Mine isn't disabled as such, the car now remembers last setting between ignition cycles, so it stays off until I switch it on again.mluisbrown wrote: ↑Tue Jan 16, 2024 6:22 pmNot at all. It's a safety feature that could literally save your life if for whatever reason you lost consciousness whilst driving. If you drive well it doesn't interfere.monkeyhanger wrote: ↑Tue Jan 16, 2024 3:51 pm Doesn't that just demonstrate how useless the system is and that it's only there to mitigate poor driving habits?
Like seatbelts, airbags and ABS brakes before it, it will reduce road accidents and fatalities, and I'm pretty sure it will become a mandatory feature on new cars in the future. I'm pretty sure that the reason you can't have it disabled by default is existing regulation.
You're exaggerating. It's very easy to resist and/or override the very occasional misplaced "tug" of the wheel.When LA tries to tug you towards lane narrowing cones that it seemingly doesn't see, I'm better off without it.
One more thing worth bearing in mind: if you were to have an accident that lane assist could have helped you avoid, and the insurance company discovers that you've changed OBD11 settings to disable it by default, they could potentially void your insurance.
The insurance company would find it very difficult to try and refuse a claim because you switched a system off that the car lets you switch off (albeit in an inconvenient method) by default.
The only situation I could see it potentially saving my bacon is if I fell asleep at the wheel. They could solve the same "issue" by having a capacitative steering wheel that keeps reminding you to get a grip on the wheel if you have no fingers on it - that would be far more sensible, as there's really no excuse not to have at least 1 hand on the wheel at all times. Either that, or like I said before, have lane assist to recognise the true gap within a partially obstructed lane. It's a poorly executed system IMO.