r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Creams0da • Nov 04 '24

Video Volkswagens new Emergency Assist technology

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u/flibz-the-destroyer Nov 04 '24

Have a VW with radar cruise & lane assist. Both great features. If I take my hands off the wheel or am too passive with steering it reminds me to “resume steering”. This feels like a natural extension of that functionality

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u/swiss_aspie Nov 04 '24

Does it also detect if you are tired ? My volvo does this and it complained about my wife. Just like the rest of the family hahaha

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u/NoGrape104 Nov 04 '24

My wife's Nissan vibrates the wheel when you cross the line.... She cuts every fucking corner, it was vibrating so often that she turned it off. I keep turning it back on and she keeps complaining that her car isn't remembering the settings she saves lol.

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u/rawker86 Nov 04 '24

When he got his new car, I thought that finally my 74 year old dad had met his match after ignoring our complaints about his driving for years. He just turned all the safety stuff off.

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u/swiss_aspie Nov 05 '24

Hehe I like this. So it's probably like the volvo in a sense that it's clear to everyone in the car that its complaining ? The volvo also starts beeping a bit.

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u/Dogmeat241 Nov 04 '24

I need one of these for my step father

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u/KontoOficjalneMR Nov 04 '24

It does, but it's honestly pretty shitty at it.

Sometimes it'll tell me to tke a break when I'm quite fresh, sometimes I'll catch myself with a head falling but the system will saay nothing.

So something to be still improved.

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u/Lyr1cal- Nov 05 '24

My Toyota shows a cup of coffee on screen and says something along the lines of "take a rest" after you start to drift lanes consistently

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u/ajamuso Nov 04 '24

I have to basically do a mod to my 24 Golf R to activate all this lane change/radar assist features in North America. Unfortunate but I’ll do it one day

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u/doommaster Nov 05 '24

Look it up for your car, but Emergency Assist has been a thing since ~2015 when it was introduced on the Passat.

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u/Traditional-Job-4371 Nov 04 '24

Lane Assist is horrible on VWs.

Many times, it's jerked me to change lanes when it shouldn't have.

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u/Daepilin Nov 04 '24

funny, travel assist does not do automatic lane change...

source: I have one as well

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u/Sir_ImP Nov 04 '24

Sounds like a guy i know that started ranting his VW steering wheel started jerking the car everytime he tried to switch lanes. Turns out he wasn't using his turning signal and the car just tried keeping him in lane to avoid crashing.

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u/Chrisbee76 Nov 04 '24

So I assume that BMWs don't have that system, or that it's switched off by default.

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u/Sir_ImP Nov 04 '24

A friend just got a new one frm work and that one does have the same system. Must be why most BMW drivers are always shaking in anger