Context: lane departure systems depend on you using your turn signals so it knows no action is needed from it
Mine likes to beep when I’m crossing intersections with no lines. What line did I cross, car?! What line?!
Oh you know exactly what line you crossed! ~Your car, probably
Idk, I had a rental with a lane departure and it almost made me crash. I was on the highway, turned my turn signal on to indicate I wanted to change lanes, waited a second or two, began turning into the other lane to make the change, and the fucking thing activated and forcefully slammed me back into the lane I had been in, despite the fact that my turn signal was on and no other cars were close to me. I almost lost control and immediately disabled it and left it disabled.
Yeah, the auto lane correction is bad. If you have to avoid a biker or person walking or anything else, the car should not fight you
I set mine to warning only, I don’t mind the beeping. It might help if I’m drifting over or something - the difference is, the sound doesn’t take control away from me.
I’m starting to learn there’s an in-between of lane departure systems and more fleshed out automatic “driver assistance” systems lol
I’ve only driven cars that if they had it was just at most a wheel vibrate and beep, which if it’s a false positive it’s a mild annoyance
The stuff that beeps like hell if you touch a line? That’s just annoying as shit for a plethora of reasons. First that comes to mind is: Have you ever noticed how a lot of turns have worn-down lines on the inner edge of the turn, because the more comfortable and natural path cuts the corner a bit (especially prevalent on narrow roads)?
We had a car with one of those when we rented a car in Scotland. The narrow roads are already nerve racking but having something screech at you if you’re within 5 ft of a line is even worse. Just makes a stressful drive more stressful.
The city I live in hasn’t updated its lane designations in ages. There are numerous streets where there’s no visible line at all anymore, and you honestly can’t tell if there’s supposed to be one lane or two in a given a direction. Sometimes old lines are faded but still visible, while new lines were just lazily slapped alongside them. Then there are intersections where the lanes don’t match up with each other once you pass through - that is, you could be driving in the center lane, but if you continue going straight across the intersection, you’ll wind up in the left lane. The road shifts over without warning or guide lines on the street.
My car doesn’t have lane assist or departure warnings or any of those bells and whistles. I can’t imagine how much more difficult navigating here would be if it did.
Exactly: These things are crap because they assume an idealised system where the only time you’ll be crossing a line is while your turn signal is on. Reality is much more messy, and requires that you actually read the road and traffic conditions, rather than blindly trusting the lines, which is what these systems try to annoy you into doing.
I agree with the sentiment but I also don’t like a lot of modern “safety” systems. Many are just a box-ticking exercise for star ratings and arguably do more harm than good. If you’ve ever had lane keeping blindly follow lane markings in roadworks with temporary redirections in place I’m sure you know what I mean!
Doesn’t even need to be roadworks! I live in a rural area and a lot of the smaller streets have no markings at all. But somehow my car detects something and likes to slightly swerve into oncoming traffic. Also really fun that it turns on automatically whenever you start the car.
Fuck that. I get so many false positives when not changing lanes but there are faded lines in construction zones or when signaling and then merging into a turn lane that has a line too solid for the sensors that I turn that crap off. Yes, I did have it beep and jerk the wheel when my signal was on multiple times.
No, using your turn signal correctly doesn’t mean lane departure always works correctly. It is a crutch for people who don’t pay attention while driving and is far from perfect.
Relatively light gouges/scrapes in the road can pack with snow. Voila, new white line. Constantly sets off the lane departure. In the winter. When things are slippery. On mountain roads.
My vehicle JUST beeps. If it tried to “correct” the steering it could very easily get someone killed.
I don’t mind the beeps (false positive… nothing gained but nothing lost), but no fucking way I’m letting a computer take the wheel.
Those systems are shit. Don’t buy new cars, ever.
Idk, seems to work well in the '24 rental I’m in rn
Plus LDWS can be found in cars as early as '16, hardly new
You might be thinking of active lane keeping, which is much newer, usually coupled with the new crop of “Advanced” Driver Assistance systems. Which my rental also has, I give it a so-so on its autopilot. Works ok on the highway
LDWSs are annoying AF if you drive anywhere with frequent road construction/maintenance…It will vibrate and beep loudly for no fucking reason, giving the drivers fucking jump-scares, because it can’t differentiate between the old currently unused white lines and the temporary bright orange ones currently to be used. They’re are half-assed solution in place because of poorly written regulation.
Edit: and “newer” implementions are also “active” so they will jerk the steering wheel as well…fucking insane. Our 2020 VW Up has this bullshit, luckily it’s easily disabled with a button.
Shitty dcivecs?
Laughs in 2000 Mercedes Sprinter
