My favorite part of my honda accord is when I try to avoid an obstacle on the road and the lane keep assist system decides to take control of my steering wheel and jerk me in the obstacle's direction.

Cars should have a universal "I'm the captain" button, that shuts off all automated & assist shit, and leaves it to the human. The amount of times I've rented a car and it's screaming at me every 30 seconds about something is just distracting and dangerous.

this is why I won't buy a newer car. it's so goddamn distracting and dangerous. not to mention pretty much all new cars have LED headlights and I'd rather not be a threat to everybody else on the road

Jesus my father's Avalon does the same thing. You're maneuvering in traffic and then there's a beep and a blinking light from the dashboard.

Same reason car manuals are terribly written

I just rented a brand new Ford Explorer and tried on the lane assist and it's the stupidest thing, I would never waster money to pay extra for that "feature"

From what I can tell it doesn't have an actually sensor in the steering wheel to tell if your hands on on the wheel, so instead it judges that by the fact that there is "resistance" or "feedback" from you turning the wheel or slowing it from turning while adjusting to stay in the lane.

However, this means that when you hit a straight stretch of road, and have no need to adjust the wheel physically, it blares a "KEEP YOUR HANDS ON THE WHEEL" warning at you until you move the wheel a little bit. So on a straight stretch of road you have to unnecessarily weave left and right a bit in order for the car to not get pissed at you.

If you don't and the car thinks you don't have your hands on the wheel it just turns the system off. So fuck you apparently, they'll let you weave off out of the lane on purpose if you're having a medical emergency and can't keep your hands on the wheel and relying on the lane assist to slow down safely.

My car does this, but it's the same "bong" sound as when a warning light comes on -- it's not really distracting, but every time my heart sinks and I think, "what's wrong with the car now?"

What's a "warning road"? It doesn't snow where I live so I don't think we have those here.

I rented a car that would lock you out of the stereo controls while backing up. It would also auto-connect your phone and then start playing music at the last volume setting

the number of times I was backing up attentively only to have music start blaring mid-manoeuvre and startling me, forcing me to either hurry up so I could get the volume button back or stop so I could access it asap...

we eventually got used to it but damn the first few days we kept forgetting to turn it ALL the way down instead of just a reasonable level

such a fucking stupid design choice. fuck you, Chrysler

Here I am getting annoyed that my Android Auto wouldn't automatically start, and instead I have to wait until module loads to click AA button on the screen. (I can hit it while driving) 2017 Peugeot if anyone is interested.

Fuck this shit, really. Who in the fuck needs a reminder that they need to drive safe. Who wants to see instructions on how to pair their phone with an app that is a paid subscription? That should be banned.

Was just going to mention that

It won't be long before turn signals and windshield wipers are behind a sub menu

It's nice for navigation and rear camera view, I guess. But yeah, it's function should mostly be limited to be an output device and not an input device.

Our car has a decently large screen. When reversing, it's invaluable. You can see more than if you turned around and looked, it's that good. I'd never go back to a shitty 2 inch reversing camera.

"And it enables us to remotely brick your vehicle to force you to buy a new one"

Similar to Android Auto having a giant Search bar across the map page. You're not allowed to use it when driving, but it's always there in the way.

I miss my BlackBerry that had a touch screen and a physical keyboard. And it would have been great to have another smartphone platform out there; I wish they hadn't folded under the pressure from iphone and android. There's a pretty good chance I'd have gone for a less flashy Blackberry instead of a pixel to put grapheneOS on it, if Blackberry was still an option (and wasn't just an android platform when it was).