Subaru Develops EyeSight for Manual Transmission Vehicles

[Arthur-A]

If you're having trouble to keep your lane, you have no business behind the wheel.

[OkieSnuffBox]

Originally Posted by ruturaj001

I am somewhat in middle on this. I like few safety features, mainly blind spot monitor. I don't mind complexity in parts that are easy to swap like headlights. Not a fan of complicated systems in eyesight as your point.

I also like the blind spot monitor. Our '18 Mazda 3 has one as well.

When I was still going in to the office, it's before sunrise, it's raining. Look over my shoulder no one there. I hit the turn signal, it lights up and beeps. Someone was blazing through traffic weaving in and out of cars at roughly 25 mph faster than everyone else. Came out of nowhere.

[Desertnate]

Originally Posted by OkieSnuffBox

When I was still going in to the office, it's before sunrise, it's raining. Look over my shoulder no one there. I hit the turn signal, it lights up and beeps. Someone was blazing through traffic weaving in and out of cars at roughly 25 mph faster than everyone else. Came out of nowhere.

I have a similar scenario almost every time I go to the grocery store. People in that parking lot blow through there faster than any other place I tend to frequent. I've come close to being hit while in the middle of the crosswalk on multiple occasions.

In a region where the average family car is a F250 or Suburban, having the radar on the back of the car peek out around the ginormous vehicles before you have a good sight line is a lifesaver.

The other nannies are lost to me, I don't want them, don't need them, and most don't work all that well due to false positives. However, I do like adaptive cruise control on long distance trips outside an urban area. Like the other systems very few work very well. The one in our Acura MDX is horrible because it is either on the gas or on the brakes. I drove one in a Passat about four years ago that was quite good, because it would actually coast or reduce the throttle based on the closure rate to the vehicle in front of you and not immediately brake, which made passing easier. It also didn't trigger on vehicles in other lanes or the center barrier while passing.

[Jakuzure]

it's nice to have passive safety features like blind spot lights and a backup cam. stuff that compensates for the dogshit visibility out of the side and rear windows but doesn't actually drive the car for you

but active safety feels like its so dangerous in terms of making people complacent with the car thinking for you. or in the case of this car, potentially stalling it upon misreading a hazard

[Spairo]

So hold on goldarn cottonpickin minute. Are you telling me that when I cross the Blue Ridge going to work everyday, some of the knuckleheads in the left lane that are going the same speed as the rig in the right lane might be because of their fancy smancy cruise control?????

Well, I am not sure who is dumber, the one who lingers next to a rig of their own accord or the one who lets their car do it. Either way, hanging out in a truck's blindspot and holding up traffic is just dumb.

Go fast, take chances.

[dragoontwo]

Originally Posted by Spairo

So hold on goldarn cottonpickin minute. Are you telling me that when I cross the Blue Ridge going to work everyday, some of the knuckleheads in the left lane that are going the same speed as the rig in the right lane might be because of their fancy smancy cruise control?????

Well, I am not sure who is dumber, the one who lingers next to a rig of their own accord or the one who lets their car do it. Either way, hanging out in a truck's blindspot and holding up traffic is just dumb.

Go fast, take chances.

No. It's because they aren't paying any attention and unconsciously pacing whatever is beside them.

[NorthernDriver]

I love dynamic cruise control on my Civic Type R. It's nice on long highway trips.

[Mcgiiver]

Originally Posted by OldBiker

I never understood why cars would need any of this? Perhaps if they stopped planting giant "infotainment" tablets on the dash, drivers would actually be looking at the road and driving the damn car. As for myself, my little display is turned off and my eyes are on the road. Just grateful the BRZ has manual controls for everything, no need to hunt on a touch screen.

I am with you on the distraction of the Infotainment screens. I wonder how many deaths and injuries have resulted from their distraction.


I do believe the Eye sight on Manual cars will be a good thing. Even though I do embrace the manual controls, Eyesight can make long drives much less tiring. Eyesight can save you when you have that moment of inattention that everyone will experience at one time of another.

[WNDSRFR]

If you need this crap on your car then you might as well take the bus.

[Desertnate]

Originally Posted by dragoontwo

No. It's because they aren't paying any attention and unconsciously pacing whatever is beside them.

Yep. It's the herd mentality. You see it all the time when people aren't passing large trucks. You get these rolling mucus bols on the highway where everyone just starts pacing each other. They are actually looking at their phones and their brain pics up other cars in their peripheral vision which makes them unconsciously just fall in right next to them.