More annoying shit. I already have to turn off lane detection because it beeps and shakes the wheel when I’m driving along normal Irish roads. Emergency brake alert often flashes up even when I’m driving in a straight line with nothing ahead, it can be triggered by a bush on a bend. The tech just isn’t there yet. Maybe on a nice straight motorway it might be of use but i find it actually more distracting and dangerous than without, same as this touchscreen everything crap, just bad ergonomics allowing the manufacturers to save a few cents.
That’s interesting. I guess it would be a factor in a court case if you were e.g. in a crash and had disabled some of these features.
I wonder (seriously) could the emergency braking thing make drivers lazy and not observant enough?
alcohol interlock installation facilitation? Who has this installed in their cars?
Its the roads that are currently shit, not the cars. The fancy safety features in my car cannot cope with the state of many roads i drive on. Insufficient lane widths, markings worn off, narrow country roads with an 80kph. But we can’t sort that stuff out because that would mean actually spending money.
“It operates using a front-facing camera which reads speed limit signs. This data can be combined with GPS mapping in the vehicle’s software, enabling the car to know the current speed limits along its route.”
Government will track and monitor you. Good luck with that.
Front facing camera which rrads speed limit signs? They can’t even read plate numbers of idling traffic violators in the city.
I call BS.
No wonder the second hand market is so expensive. People can’t afford all this stuff adding to the price of new cars.
Simple solution.
Have Garda do the job and enforce traffic violation charges.
If Garda is not sufficient, use traffic light cameras to capure plate numbers of cars doing traffic violations and send the traffic ticket via post to be paid on or before the next motor tax renewal.
If cameras are not sufficient, let society submit video evidences of traffic violations of other cars. Fine the violators and reward the citizen with the same amount of fine less tax.
More stepping stones on our way to becoming government owned cattle
So let’s reduce personal responsibility and treat people like idiots by accepting the lowest common denominator as the standard and at the same time as reduce the perceived skills needed to drive.
But not actually, because the technology isn’t up to standard, sounds good to me
People give out about these systems, particularly lane assist – however they are usually shite drivers that do not know how to use their indicators.
Lane assist is a life saving technology. For example if that driver that crashed on the ringaskiddy road a few months ago had lane assist they wouldn’t have drifted across the line.
What about the environment? Creating new cars is so much worse than maintaining the existing fleet
I had a bmw with emergency brake assist and it was unbelievably brilliant
It saved me on 2 occasions when I (guilty i know) got distracted (not phone, it child passenger) and the car ahead stopped suddenly in traffic
It was very impressive
Some complaining about it, but I think its down to shitty cheap tech in those models
The alerts for speeding can be turned off because it’s such an imposition to poor motorists to have to obey the law.
A few select vehicles implement feedback via the accelerator pedal, but most vehicles only employ audio and visual warnings. ISA can be switched off or temporarily overridden by the driver at any time by continuing to apply pressure to the accelerator pedal. Can you turn it off?
It can be switched off but GSR2 requirements mandate that the feature is reenabled- automatically switched back on – every time the car is started.
There will be some bitching and moaning about this
Most of this is good and welcome. But I fear much if it is designed for the roads in Germany etc which we only get around Dublin and some major cities here. For example the idea of a camera to read the speed signs. That is very good. If only we had signs. Because in Ireland the speed signs are mainly at the end of the road you are leaving not the road you just joined you can go 10 or 15 km without passing a sign. On a road that might be 100 or might be 80 there should be signs every couple of KM. Even just painted on the road. They do that on the continent and in the US.
And as for lane assist. I paid extra to have that in my current car and I’ve had to switch it off. That’s great when you are on wide modern roads in France or Germany with clear markings and hedges trimmed back. But in rural Ireland the roads were designed at a time when good design was just wide enough for two single donkey carts to pass each other. And now because they don’t seem to want to worry the birds and wildlife hedges dont get trimmed back in summer unless they are “dangerous” and 2 or 3 feet into the road. So you have no choice but to keep close to the line and the lane assist constantly goes off telling me I’m too close to the line. Not over it but close to it. In Ireland you can have your radar on the passenger side warning you that you are too close to the overgrown hedge and the lane assist vibrating your steering wheel to warn you you are too close to the middle line. It’s getting to the point that’s the way to know you are in the sweet spot in the middle of your lane.
So I hope that the car manufacturers allow for this by scanning all around the car and using GPS so that the car can adapt to the realities of Irish roads. But I fear they will just throw in cheap systems designed for the German autobahn and nothing else.
Looks like used car prices are going to keep increasing.
Jesus, we have bottle return schemes, mandatory driver safety systems (which are unreliable), and no houses to live in.
When the general election comes around, they need to hear us.
Why not install speed limiters like Japan, so no one can break the national limit or alcohol locks like on the buses in France? Easy tech that could be retrofitted to current models and installed in all new vehicles.
Seems there is technology that can save lives and prevent reckless decisions being made. I’ll not hold my breath though.
