My link is about Lane Departure Warning. That's what everyone complains about.
What warnings are you referring to?
Are EU and UK governments pricing the youngsters out of the freedom and fun of car ownership?
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My link is about Lane Departure Warning. That's what everyone complains about.
What warnings are you referring to?
Exactly. These systems are proper glitchy and cannot read less than perfect road markings or signs properly. They don't work well in bad weather either (which in the UK is most of the year). You get a lot of false positives and they miss things, which makes them un-trustworthy. The same applies to the AI controlled cars.
They are an assist that are great on most conditions and the fact you can turn it off on a steering wheel button hardly makes it instrusive. What have you driven with it ?
Not long ago I had a Toyota just decide to randomly "emergency brake" in the middle of the road while overtaking parked cars. This is the kind of thing they do, I'm far from the only one who has experienced it. So OFC it got switched off immediately.
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Must admit, I had one recently decide a traffic island was a car and jam the brakes on for me. That was not cool.
I've also had the same issue passing parked cars in a Volvo V60. I was slowly rolling up to the back of them waiting for an oncoming car to pass me before I pulled out and the Volvo decided to slam on when I still had 5-10 metres left. I think it's an issue that will resolve itself as the technology gets better and more common, but at the moment some of them aren't great.
I don't think they will. You always get these issues when asking a computer to read the real world. It's asking digital brain to find it's way around an analogue reality.
I think the main thing which has changed is the people themselves.
The current generation of younger people are on the whole more entitled, influenced by social media and far more materialistic.
Don't get me wrong, when I was 17 I would have loved to have had something flash or prestigious but it was not achievable.
The amount of fresh 17 year old drivers I see in brand spanking new off the forecourt metal these days is immense. Quite clearly it's affordable be it finance, bank of mum and dad or otherwise.
As has been highlighted on this thread there are PLENTY of cheap BRAND NEW cars. But posting a Dacia to your social media feed isn't cool is it?
The current generation of younger people are on the whole more entitled, influenced by social media and far more materialistic.
Don't get me wrong, when I was 17 I would have loved to have had something flash or prestigious but it was not achievable.
The amount of fresh 17 year old drivers I see in brand spanking new off the forecourt metal these days is immense. Quite clearly it's affordable be it finance, bank of mum and dad or otherwise.
As has been highlighted on this thread there are PLENTY of cheap BRAND NEW cars. But posting a Dacia to your social media feed isn't cool is it?
was like that 20 years ago. I interviewed a new graduate who didn’t have any qualms saying he wasn’t prepared to get out of bed for less than £25k. At the time I could have employed a person who had done that job for 10 years for that money