Comments by "" (@jasonreed7522) on "The Lifesaving Tech Drivers Hate" video.

@Jetliner ACC definitely feels like its in its infancy as a technology, like if cruise just locked the throttle at whatever percentage of max you had it at instead of giving more or less to maintain a target speed. ACC is currently (as far as i can tell) only using instantaneous position/distance to set the target speed so when you get cut off or someone jumps in that gap because people drive with cat logic (if i fits, i sits) it will notice the distance collapsed and set its new target like 20-30mph lower for this distance and start braking. What it needs to do is at a bare minimum take the derivative of the position data, smooth it slightly because dervitives amplify noise, and then use this relative speed to determine if it really needs to slow down. (It could also just find out exactly the speed the other car is going and make that its target if that speed is lower than yours while trending towards the desired follow distance.) As far as lane sense and blind spot monitoring, go to setting and disable the chime, i only have it on for long road trips where fatigue is a concern. And lane sense is similarly poorly implimented with it just turning the wheel a fixed amount instead of dynamically inreasing it to keep on its side of the line, i leave mine off since it isn't actually able to do its job. (At best the wheel turning is an alert you drifted, amt worst it actively fights you) I think the real leason here that can be applied to self driving cars are that programmers apparently don't drive or many of these issues wouldn't be a thing because its common sense that cruise isn't just lock the throttle at 45% because that only works on perfectly level ground with 0 weather. Overall these technologies are a net positive even in their current form, but that doesn't mean they are perfect yet. (I still wish other drivers would just use normal cruise, let alone the fancier assist features)
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I definitely think the signs that just show your speed back too you and blink if you are way to fast are more effective as they just provide immediate feedback and get you attention that "here is a speed zone, slow down". But like everything it requires maintenance, and while this isn't the scope of the video in my area their are many signs that have been swallowed by trees so its become very easy to miss a speed sign. It also doesn't help that the set limit and the actual "natural speed" aren't in sync when this happens.
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Maybe I'm weird but I greatly prefer the bells and whistles. Adaptive cruise reveals just how terribly everyone drives on the interstate leaving half a car length not the 3 thats recommend to not crash before your brain even sees the crash coming. The proximity sensors are nice for nowing if you are too close to something or if you have reached the usual distance from the wall infront of where you park, and if you are regularly using a garage where the spaces are tiny (i visted MIT once, i had red on both sides of my jeep and could barely get out the door) then you are in an area too dense for cars anyway. And finally, nobody can convince me a backup camera is a negative the same way seatbelts are mandatory life saving devices, its simply an additional rearview perspective in addition to mirrors and windows, and it covers a major blind spot. Tldr; if you keep tripping your safety features and need to keep turning them off, take a moment and consider if its really the safety feature thats the problem or should you go back to driver's Ed or give up your keys entirely?
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Occasionally its the fault of the road design, although the natural speed of the road and the enforced speed are noticably different you just have to pay attention or if the conditions permit just set cruise to the correct speed. But in general yes, the guilty party hates being held accountable.
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They are placed at the sign where the speed changes, and you have to slow down before the sign not after regardless of what the UPPER limit is 2 feet infront of the sign is.
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@EnjoyFirefighting i have never felt that they were telling me to slow down before i needed to. Then again i like to coast down to speed if no one's behind me. Your comment made it sound like the flashing sign was half a mile outside the city limits and not that it was at the transition and you felt like it was flashing early. (Besides its a sign not a cop, ignore it if you think its too agressive. The only thing it can do is tell you how fast you are going and blink if its greater than whatever value they programmed it to blink at.)
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@UserName-ts3sp technically most cars have electronic governors somewhere around 100mph. And i wouldn't worry about GPS adaptive governors for a while yet, android auto tries to show the speed limit to be helpful but its often missing or simply wrong, and my adaptive cruise is only using instantaneous position and not relative velocity so when a masshole cuts me off it thinks it needs to brake despite to 20mph difference between us. (You can't win on the mass pike, you are simultaneously too slow and too fast no matter the speed or lane, and nobody recognizes safe follow distance and instead obeying cat logic of "if i fits, i sits")
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The problem is that Mainstreet existed and became a major tavel path to the nearby towns and then 50years later the car was invented and eventually a state/national highway was built to connect the town up the the network and so the most used travel path is now a class A highway and Mainstreet gets upgraded to the same standards. And then the "outer Mainstreet" becomes a classic "natural stroad" which is kinda inevitable and fortunately the least offensive class of stroad. The purpose built stroads are what end up as a 6lane one way monstrosity, atleast the natural ones are usually just 2lanes + shared left hand turning lane which is relatively safe, and definitely more comfortable than a 4lane stroad.
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