Adaptive Cruise Control/ Forward Collision yes-no

[Murgatroid]

Who's the Darwin Award candidate? The guy who avoids this junk, or the guy who gets killed because he expected a circuit board to save his life while he wasn't paying attention to the road?

First time a vehicle with advanced safety features hits me, I will hire lawyers and sue for every single thing I can get.

To summarize: Get rid of the safety junk. Either DRIVE your truck, or CALL a taxi.

The problem with a law suite is that the technology still requires someone to be in control, it is just an extra help to safety like windshield wipers and headlights. Now when they get to the point where a human is not in control and an accident happens, which do to the law of averages there has to be some accidents, the accidents will still be lower and therefore the roads safer with the technology.

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[Bob502000]

Have seen discussions where some chose not to go with Adaptive Cruise due to amount of window space it takes up.
Some questioned the sensitivity, making it more of a pain to have.

I am trying to decide if I add it today or not.

Did you add it to your Gladiator?

Tried it today on a 200 mile trip. It braked or decelerated a couple times on parked or disabled cars on the freeway. I'm a bus driver and don't follow anyone close by habit, so I switched to regular cruise.

 

[Slojo]

These systems are pretty advanced but at this stage of the collision avoidance technology we are still in "the 70s". What I mean is that the late 60s began the renovation of vehicles reduce the effects of collisions on occupants (i.e. survivability). This decade began the age of collision prevention. Automotive and scientific/engineering journals have discussed in amazing detail that for the next 50 years prevention is the focus of future vehicle safety.

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