, 1:00pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/advanced-driver-assistance-systems/206400/56 "2026-10-15T13:00:42Z")
> [@VOLVO-V70](#): > > I am not going to tell you what they are. If you canā€™t use the web search engines I am not going to do it for you. With all due respect, that could be said about most of the stuff asked on this forum, if everybody had the mentality of you need to google (or whatever search engine) it 1st, then nobody would be asking questions, and this forum would be all but uselessā€¦ People use forums to ask questions cause they donā€™t trust search engines, or want confirmation that the search engine was correctā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![ChrisTheTireWhisperer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/christhetirewhisperer/32/34798_2.png) [@ChrisTheTireWhisperer](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ChrisTheTireWhisperer)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2026, 1:20pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/advanced-driver-assistance-systems/206400/57 "2026-10-15T13:20:13Z")
> [@davesmopar](#): > > E brake is (or used to be anyway) an abbreviation to describe the Emergency Brake, so in short form it is called the E Brakeā€¦ > > EPB is the acronym for electronic parking brakeā€¦ With my simplistic mind and desire to not over-think stuff, I always lumped them together as the same thing. In fact, among my family and friends, some call the same thing the ā€œEmergency Brakeā€, others, the ā€œParking Brakeā€(electronic or dinosaur version!) ---
**Author:** ![davesmopar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/davesmopar/32/41750_2.png) [@davesmopar](https://community.cartalk.com/u/davesmopar)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2026, 1:37pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/advanced-driver-assistance-systems/206400/58 "2026-10-15T13:37:28Z")
> [@ChrisTheTireWhisperer](#): > > In fact, among my family and friends, some call the same thing the ā€œEmergency Brakeā€, others, the ā€œParking Brakeā€(electronic or dinosaur version!) An emergency brake and a parking brake are two different names for the exact same mechanical system in your vehicleā€¦ While the industry has largely shifted to using the term ā€œparking brakeā€ because its primary job is to keep a stationary vehicle from rolling, the system was historically engineered as a backup ā€œemergencyā€ stopping methodā€¦ I have driven vehicles with a blown out wheel cylinder while only using the E-brake to slow/stop the vehicle, to get back home or to the shopā€¦ The EPB is just a means of applying the E-brake/parking brakeā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![ChrisTheTireWhisperer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/christhetirewhisperer/32/34798_2.png) [@ChrisTheTireWhisperer](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ChrisTheTireWhisperer)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2026, 2:03pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/advanced-driver-assistance-systems/206400/59 "2026-10-15T14:03:49Z")
> [@davesmopar](#): > > An emergency brake and a parking brake are two different names for the exact same mechanical system in your vehicleā€¦ Thank you! Thatā€™s what I was trying to say in my own convoluted, effed-up way. Man if Iā€™d spent more time outside the house as a teen learning how to talk to other people ā€¦! ---
**Author:** ![MikeInNH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a587f6/32.png) [@MikeInNH](https://community.cartalk.com/u/MikeInNH)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2026, 2:19pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/advanced-driver-assistance-systems/206400/60 "2026-10-15T14:19:04Z")
> [@davesmopar](#): > > An emergency brake and a parking brake are two different names for the exact same mechanical system in your vehicleā€¦ It is commonly referred to as a parking brake - If the hydraulics on the normal brakes fail - people are going to use the parking brake. Theyā€™re not (at least people with an IQ over 50) sit there and think - " Well I canā€™t use the parking brake because thatā€™s only for parking". [Previous page](https://community.cartalk.com/t/advanced-driver-assistance-systems/206400.md?page=2)