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Really wish we could get stuff like this in the US but like the article said the lane keeping, emergency braking, stability control, etc makes it blow up in costs and Americans are too obsessed with 8ft tall massive pickups and SUVs the size of school busses.
Screw all that "assistance" gear. My car ('17 GTI) auto braked for some leaves the other day while I was travelling 120kph
Luckily there wasn't anyone right behind me
My wife's Audi keeps doing the same. The system also isn't smart enough to account for the rate of weight transition when ramming the brakes, so it immediately hits ABS and feels like it's trying to stop on ice. It's actually, genuinely fucking dangerous and enraging