A Preview of Things to Come “impaired driver” detection and

[sunny225]

www.ericpetersautos.com/2023/12/30/a-preview-of-things-to-come/

A Preview of Things to Come

It will be 2024 soon and that means we’re only one calendar year away from the 2026 model year. That is the decreed-upon year when all new cars sold in this country must have “impaired driver” detection and pre-emption “technology.” Meaning, “technology” that monitors driver performance – the actual wording used in the decree, as opposed to the language used to market the decree as being a measure to prevent “drunks” from driving (and never mind that, per the decree, everyone who drives is to be presumed “drunk” until he proves otherwise, to the car, as he drives it) and takes action when a driver’s performance falls outside allowable parameters.



Elements of this “technology” are already embedded in many 2024 (and 2023) model vehicles and I thought you might like a preview of them – which I can offer, having driven (as a car journalist who gets to test drive them) many 2023 and 2024 vehicles that already monitor your “performance” as a “driver.”



Actually, they don’t do that. They scold – and correct – certain driver behavior/actions. It’s a distinction of some importance, because of the deception. Your “performance” as a driver is not what’s to be monitored and corrected.



It is your obedience.
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[sunny225]

Note this paragraph:

For instance: Almost all cars sold in 2023 and 2024 have a system that can tell whether you have used a turn signal before making a lane change that will proceed to correct your attempt to change lanes if you haven’t signaled first, by electronically trying to steer the car back into the lane you’re trying to leave for the one adjacent. This is marketed as Lane Keep Assistance Technology. The premise being you require “assistance.”

[Ozarks Tom]

Jan 1, 2024 18:06:52 GMT sunny225 said:

Note this paragraph:

For instance: Almost all cars sold in 2023 and 2024 have a system that can tell whether you have used a turn signal before making a lane change that will proceed to correct your attempt to change lanes if you haven’t signaled first, by electronically trying to steer the car back into the lane you’re trying to leave for the one adjacent. This is marketed as Lane Keep Assistance Technology. The premise being you require “assistance.”

The other day Sweet Bride and I were coming home from town.  I turned on my right-turn signal to turn into our gravel road.  I asked her "who did I just signal to?"  There were no other cars in sight, maybe I kept a squirrel or rabbit from running under my tires?  

Also, after living in Texas for 29 years, I can tell you from hard earned experience that turn signals are not only not allowed, but are challenges to other drivers on the freeways, even slightly turning your head to check your side mirror will be noticed and that open space will be closed up.

[joebill]

Try to change lanes to avoid a wreck without signaling? .....sorry, buster, you are now an accordion!......Joe

[paisley2]

Great ...so when the moose jumps in to a road more folks might die  link

Moose and car/truck meeting

[cccindy]

Wow, we were a fraction of a second from becoming one of those wrecks on a rainy night in Maine years ago. Southbound on I95 north of Millinocket and a moose stepped out of the forest median inches from our path. We found a motel at the next exit.

[paisley2]

cccindy, Thank the Lord ....and smart to wait... It is scary. This is not a well thought thru.