Cruise control denied

[green1]

I think you misunderstood what I'm saying. This may increase seatbelt use, but it does less to deter people from doing something even more stupid like climbing out of the seat entirely. tying it to the seat occupancy sensor would make that much more difficult.

Do we still need to train people to wear their seatbelts? as evidenced by this thread, apparently yes. But as driver assistance features become more common, we're also going to have to train people to stay in their seats, and this doesn't do that. (This is why some other manufacturers require you to keep your hands on the wheel, something that Tesla thankfully does not appear to be doing)

 

[ljbad4life]

Adding to that Infiniti video, watch this... "gentleman" squeeze out of his car window and watch his BMW i3 park itself from the outside....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGoeIjSuJzo

This is why we can't have nice things!

 

[Supercharged]

Overall pretty annoying, if you want to take off your coat or something you then have to use the pedal instead of letting the car offload some of the work making it less safe imo.

The solution then, provided the car senses your weight in the drivers seat, is to switch over to the passenger seat while in cruise control. LOL!

 

[woof]

Adding to that Infiniti video, watch this... "gentleman" squeeze out of his car window and watch his BMW i3 park itself from the outside....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGoeIjSuJzo

This is why we can't have nice things!

The i3 requires the constant pressing of a physical button during self parking. Somehow the driver overrode that to make this video.

 

[bisco]

I hate this feature so much. if I take my seat belt off while driving, it's for a reason that would reduce the safety of my driving. I don't then want the car reducing the safety of my driving further by disabling cruise control (or autopilot, but that's another story). I remember the first time I noticed this, I was reaching for something on the passenger floorboard with autopilot on, but the seat belt was holding me an inch or two too far away so I unclipped it for 1-2 seconds when all hell broke loose on the highway. car is screaming at me and flashing red warnings like i'm about to crash or something the cars slowing down inappropriately. the whole situation immediately became significantly less safe ti the point of being dangerous when I was only intending to do something that would momentarily reduce safety. obviously this hasn't stopped me from operating within parameters that some people *might* consider unsafe but that I consider well above my base level of "safety". it has just made these situations more if a hassle then they need to be because I have to steer and manipulate the pedals while doing things (just like in all my previous vehicles EXCEPT they would at least let me keep the dang cruise control on without a seat belt). I kinda understand autosteer (maybe, to like percent people from doing all that nonsense where they leave the seat etc), but I honestly believe disabling the system when just cruise control is enabled when the seat belt is unlatched makes things less safe than if it remained on. I don't welcome attacks on my behavior, but I do welcome alternate viewpoints on specifically whether this increases safety, decreases safety, or leaves the safety level unchanged that cruise control disables when you unbuckle (assuming unbuckling is what a person is doing in this hypothetical scenario). thanks for reading. I love you all.