Lane Assist

[Munroast]

does anyone remotely like this deeply annoying thing that seems to be on all new cars now ? have to switch it off every time you start engine

Is it working in cahoots with the pot holes ?, try to move away from the pot hole and the stupid lane assist tries to force yo back into it

What a horrible thing to become mandory on (all?) new cars and vans

 

[norseman]

Usual story, something totally unnecessary for a shrinking band that actually know how to drive, becomes a must-have item for poor souls that really need self-driving cars.

 

[Alec_t]

Probably a useful feature in America, with its long straight sections of inter-state highway, so that the drivers can take a nap .
My car has it, but there's a switch 'conveniently' located just near a knee position, such that it can accidentally get enabled when the driver enters the car. It gets really annoyed by all the white lines in a Tesco car park!

 

[Koolpc]

I have lane assist......there are 4 stabilisers on my car...

 

[Munroast]

I have lane assist......there are 4 stabilisers on my car...

 

[Koolpc]

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OMG!!!!!!!!! Thats my Aunt!!!!

 

[Mottie]

does anyone remotely like this deeply annoying thing that seems to be on all new cars now ? have to switch it off every time you start engine

Is it working in cahoots with the pot holes ?, try to move away from the pot hole and the stupid lane assist tries to force yo back into it

What a horrible thing to become mandory on (all?) new cars and vans

We have it on our car. We also have a constant 'bong' and our speed flashes on the dash and on the HUD when we exceed the speed limit for the road we are on. I like the lane assist on motorways, combined with the automatic cruise control, it make driving on those roads effortless. To disable the lane assist and the excess speed reminder, I just have to press and hold one button on each side of the steering wheel for a couple of seconds when I start off and I’ve done that before I’m even halfway down my road - it’s just second nature now. What I can’t disable (although I have turned it down) is the automatic braking if I get too near a stationary vehicle but mostly that happens when I’m driving like a knob so that’s my fault! I did have someone anchor up quickly in front of me once and it slammed the brakes on before I had even hit the brake pedal so could be a good thing.

 

[Diver Fred]

Sounds like you have a 'the car in front' - it drive me nuts in Sicily forever fighting the steering. Eventually found the button to disable the feature, mind you the worst bit about the car was the 'BONG' as you drive past a speed sign and screen in the middle of the dashboard brightly illuminated white light, never found out how to switch it off.
Wife's Jazz has lane assist, has to be enabled every time you wish to use it.

 

[Brigadier]

You can turn all the aids and bongs off very easily in mine, bar one : the reversing bongs.
Apparently, because they're considered to be utterly essential for safety, they cannot be disabled at all.

KIA EV6, btw.

 

[johnny2007]

Here is an idea for the millions driving without a licence in UK nowadays.
An automatic head strap that turns your head in the direction you should be looking when driving.
Yesterday I was on my scooter with my daugher on the back, driving down an A road, another licence-less Prius driver pulls out of a side road on my left whilst looking on his left.
Fortunately no cars were coming the other way so I swerved all the way to the right kerb.
The brainless driver thought he had done nothing wrong when submerged by cursing.
If he had a device forcing him to look right first and then left before joining the main road, he would've seen me.
I'm still convinced that at least a fifth of drivers in London don't have a licence.

 

[Mottie]

I'm still convinced that at least a fifth of drivers in London don't have a licence.

Wrong. They all have the same licence as they share it….

 

[Munroast]

I wasn't really asking if you can turn them off, i think you can in all, but on new cars they turn on after ever restart

I was more curious if anyone liked the lane assist, we have it on the car and the van and its just horrible, feels like a loss of control

can turn the crap off in my van via three buttons on the screen, but the option takes about a minute to appear which is quite a wait - i wonder how many people turn these things off whilst driving, and will this distraction cause even more danger ?

 

[norseman]

That's exactly what I'm talking about, the inabilities of so many that need these devices for their own safety & that of others.
I'm of the opinion that most of today's car drivers are smartphone savvy but technically inept & the designers of these technology enabled cars are cashing in on that, both at the manufacturing stage & at the dealer's repair facilities.

 

[davelx]

When I first had my ID4 the lane assist was vicious and couldn't tell the difference between the centre line and a bus stop marking. On one occasion it tried to pull me to the right into oncoming traffic.

Fortunately much more gentle and easier to overrule now after a software update. It still doesnt understand UK road marking though.

It can be turned off but it's a couple of screens down and of course comes back on next time you start up.