I would absolutely love a car that could do that well while I still paid attention while listening to podcasts/audiobooks.
I haven't tried any newish midtier cars, only been in a friends Tesla which is beyond my needs.
These niche applications are 100% what car companies should have focused on from the beginning rather than robotaxis.
The system overall is not perfect but it’s great in stop and go and pretty good in regular traffic.
My single test drive with a Civic was similar but I didn’t test out the ADAS so much (and they wanted too much for it).
This sounds like everything Toyota does.
I haven’t had issues with vanilla LKA on a non-HDA mapped road other than expected problems where lane markings or shoulders are unclear.
Perhaps grandparent poster has a misaligned camera on their vehicle.
I have a 2020 Palisade with lane centering. It works incredibly well. I've driven through Chicago highways with only management for lane changes. I literally will not buy a car without lane centering after having this car.
These are God awful naming schemes, completely misleading for the common consumer and bizantine in naming. Near purposefully misleading
It does seem they starting to standardize the naming.
- https://www.consumerreports.org/car-safety/lane-departure-wa...
The US NHTSA specifies the names here:
- L*A: https://www.nhtsa.gov/equipment/driver-assistance-technologi...
- LDW: https://www.nhtsa.gov/equipment/driver-assistance-technologi...
W = Warning, A = Assist
(Curious what names are used outside the US)
It's not clear how to fix this, because the human can appear completely fine by all observable metrics even when they aren't, and vice versa to a lesser extent. This problem also gets worse the better your autonomous performance is.
That's why virtually every safety expert in the field is fairly critical of these sorts of systems.
What's the 'basic car' that uses gas that you want in electronic form but still a basic car?
Some people don't like Ford cars because they are fixed or repaired daily.
Some people don't like GM for whatever generic meme saying.
Some people don't like Toyota/Honda/et al because they're not American made (to whatever truth there is/isn't to that).
Some people just have preferences. Those preferences do not equate to the meaning you are trying to infer.
Not that every company should follow Tesla's approach, but I think it would be great if other companies don't get too focused on their production systems being eyes-off, hands-off. I'd much prefer more people having access to these systems _sooner_ with monitoring to ensure that they're paying attention.
Tesla Autopilot, Hyundai's lane keep, etc. are such fantastic systems when you commute in high traffic areas and/or you have a long commute - even if you have to monitor the thing.