Following
@woodbar's post #151 in EV chat, I read this Autocar test of a Honda HR-V today:
'There is one thing that makes the mask slip, though, and it concerns a subject we have written about time and time again: the advanced driver assistance systems, or ADAS.
Honda is, of course, required by European law (specifically the General Safety Regulations 2) to fit various ADAS in its latest cars, but it has implemented them poorly. They feel like afterthoughts. This is true of many manufacturers' ADAS efforts, it must be said, but that isn't much of an excuse.
I've probably had more journeys during which the HR-V's adaptive cruise control system has freaked out like a timid horse at a parked car, a shadow or seemingly nothing at all than I have where it has worked successfully - all while the speed-limit reader picks up an entirely incorrect limit and assaults me with noisy bongs for daring to go above what it sees as a 40mph limit on a national-limit motorway.
This tech is a pain to turn off too, requiring navigation through sub-menus while the car is in park. At least I'm now so used to its protests that my ears have learned to tune them out.'
Also:
'I find the adaptive cruise control irritating too – though this is something that annoys me in almost everything I drive. When approaching slower-moving traffic, you have to move out what feels like far too early to avoid the car automatically applying the brakes. I've also had a few experiences where the radar appears to have become confused by the clouds of spray that lorries throw up in inclement weather, trying to stop me hitting what the system seems to misidentify as a solid object. Not good,'
Would put me off buying a car with all these gizmos.
