The cruise control on our Subaru seems to behave like you’d expect here. If someone cuts in front of you going roughly the same speed, it backs off a bit to open up some space, but doesn’t slam on the brakes because someone is close.

On the Toyota Prius (2016-) you can have the lane departure warning on, while turning off the steering assist.

The steering assist was one of the first things I turned off on it, otherwise it might activate literally every time I drive home. There's also construction all over the place, so... yeah.

I pity someone stepping into one of these cars for the first time with this feature enabled.

Lane(Lane assist does fell like it's trying to kill you! There are times where I don't want to be in the middle of the lane, like when passing a truck on a windy day

What do you mean? Lane assist software is so good&safe, that Boeing put it in one of it's planes!

This can be disabled in Ford’a S-MAX as well. (Unsurprising because these systems all we provided by Bosch and co.). I turned it off when it almost ran into the car next to me at the toll booth because of the lines on the roads before the toll booth that nobody follows.

That's not very encouraging for their "fully self driving" hopes and dreams.

Google's Chaffeur would be the only car I would let self drive in the near future, for two reasons:

1. It would only drive at speeds where a head on would not hurt passengers.

2. In case of any certainty loss it would pull over.

Unfortunately, it got the axe (in favour of partnerships). Fully self driving sports car, without a bazillion miles of proper learning data (where the ai was continuously in charge at speeds similar to the discussed ones) sounds way outside my comfort limits.

>Fully self driving sports car, without a bazillion miles of proper learning data (where the ai was continuously in charge at speeds similar to the discussed ones) sounds way outside my comfort limits.

I feel the same.

If Tesla gets their way, they could be on the roads posing a risk to us more cautious types regardless.

Talk of corruption aside, if Boeing can't get it right with a gazillion dollars and no bad roads or unpredictable traffic, I don't trust Tesla to be able to do it safely.