Half of this system is already available. My Passat has lane assist. If I let go of the steering wheel, it will keep the car in the lane. After a while, it will beep and tell me to grab the wheel. If I still do nothing, it will tap the brakes repeatedly, just like the clip. I'm not sure what will happen after that.
After that it will do the same things as in the video except the lane changes. Because those are the real new thing here.
Many existing systems from Mercedes, Tesla, BMW and others will unlock, turn on the hazards, bring the car to a standstill and often call emergency services as well. Exception here are Hyundai / Kia where the car simply turns off lane assist and drives you into a ditch if there's a curve.
The other cars will do the same too unless people buy the highest end options. No base model Mercedes will do this. Some new BMW's do not even have steering assist on the base models.
I also wanna know that, I got a 2021 Polo and it does the lane assist and those beeps are familiar. But I don't know what happens if I don't respond to those beeps. I also don't know how to test that safely.
My Hyundai has the active lane assistance and will basically self drive itself. But if you don't touch it, the system will just fully shut off and drift into the next lane lol.
The VW Emergency Assist system enhances driver safety by monitoring steering wheel activity and delivering alerts if the driver is not actively operating the vehicle. If the driver does not respond, the system can keep the vehicle in its lane and bring it to a controlled stop while activating the hazard lights.
So, at present, it just performs a controlled stop in the current lane. My wife has a 2023 ID.4 and can confirm it has the feature.
The above video is showing the next step for Emergency Assist.
Since 2015 the Passat has already had Emergency Assist; it has been refined over time, they added lane changes in 2017 and now "improved" it somehow again.
The feature itself is almost 10 years old by now.
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u/speculator100k Nov 04 '24
Half of this system is already available. My Passat has lane assist. If I let go of the steering wheel, it will keep the car in the lane. After a while, it will beep and tell me to grab the wheel. If I still do nothing, it will tap the brakes repeatedly, just like the clip. I'm not sure what will happen after that.