However, rather than tried to crash, I think of it as an awareness aid. Blindly following it a bad idea.
I hate blind spot assist. It just makes me concerned that I'm missing something. I adjust my mirrors in accordance with SAE guidelines from 1995 that eliminates blind spots.
https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a15131074/how-to-adjus...
Still won't trust it though
The ACC was great, and very useful in both high-speed traffic and stop-and-go traffic.
But the lane-center tech was useless, regardless of the road conditions. Even with full sunlight and freshly-painted lines, it didn't work reliably.
When I was test driving a RAV4, the dealer told me not to use the lane-centering when in the slow lane, allegedly because people are coming and going a lot. But it was clear that the real problem was that it would keep you centered even as the line on the right veered off for an exit, which would drive you right into an overpass.
So sad that we live in an era of tech where basically everything is expected to severely degrade after 2 years and be essentially unusable after 5.
But the updates do other things too, like help it understand new kinds of signs or to improve handling of weird situations.
I'd be much more likely to buy a car that has pretty good driver assist tech if it were regularly updated. I don't want to have a car for 10 years if half the driver assist tech is useless when the car is brand new, and it will never be updated.
The first one by mobileye is actually pretty decent at automating the boring stuff. "traffic aware cruise control + autosteer". It was actually better than the next one for a little while until features caught up.
Some folks with the pre-autopilot tesla cars were able to retrofit a mobileye device on the dash somehow. I don't know if it still works to do that.
However, the lane keeping assist does not seem like a good idea to me. It sort of works, but I never know if it will lose track of the lane suddenly. When there is an exit or something that breaks the lines, I think of the Tesla crash I read about. When there is a curve in the road, it seems like there is a threshold beyond which it doesn't try to follow. So it amounts to an unpredictable resistance of the power steering, and doesn't reduce the driver's workload at all, in my opinion. Maybe it's supposed to be used on straight highways, but if it worked without attention for a while, that seems even more hazardous.
I wonder if that could be a direction to go in - future cars could let the driver steer, but mostly figure out going and stopping on their own.