Was this back when they had radar? Unintended braking is/was a common issue for all manufacturers - my Prius would randomly slam on the brakes whenever I went underneath a bridge.
Because Lexus had to justify the F-Sport package which added zero performance improvements, so they bolted on some shiny metal.
The 2017 RX (and even the latest RX) is about a decade behind in technology compared to Tesla & the German manufacturers. When you invest very little into R&D, you can afford to add shiny metal bits.
Removing side mirrors is in full swing - this is why Teslas have the side repeater cameras that display on the screen whenever the turn signals are used. Audi has had the same thing for years.
The holdup here are government regulations, but the minute those are changed, side mirrors are gone.
First of all, Teslas aren’t drive by wire, other than the accelerator, which is the case for almost every car built in the past 20 years.
Secondly…okay, you have an EV. Where do you charge it? What will your range be when you arrive at a destination? Do you have enough charge to make it back, or should you stop by a charging station? Is it cold; does the battery need preheating?
I don’t know what your issue is with Tesla, but nobody outside of a few “purists” would want to drive an EV without the trip planning features. As for Autopilot…just don’t use it. Nobody is forcing you to use cruise control.
That we should be allowed to drive our own cars without being annoyed by these terrible systems?
I’ve avoided the new Lexus vehicles as their eye tracking is horrible - just glancing down to get a drink will set off alarms.
Now they’ve made my Tesla just as bad - my drive yesterday had an alert every 10 seconds or so, from “pay attention to the road” to “autopilot speed limited”. Very dangerous and distracting.
The system is extremely annoying now, but will leave you alone if it sees your face and knows you’re watching the road.
Covering up the camera just makes it nag more frequently.
It’s frankly unusable now, as it’s constantly beeping at me…almost as bad as Lexus, which will beep if you as much as glance down to get a bottle of water.
Instead of watching the road, I’m now having to look and figure out why my car is beeping at me. Apparently, I need to “pay attention to the road”, which is what I was doing before the beeping.
After 6 years and hundreds of thousands of miles using autopilot without any issues, I am now considering just getting an older luxury car that doesn’t have any of this “safety” software.
If the problem is that they shipped a half-assed implementation of an important safety mechanism, the answer is for them to get better at technology, not saying that safety measures are unnecessary. They can disable the features which don’t work until they have time to fix them.
Ah yes, and seatbelts make cars more dangerous too - distracting the driving and impeding their movement. Motorcycle helmets impair vision. And gun safety switches make rapid use very difficult.
Your car has seatbelts that constantly beep and make you look down to see why? Your helmet constantly nudges you to tell you to watch the road? Your gun safety switch makes a loud noise every time you’re about to fire a gun, reminding you to shoot safely?
Learn to discuss things without hyperbole and straw-men. My Tesla had so many alerts in a short drive that my passenger asked if the car had an issue that required repairs.
I guess in your world, looking away from the road and at a screen to read safety messages promotes safety.
Not a Tesla, this is for sure. As long as there are any cars with physical controls and replaceable lightbulbs on the market, those are the ones I'll be driving. Fortunately, this is still very much the case, especially if a car for you is a means of transportation, not the expression of your ego.
Doesn’t really seem like you even know what we’re discussing.
You don’t need to do any coding when replacing bulbs (assuming the car has bulbs) - we’re talking about the entire headlight, which has modules that require coding. This has been true as far back as 1999, when my BMW needed its HID module flashed.
As for bulbs themselves, even a base corolla now has LED headlights that you won’t be replacing yourself.
I suppose one could consider a Toyota Corolla to be an “expression of your ego”, but I’m not sure who would.
This is usually because the modules are generic and don’t know how to behave, for example, a light fixture needs to know if it’s US or Germany and work accordingly. You could’ve done it yourself with the proper software and knowledge is my point and most things don’t require this.
I tried to do it myself, but the module was running newer software than the vehicle, and required the other vehicle modules to be flashed to the same software version.
