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BMW eye contact lane change feature.

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Vehicles are equipped with steering wheels for a reason. learn to use them, not technology.

Neat technology, but I hate this feature. "Hey look a cow!" Car veers off into a turning lane.

Imagine driving through downtown at lunchtime with this feature left on.
Now, imagine how you’d explain to cops why you hopped the curb, nearly plowing into a group of pretty girls walking back to work. :(

Years ago, as a State Trooper, I used to regularly ticket a woman who repeatedly drove down the highway steering mostly with her knees while she put on her makeup using the rear-view mirror and drivers' side, side mirror, I can only imagine how many accidents she would have with this feature.

She finally got mad at me for constantly ticketing her, last time I stopped her I found her license had been suspended, which was an automatic arrest, driving with a suspended license, she made it worse, stepped out of the car and slapped me.

She got 10 years for battery on a peace officer.

It is for highway use only and there a couple steps to go through before the lane change, the car doesnt dance all over road as you check out the "scenery".

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Originally Posted by Frank S

Vehicles are equipped with steering wheels for a reason. learn to use them, not technology.

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I am in total agreement. Perhaps a new safety feature should be the brakes automatically apply if you don't have at least one hand on the wheel. What if you were just checking your rear view mirrors for some joker pacing you in your blind spot. <--¿-->

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Originally Posted by RetiredFAE

Years ago, as a State Trooper, I used to regularly ticket a woman who repeatedly drove down the highway steering mostly with her knees while she put on her makeup using the rear-view mirror and drivers' side, side mirror, I can only imagine how many accidents she would have with this feature.

She finally got mad at me for constantly ticketing her, last time I stopped her I found her license had been suspended, which was an automatic arrest, driving with a suspended license, she made it worse, stepped out of the car and slapped me.

She got 10 years for battery on a peace officer.

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Yeah, Zsa Zsa Gabor is the only one who could get away with that.

Brakes automatically applying if you take one hand off the steering wheel won't work in a manual transmission car, but then, there are fewer of those made every year (sadly!), and it would have to be disabled on any emergency vehicle with an automatic, can't operate the radio mic otherwise, and a VOX switch on the radio in an emergency vehicle doesn't work too well, especially when running code with lights and siren.

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Originally Posted by RetiredFAE

Brakes automatically applying if you take one hand off the steering wheel won't work in a manual transmission car, but then, there are fewer of those made every year (sadly!), and it would have to be disabled on any emergency vehicle with an automatic, can't operate the radio mic otherwise, and a VOX switch on the radio in an emergency vehicle doesn't work too well, especially when running code with lights and siren.

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I think the previous post stated the brakes should apply if at least one hand were holding the wheel. But I see that as yet another bit of added technology to eventually fail. as far as brakes automatically applying on vehicles with manual transmissions would not be a big step. I've owned trucks with manual transmissions which had cruise controls step on the brake the cruise disconnected, or step on the clutch the cruise would disconnect. Easy enough to configure one with automatic braking to disconnect the clutch
A lot of vehicles are equipped with crash avoidance braking already, which is increasingly becoming standard as a combat against inattentive drivers.
Not that my opinion matters but I think everyone should have to experience the same thing my kids experienced before they got their learners permits back in the 80s. They rode around Dallas several times with me in a truck pulling a 2+2+2 lowboy trailer sometimes bigger trailers and sometimes just a regular flatbed They were exposed firsthand to what it is like in the cab of a rig that was sometimes 90 feet long, and what truckers had to put up with in traffic. My youngest will be 50 next year neither of them have ever been involved in an accident that they caused.

Grew up on a cattle ranch in the 40's and 50's, each farm truck and tractor, etc. had multiple sets of wood blocks under the seat, different heights, labeled with each kid's name, so that any of us could drive that vehicle and reach the pedals.
Before we got our drivers licenses, we learned to back a tractor (semi tractor, our old Alison Chalmers chain drive) first with no trailer, then one trailer, then doubles. When we got so that we could maneuver through the "course" Pop set out for us backward with just the side mirrors, then we learned to drive them going forward with all the windows uncovered.

Other than being unavoidably hit by drunk drivers, none of the 6 of us has ever had an accident, and I'm the youngest at 77, the oldest is 92.
So that early training as you say Frank, pays off!