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Originally Posted by gramicci101

So, say you're in the middle of a line of cars on a track. You've just apexed a hard left hander in preparation to enter the long back straight. The car is getting a bit slippy on the rear end as it pushes wider towards track-out. You're exiting the corner a hair faster than the car in front of you, when suddenly that car enters the sensor zone for your collision avoidance system.

Your car chops throttle and aggressively applies the brakes, in the middle of a sharp turn where you're on the limits of traction and using the throttle to balance the car. Your rear end locks up and whips outward faster than you can countersteer. The car behind you watches helplessly as you spin a tight 180 immediately in front of him. He lets off the throttle and tries to tuck inside of you, but to no avail. As he impacts your front corner and you careen towards the tirewall, a novice three cars back does not react in time, driving into the car in front of him. The wreckage multiplies with NASCAR reminescient proportions as black flags begin to wave and crash response vehicles are notified.

This is why we shouldn't have nice things. Like proactive crash avoidance systems.

but hey, it's great for those guys and gals who can't be bothered to watch the road while eating/texting/playing with the raido/youtubing/etc.. or at least it will be good for them untill it coaxes them into an attitude of indeference due to "well the car will take care of it", thus causing even more distracted driving. And this is where our good overlap crash test results come back in to the topic.