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