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More annoying shit. I already have to turn off lane detection because it beeps and shakes the wheel when I’m driving along normal Irish roads. Emergency brake alert often flashes up even when I’m driving in a straight line with nothing ahead, it can be triggered by a bush on a bend. The tech just isn’t there yet. Maybe on a nice straight motorway it might be of use but i find it actually more distracting and dangerous than without, same as this touchscreen everything crap, just bad ergonomics allowing the manufacturers to save a few cents.
That’s interesting. I guess it would be a factor in a court case if you were e.g. in a crash and had disabled some of these features.
I wonder (seriously) could the emergency braking thing make drivers lazy and not observant enough?
alcohol interlock installation facilitation? Who has this installed in their cars?
Its the roads that are currently shit, not the cars. The fancy safety features in my car cannot cope with the state of many roads i drive on. Insufficient lane widths, markings worn off, narrow country roads with an 80kph. But we can’t sort that stuff out because that would mean actually spending money.
“It operates using a front-facing camera which reads speed limit signs. This data can be combined with GPS mapping in the vehicle’s software, enabling the car to know the current speed limits along its route.”
Government will track and monitor you. Good luck with that.
Front facing camera which rrads speed limit signs? They can’t even read plate numbers of idling traffic violators in the city.
I call BS.
No wonder the second hand market is so expensive. People can’t afford all this stuff adding to the price of new cars.
Simple solution.
Have Garda do the job and enforce traffic violation charges.
If Garda is not sufficient, use traffic light cameras to capure plate numbers of cars doing traffic violations and send the traffic ticket via post to be paid on or before the next motor tax renewal.
If cameras are not sufficient, let society submit video evidences of traffic violations of other cars. Fine the violators and reward the citizen with the same amount of fine less tax.
More stepping stones on our way to becoming government owned cattle
So let’s reduce personal responsibility and treat people like idiots by accepting the lowest common denominator as the standard and at the same time as reduce the perceived skills needed to drive.
But not actually, because the technology isn’t up to standard, sounds good to me
People give out about these systems, particularly lane assist – however they are usually shite drivers that do not know how to use their indicators.
Lane assist is a life saving technology. For example if that driver that crashed on the ringaskiddy road a few months ago had lane assist they wouldn’t have drifted across the line.
What about the environment? Creating new cars is so much worse than maintaining the existing fleet
I had a bmw with emergency brake assist and it was unbelievably brilliant
It saved me on 2 occasions when I (guilty i know) got distracted (not phone, it child passenger) and the car ahead stopped suddenly in traffic
It was very impressive
Some complaining about it, but I think its down to shitty cheap tech in those models
The alerts for speeding can be turned off because it’s such an imposition to poor motorists to have to obey the law.
A few select vehicles implement feedback via the accelerator pedal, but most vehicles only employ audio and visual warnings. ISA can be switched off or temporarily overridden by the driver at any time by continuing to apply pressure to the accelerator pedal. Can you turn it off?
It can be switched off but GSR2 requirements mandate that the feature is reenabled- automatically switched back on – every time the car is started.
There will be some bitching and moaning about this
Most of this is good and welcome. But I fear much if it is designed for the roads in Germany etc which we only get around Dublin and some major cities here. For example the idea of a camera to read the speed signs. That is very good. If only we had signs. Because in Ireland the speed signs are mainly at the end of the road you are leaving not the road you just joined you can go 10 or 15 km without passing a sign. On a road that might be 100 or might be 80 there should be signs every couple of KM. Even just painted on the road. They do that on the continent and in the US.
And as for lane assist. I paid extra to have that in my current car and I’ve had to switch it off. That’s great when you are on wide modern roads in France or Germany with clear markings and hedges trimmed back. But in rural Ireland the roads were designed at a time when good design was just wide enough for two single donkey carts to pass each other. And now because they don’t seem to want to worry the birds and wildlife hedges dont get trimmed back in summer unless they are “dangerous” and 2 or 3 feet into the road. So you have no choice but to keep close to the line and the lane assist constantly goes off telling me I’m too close to the line. Not over it but close to it. In Ireland you can have your radar on the passenger side warning you that you are too close to the overgrown hedge and the lane assist vibrating your steering wheel to warn you you are too close to the middle line. It’s getting to the point that’s the way to know you are in the sweet spot in the middle of your lane.
So I hope that the car manufacturers allow for this by scanning all around the car and using GPS so that the car can adapt to the realities of Irish roads. But I fear they will just throw in cheap systems designed for the German autobahn and nothing else.
Looks like used car prices are going to keep increasing.
Jesus, we have bottle return schemes, mandatory driver safety systems (which are unreliable), and no houses to live in.
When the general election comes around, they need to hear us.
Why not install speed limiters like Japan, so no one can break the national limit or alcohol locks like on the buses in France? Easy tech that could be retrofitted to current models and installed in all new vehicles.
Seems there is technology that can save lives and prevent reckless decisions being made. I’ll not hold my breath though.