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Mentioned it before, but people make mistakes. I learned to drive in a Dodge cargo van with no safety beyond a driver airbag, but i fully embrace all the modern features. They're quite nice provided you understand how they work and their limitations.
The camera constantly monitors both sides of the road for pedestrians.
The radar can detect slower cars when you're blinded by the sun on the horizon.
The radar can detect the car driving with their headlights off at night.
BLIS warns you about the smaller car hovering in your blind spot (with headlight out naturally).
The radar warns you the car ahead of you is suddenly stopping before you have a chance to realize their brake lights are out.
As a proper driver, you turn your head and look at your blind spot before making a lane change and whoops -- while your head was turned, a deer just ran out in front of you, or a car pulls out of the Big Lots driveway. Your attention (and eyes) were momentarily on the area behind your car, not watching the road ahead of you.
Maybe you hear sirens and are glancing in the mirrors, trying to see where the ambulance is. It only takes a moment for the car ahead of you to see the ambulance and suddenly hit *their* brakes while you are looking at your side mirror.
I recall one time, i was looking at the car ahead of me at a red light. Turns green, i start to pull forward. They stopped suddenly. Even though i was staring directly at their car, it didn't register in my mind they were stopping again until the alert went off.
Nobody would've been hurt, but collision warning prevented new bumpers and an insurance claim
The camera constantly monitors both sides of the road for pedestrians.
The radar can detect slower cars when you're blinded by the sun on the horizon.
The radar can detect the car driving with their headlights off at night.
BLIS warns you about the smaller car hovering in your blind spot (with headlight out naturally).
The radar warns you the car ahead of you is suddenly stopping before you have a chance to realize their brake lights are out.
As a proper driver, you turn your head and look at your blind spot before making a lane change and whoops -- while your head was turned, a deer just ran out in front of you, or a car pulls out of the Big Lots driveway. Your attention (and eyes) were momentarily on the area behind your car, not watching the road ahead of you.
Maybe you hear sirens and are glancing in the mirrors, trying to see where the ambulance is. It only takes a moment for the car ahead of you to see the ambulance and suddenly hit *their* brakes while you are looking at your side mirror.
I recall one time, i was looking at the car ahead of me at a red light. Turns green, i start to pull forward. They stopped suddenly. Even though i was staring directly at their car, it didn't register in my mind they were stopping again until the alert went off.
Nobody would've been hurt, but collision warning prevented new bumpers and an insurance claim
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