Lane centering is designed to be compliant, not dominant

In my case, it started pulling the car to the middle, while I was deliberately driving on the very right to avoid oncoming, passing traffic. I could override it by turning the steering wheel in the other direction, but there was a fair bit of resistance. It very nearly caused a serious accident. This all happened in a split-second at 80 km/h. Had I been old or less alert people might’ve died because of this dumb fucking idiot system.

Again, if someone so far gone or so heavily impaired they can’t keep a car in the middle of the lane, then the system is worth it. But then maybe that person shouldn’t be driving in the first place?

I can’t think of a case where adaptive cruise control is detrimental.

In a friend of mine’s car during rainfall the system detected a car in front where there in fact was none, and performed emergency braking. Again, a serious accident was only avoided due to the quick reaction of the following driver, or a rear-end collision at 120 km/h would’ve occurred.

These bullshit systems cause accidents.

Correct, no French cars in the USA

My Volvo from fucking 2001 had this with they keyfobs. Unlock with keyfob 1, positions everything for 1, unlock with 2, positions for 2.

No Orwellian crap needed, and a better experience on top, since it adjusts while you’re walking to the car and opening the door, not after sitting down.

like lane centering or adaptive cruise control, would be disabled.

Good. These features make sense if you’re 96 years old and drunk. For everyone else, they make the driving worse.

Keeping to the very right of the road, so that oncoming cars can pass a cyclist with a safe distance for everyone? No, goes the drunk retiree assistant, I’ll pull you to the centre for a nice head-on collision.

Please consider cleaning that screen.

The fact that you’re even asking this tells me that you’re more considerate than most. You’ll be fine!

You might be confusing it with the decimal system

I don’t think they will. There’s a kind of retarded gestapo running amok in the USA. They’d probably arrest Frenchmen for “looking Mexican” and “not speaking American” or something as braindead as that

I don’t believe you. You would rather die than use metric communist units.

“But what is the alternative? The state enacting laws preventing corporations to run amok? But that would be communism!”

• US-Americans, probably

Conservatism

At which point do we just call it what it is, racism?

What I cannot understand is how so many of my fellow Americans actually like it this way.

Is it racism?

Narrator: It was racism.

Bonjour

two hours in traffic

My tiny Yuropoor brain literally cannot comprehend such levels of freedom. It can however be transported by trains. Communist socialist trains.

About 25% of Americans are extremely happy with how things are going

Yeah, like this:

Writing stuff in Rust

Regex describes a parser.

I assume you’re asking this because you’d like to reduce the impact of that kind of behaviour.

If that is your goal, then it would be best attained by going to psychotherapy. NCD/ASPD cannot be healed, but it can be treated and its effects greatly reduced, assuming you’re willing to put in the work.

Let me put it this way: When I am in a restaurant/bar/pub/similar place, I can’t follow the conversations of the people at the other tables. However, with US-Americans, I understand every single word, even if they’re two tables over. Their normal conversational volume is just so much higher. To them, it is completely normal, and they don’t seem to notice. To us, they’re speaking very loudly, as if everyone were hard of hearing, or as if we were on a construction site.

There’s a not-so-small difference between weird and annoying leftovers in specific areas and going all in with it in everyday life and still teaching it to every child.