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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.
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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.