An awful drive out today

Big Ears

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We don't get out as a couple very often so I decided today we would, but honestly, the car is truly awful unless you switch the nanny off.

As old and decrepit as the Fiesta was I wish we had just kept it or bought another car, nothing to do with it being an EV etc just no stupid interfering and basically bloody dangerous software.

We were on a B road and a range rover was coming the other way, he did not move over so we could pass each other, so I moved over more than I would like and also more than the car liked too, it almost took the steering wheel out of my hands, how the heck is that a safety feature?
 
Welcome to the wonderful world of LKA....

Which would be fine, but only really works if it can identify clear lines on an arrow straight road, which by the way, was all it needed to do to get a pass with Euro NCAP.

It is bollox just about everywhere else you can think of in the real world.

Do as I, and 100s of others do, and just remember to switch it off at the start of your journey.
 
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The BOSS finds it very annoying whenever I do anything but drive it it seems.

I hope somebody is working on a OBD2 solution that allows individual parts to be turned off via an app on your phone, surely it isn't that difficult when they can make stuff to just drive it away without a key.
 
Sorry to hear, about your experiences with your new motor. I agree with you about all this electronic cobblers! Assist for this, Assist for that. Totally unnecessary imo.
They actually spoil people's enjoyment of there cars, not enhance. I've said it before, I've been driving for bloody years without any of this modern shite. And I've been perfectly safe! ???
 
Oh but time is going on and we're all getting old....It just might save you life one time.
If my faculties deteriorate that far Ann, I'll have lost the keys by then.

I appreciate that some people don't see a problem with the software, but I have driven for a living for so many years I hate the intrusion, I'm not very good at many things but driving is a passion for me and (touch head) not had a collision of any kind bar the odd parking knock nothing on the road every on a bike, in a car, van or truck despite doing well over 2k miles per week regularly as a courier.
 
Learn to live with it, even if that means turning things off each drive ... any new car you buy these days will have such nanny features. Some implement them better than others, but they are all annoying in one way or another.

Re. Mrs. Ears ... grow a pair. ;)

(Joking) :)
 
Perhaps it would be useful to tell Big ears how to easily deactivate this annoying function with a flick of the wrist before he driving off ?
 
To obtain these famous 5 stars, the legislator has stipulated that they cannot be permanently deactivated.

It's sad, it's committing, but that's the way it is, and it seems to prevent these cars from biting the roadside and going waltzing off into the countryside, sometimes rolling over.
 
My 1st gen long range MG 5 I switched it off 1st day I got it and not switched it back on
I turn it off in my truck as well as that only makes noise at you so no use what so ever
 
If your MG3+ is anything like my MG4 then either the option is in the MG Pilot menu, under the Car icon ... and/or ... swipe down from the top of the screen to see a pulldown menu, and an ELK / LDP option may be there. In either case the car must be on and ready to drive (not necessarily in D though), and turning the option off requires a confirmation - it's not just a single press.
 
Just back fro Italy and had a new ICE Seat for hire car. Can confirm that LKA in the Seat was similar to my MG4 as far as steering wheel nudge is concerned (MG4 on R59). It is important to ensure that you are on ACC and not TJA as LKA appears to be far more invasive on TJA.
 
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