Which driver-assist features do you find useful?

Which driver-assist features do you find useful?

  • Adaptive cruise control

    Votes: 54 60.7%

  • Autonomous emergency braking

    Votes: 22 24.7%

  • Blind-spot monitoring

    Votes: 45 50.6%

  • 360-degree surround-view camera

    Votes: 34 38.2%

  • Rear cross-traffic alert

    Votes: 29 32.6%

  • Traffic jam assist

    Votes: 15 16.9%

  • Lane keep assist / centering

    Votes: 18 20.2%

  • Automatic high-beam assist

    Votes: 29 32.6%

  • Automatic park assist

    Votes: 19 21.3%

  • Other

    Votes: 17 19.1%
  • Total voters
    89
Autopilot, makes motorway driving so much less stressful.
The adaptive matrix lights are great too.

Oh not a driving safety feature but it contributes - scheduled defrosting/de-icing to ensure all the windows and mirrors are clear before we even go near the car on a frosty morning.
 
Neuk_ said:
Start/Stop is coded out of my Touareg, as it was on my Golf, hill assist is off as well.
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I believe the old trick of messing with the coolant temp reading in code doesn’t work on newer cars.

My ‘16 Leon has it and I don’t mind it tbh. I do like the hill assist. But the next car needs to have adaptive cruise control. On long journeys it’s great having the car slow down and speed up with traffic in front of you.

The auto braking is a kak idea if you drive like a POS though. A certain owner off a heavily modified Golf 7 R with “ orange” found out the hard way in their SUV and sold it because well if you drive like a **** it tries to stop that
 
RedViking said:
My car has AI voice. It usually sits in the passenger seat. Pretty to look at. Hard to listen to.
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Apparently you chose wrong! The looks fade but the the attitude is forever!
 
360 cameras are brilliant.

Blindspot warning is great for Checkers cnts coming up the nearside gutter.
 
Lupus said:
Let me be the passenger princess please :p.
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Lupus said:
Let me be the passenger princess please :p.
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Sorry, I don't pick up strangers I met on the interweb.

I do however, sometimes order myself a stranger on the interweb and then get into their car, and complain about not being the driver.
 
The only thing my car has that comes close to those items listed is cruise control, which I really like. Most of the other stuff just sound like expensive repair bills should it break.
 
Nerfherder said:
One thing that I'm really struggling with at the moment is the blind spot behind the front pillars.
It seems to be that oncoming cars turning Infront of me are always blocked by these pillars. I feel like in previous cars this was less of a problem, if there was a way to improve this I would.
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You aren't wrong, the A pillar is definitely fatter in most cars, probably due to some or other safety regulation.
 
cr@zydude said:
Did you buy another Tata Indica?

On topic, my car only has a park distance sensor that I can think of.
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Yup - third one now - first one was a silver 2005 Indica LSi that I got in Feb 2011 with 59,000 kms & sold at around 133,000 kms in Oct 2015 - that was replaced by a silver 2008 Indica LXi that had 69,000 kms on it - traded it in at the end of December last year with around 145,000 kms on the odometer - the new red one is a 2009 Indica GVS (Same spec as the LSi, but has the unicorn OEM option of black leather seats) - with only 50,000 kms on it - so it should last me until I eventually have to book into Shady Pines... ;)
 
All of the above and more.....I can even speak to my car and put in requests.....most are as good as talking to a 1980's car though :p

Lane assist is just going one step too far. Don't tell me when to use the indicator....it's a bloody BM, ffs, no need for indicators!

In truth, I do like cruise control and self parking is a fun gimmick. What I do need though.....power steering, cruise control, ABS........NOT the bloody ding-dongs and alarms and many other 'rescue' devices that come by default nowadays. That auto braking for a car guard :mad: ......trap die donner!
 
I'd just be happy to afford a car that incorporates all those features?

Doubt anything under R500k?

Cruise control and rear cameras on my current Audi are very useful. Also the parking sensors...

Automatic park assist is a feature I would enjoy. Parking has never been my forte.
 
Reverse camera + PDC has come in very handy. Makes reverse parking a doozy.
 
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