"Tapas" (tapas)
11/07/2019 at 14:12 • Filed to: None
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"Tapas" (tapas)
11/07/2019 at 14:12 • Filed to: None | 0
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Get this y’all - this thing has cloth seats that aren’t heated; but it has kick ass Lane Keep Assist!!!!!!!!!
You gotta turn it on after starting the car. It isnt on by default, which is great. When I first turned it on, it felt a bit wierd.
The car beat me to making a minor steering wheel adjustment to keep the car on the road. But it’s not just minor steering adjustments - this bitch with straight up ssteer you through gentle curves like it’s no biggie!
Icant believe that 10 years from now, we’ll be able to buy cars with advanced LKA for $5k!
It took me literally no time to drive like a dazed teenager after my first break up - gazing into the sky, dreading my existence and forgetting that I am piloting a many thousand pound metal box through the interstate at 75 miles an hour lol
And on the not so gentle turns, the system will streer through 10% of the bend and then nope out on you, till your car veers into the lines, at which point it will beep at you.
The green steering light goes out when it feels the grade of the curve is too much. Usually that happens right before the turn comes up, but it has quit on me mid turn.
Code brown was closely averted.
Al in all, it’s awesome to have the assist. It takes away from the minutia of driving. But you can’t rely on it
The sweet spot is to let the car steer itself with your hands on the wheel. And start driving when you see a curve or sense a lack of initiative from the car to turn. Which sounds incredibly unsafe! But that’s what these systems encourage.
They let you lose your alertness and driving intuition. But when the system doesn’t work, you gotta either know what to do or you’re screwed. It’s sad to think but most of the people who are in their teens today will never know how to back a car into a spot without a camera.
Update: Steering feel is surprisingly good. The stereo slaps. Throttle is wierd like all new cars. Doesn't kick in linearly. Big wait before power kicks in. Heater doesn't get extremely hot on hottest setting.
CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
> Tapas
11/07/2019 at 14:41 |
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Forte #content.
I assume being an automatic and a new gen it has AC. Fancy pants Forte?
slipperysallylikespenguins
> Tapas
11/07/2019 at 14:49 |
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How many of these systems are still going to be working in 10-15 years?
I drove a Rav4 with the lane assist and radar cruise control and was not a fan. I didn’t test it out as much as you but the cruise control left me frustrated and the lane assist left me uneasy.
Very few people back into a spot anymore even though it’s usually the safest option.
SiennaMan
> slipperysallylikespenguins
11/07/2019 at 14:55 |
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It’s an interesting question.. my van is coming up on 14 to and the cruise control still works fine, though admittedly that’s a much
impler system..
TheTurbochargedSquirrel
> Tapas
11/07/2019 at 15:02 |
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My Corolla advertises that it can steer itself back into the lane if you drift too far but it actually seems to play with the steering input all the time when the lane departure system is on. The feel of the power steering constantly making little adjustments weirds me out so I keep it off. I’m not brave enough to see if it is actually making enough of an adjustment to follow a lane.
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slipperysallylikespenguins
> SiennaMan
11/07/2019 at 15:04 |
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I think with how most economy cars are treated, those sensors will get banged up and misaligned before too long. It won’t be a cheap fix for someone driving a ten year old Forte either.
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SiennaMan
> slipperysallylikespenguins
11/07/2019 at 15:07 |
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Very good point, which is precisely why you want one where it is off by default. Bad sensors and a computer program that relies on them is a dangerous combination..
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slipperysallylikespenguins
> SiennaMan
11/07/2019 at 15:11 |
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Sort of like the 737 MAX but for the road.
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Tapas
> TheTurbochargedSquirrel
11/07/2019 at 15:25 |
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Get a rental. All fear or losing material belongings like your car or the car in the next Lane are gone when you get the extended coverage.
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Tapas
> CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
11/07/2019 at 15:25 |
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Not only AC, it connects to my phone and looks at all my contacts like my mom.
CB
> Tapas
11/07/2019 at 15:30 |
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On a scale of one to Pacifica, how is it?
Snuze: Needs another Swede
> slipperysallylikespenguins
11/07/2019 at 15:32 |
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I had a rental RAV4 last summer with those features and I went all in like Tapas and just let that thing drive me up I-95 in Florida!
I mean, it’s really nerve wracking just letting go of the wheel and seeing what happens, but it did an okay job. Radar cruise control was actually pretty good.
In reality, I tested this theory out on a very open sections of highway with no cars in my immediate vicinity. I’m dumb, but not dumb enough to play games with other peoples lives. It wasn’t awful but I’m not ready to trust the autonomous car revolution just yet (or probably ever).
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slipperysallylikespenguins
> Snuze: Needs another Swede
11/07/2019 at 15:38 |
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I tested the cruise control out around a lot of other cars. If anyone pulled in front of me the brakes instantly kicked on, where if I was driving I could of just coasted until our speeds matched. I used it in stop and go traffic too, almost rear ended a few people and then it was really slow to take off again. I was the type of driver I hate to be behind.
The lane control I tried when nobody else was around and it didn’t seem to work well, but that might be because of the radius of the turns. I would expect it to work on most stretches of interstate though.
This is what we'll show whenever you publish anything on Kinja:
> Tapas
11/07/2019 at 15:38 |
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How does it rally?
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Tapas
> CB
11/07/2019 at 16:50 |
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Wait Pacifica can’t be 10. This was better.
Stee ring feel was surprisingly good. No dead centre.
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Tapas
> This is what we'll show whenever you publish anything on Kinja:
11/07/2019 at 16:51 |
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I didn’t get a chance to do it.
But I suspect you can't LKA your way through one.
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Tapas
> slipperysallylikespenguins
11/07/2019 at 16:52 |
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Most of them, I think.
Unless all roads get painted rainbow colors as per the nefarious gay agenda.
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> slipperysallylikespenguins
11/07/2019 at 18:18 |
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I kinda doubt anyone in the market for a 10+ year old economy car actually cares if any of the systems work...
pip bip - choose Corrour
> Tapas
11/08/2019 at 07:01 |
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how awful is it?