[kurthr]

Exactly, the worst driver is you, when frustrated, distracted, or bored. Driver assistance means that stop&go traffic or long stretches of interstate can be made more tolerable and safe. It means rubber necking as you pass that accident on the other side of a barrier won't cause another accident on your side.

Of course reliance on this breeds complacency and allows longer commutes, but so do automatic transmissions, straight tracking wheel alignment, or cruise control. Maybe we would all drive more safely if there were giant spikes that killed us instantly rather than airbags, but we aren't going back... and hopefully one day (before I need it) we'll have true self driving.

[dkoston]

Yea, it is frustrating that these driver assistance technologies aren’t self driving. It’s also frustrating that they are over hyped.

At the moment, they are really good in certain situations (stop and go traffic, highways that are maintained properly and designed really well, roads without a lot of high speed curves, etc)

They won’t add value to many commutes but they add tremendous value to others.

Like all products, they are definitely not one size fits all