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The Nissan Rogue actually has a far worse history of incidents of that type. In Nissan’s case, there were multiple cases of snow embankments on the side of the road being interpreted as an obstruction in the roadway. But, because none of the other manufacturers has a history of that type of problem with their AEB system, I have to believe that the fault lies with the systems used by Tesla and Nissan, and not with the concept in general.
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Then you have an EV, when you put it into neutral, it automatically sets the parking brake.
How do you go through the car wash?, you push and hold some button on the dash to release it.
And then have the automatic collision avoidance system engage when the brushes go in front of your car.
What possible unsafe maneuver? I’ve been behind MANY cars (especially in MA) who are driving extremely unsafe. My only option is to BACK-OFF. Give them room. If someone suddenly swerves in front of you and brakes, then you obviously don’t have time to react. That’s why I have a dashcam app on my iPhone. It’s on every time I drive in MA and southern NH.
A couple of people suggested that she might want to take a refresher course on the topic of defensive driving.
Or just maybe an Uber
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Exactly right Mike. There are situations where it is unavoidable even if you’re exercising due care. I actually recently bought a dedicated dash cam. Too many idiots and liars out there. The camera doesn’t lie…
Yep, got me out of a ticket just a few weeks ago.
I was driving the semi truck, some lady cut in front of me to soon, her right rear hit my left front fender, spun her sideways and I pushed sideways down the highway.
Police arrive ask me if I’m OK and asks for my license and paperwork, goes and talks to the lady. Then he walks back to his car, comes back and gives me a ticket for following to close, Never asking me for my side of the story.
Of course I argue with him, He says I’ll have to take it up with the Judge, I said me and my dash cam will be there.
He said you have a dash cam, I show him and tell him I have no access to the video because it’s a company camera,
He said hang on a minute, goes and talks to the lady again.
Comes back to me and said she changed her story and he took the ticket back.
She wasn’t injured either.
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Every accident where I know the details includes one of the drivers telling bald faced lies.
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My neighbor has the “collision avoidance” feature. His garage is small, when the “feature” is on, he can’t fully pull the car in the garage because it “thinks” he’s about to ram into the back of the garage…lol.
No thanks.
Ps. Terrible idea and only leads to more “distracted driving” as people figure the car will stop them from running into something so why not text and drive/
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On most vehicles, it’s pretty easy to turn that feature off. He can’t figure-out how to do that?
I keep mine turned on–except when I am headed to the automatic car wash. Rather than have the system scream at me, I simply turn it off until I have exited from the car wash.
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At the expense of repeating myself and being off topic, on a rainy night a lady in a pick up was yelling at the mic. At an ice cream drive through. In frustration she backed her truck up a full car length right in to me. Police got her statement which was true and filed the report. A couple days later her adjuster said she was changing her story. I said fine but in Minnesota she only has 15 days to file her own accident report and that the penalty for falsifying a public document is severe. They paid the claim that started out at $2000 and was $3000 before the body shop got done.
On the other hand, at work I used to have to write and submit to the Minnesota safety council, any accident reports on our hundred or so cars. No matter what the circumstances, the answers never came back as being unavoidable. Even at a dead stop at a stop light, it was the fault of the driver for not seeing what was happening behind her and allowing enough room to the car ahead to avoid it. Never been an unavoidable accident in their eyes.
So it was my fault for being in line behind a lunatic and not being able to get it in reverse fast enough. I blame my oral surgeon though. Otherwise I wouldn’t have been there.
Yeah, that’s the point, has to be shut off.
This just hit me…I see people pull up behind stopped cars at red lights while looking at their phone. I often think they’re going to rear end the car in front of them, but nope, the car stops…are they using the collision avoidance feature to stop the car so they can get a jump on sending text messages while traffic is stopped?
I wouldn’t doubt it…
On a funnier (but also dangerous) side of this, when some Law Enforcement Agencies 1st got the new Suburban’s with the collision avoidance feature, before they knew anything about it and you could turn if off, got a big surprise the 1st time they tried to do a PIT Maneuver… As a State Trooper said once, “I know every law in the state and how to work a wreck the correct way” but I only know how to put gas in a vehicle…
I got my driver’s license in 1966 and back then, there were a lot more cars with manual transmissions. Consequently there were more cars that seemed to stall out at stoplights, either because of poor maintenance or bad clutch control… I developed the habit of not pulling up closer to the car ahead of me than being able to see the rear tires… On the couple of occasions that the car ahead of me stalled, or whatever, I was able to pull around without having to back up… And on one occasion, many years ago, I was stopped at a light and I heard the scream of locked tires… Instinctually, I flipped the steering wheel towards the right and jumped the curb as the two cars behind me accordioned into the spot I had previously occupied with the car that had been behind me, striking the car I had been behind… Luckily there had been nothing to my right (like a car, pole, people, etc…). So, almost 60-years later, I still stop while I can still see the rear tires of the car ahead…
Yeah that’s what is taught in defensive driving. Also just because the light changes doesn’t mean there are no cars coming through. My drivers training instructor was a former fighter pilot and kind of a hot head. This was back in 1964 but I well remember him getting into a verbal altercation with another hot head.
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