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.
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.