TLX Type S First Impressions
Charlie Brown.
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Lane detection is just... not good. Conceptually it's great. Mandy's X3 has it, and it gently shakes the steering wheel if you're drifting *near* the line; I drive offset in lanes a lot because our roads have so much damage from chains/studded tires that the off-center pavement is MUCH smoother. But in her car the wheel just shakes all the damn time, but it's really hard to tell whether you're driving over a rumble strip or if it's the lane detection going off. I've had a couple rental cars with it, the last one (honestly don't even remember the car... maybe a Toyota SUV?) would do a similar wheel shimmy thing, but the shimmy was like 15 degrees (electric steering so obviously didn't move the car), so if you were paying attention and countered to what felt like a sudden steering change you'd jerk the car the other direction, and if you weren't paying attention (say because you had 3 hours of airplane sleep on a massively delayed flight, it was 530 am and you were driving thru Milwaukee on a road you've driven on 1000 times) then it was genuinely traumatizing (as in "HOLY SHIT WHAT IS HAPPENING TO MY POS RENTAL CAR oh no big deal just a "safety" feature back to sleep now"). Yeah, not a fan.
Adaptive cruise control is also fine, but every car where I've used it, it's way too aggressive on speed changes. The Chevy variant of it (Camaro, maybe?) was unusable, it would slam on the brakes if the car in front of you went from 65 to 62 and you were going 66. Yes, the car in front of me is slowing down, it's a 6 lane freeway I'm swit nope not switching lanes because now I'm going 52 WTFFFFFFFFFF oh shit the guy behind me almost ran into me.
Typing this out makes me realize I will probably be a luddite when it comes to self driving cars... that or I will need to sedated.
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