Considering Ford had a recall concerning detachment of the steering wheel, I am not so sure I would trust this system. Apparently this is a trend in the auto industry. LINK:

https://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/ford-co-pilot360/

Beginning in fall 2018, Ford Co-Pilot360 will begin making its debut in key markets across the world in order to “help customers drive more safely and confidently amid rising congestion and distractions,” the carmaker noted. The system includes automatic emergency braking with pedestrian detection, blind spot-information system, lane-keeping system, rear-backup camera, and auto high-beam lighting. Moreover, Ford will be offering further premium driver-assist technologies, like adaptive cruise control with stop-and-go and lane centering, evasive steering assist, and post-collision braking. These features, however, will be exclusive to North America for the time being.

Next year, the company is slated to debut reverse brake assist so that you don’t hit a mailbox (or something worse) when backing out of your driveway or a parking spot. Ford Co-Pilot360 will roll out across Ford’s new passenger cars, SUVs and trucks up to F-150 in North America, starting on the new 2019 Ford Edge and Edge ST this fall.

“Though our vehicles today are safer than ever, drivers tell us they are still stressed about getting in a potential accident,” Jim Farley, Ford president, Global Markets, said in a statement. “That’s one reason why we’re making these must-have technologies accessible to millions of customers each year.”

Perhaps the most important aspect of Ford Co-Pilot360 is the standard automatic emergency braking — anytime a potential collision is detected, the system will flash a warning and sound an alert, and if your reaction time isn’t quite quick enough, your car will automatically pump the brakes in hopes of avoiding a collision. By 2020, this feature will become standard on 91 percent of Ford cars in North America.

Then, there is the blind spot-information system, or BLIS, which uses radar to determine if a vehicle is entering your blind spot, and alerts you via an indicator light in your side-view mirror. The lane-keeping system is impressive on three fronts — first, if you begin drifting too close to lane markings, Ford Co-Pilot360 will notify you via a steering wheel vibration. Second, the system will actually provide steering torque to steer your vehicle back toward to center of the lane. Finally, a driver alert system will continuously keep tabs on your driving patterns by leveraging a forward-looking camera, and will provide you with visual and audio warnings when you seem to be paying less attention than you ought to be.

This seems to be just the start when it comes to Ford’s efforts regarding driver-assist technologies. The company is investing $500 million over the course of the next five years to continue developing safety technologies. A primary goal will be to simplify the technology so that they are as intuitive to use as possible, Ford notes. “Many people question the idea of autonomous vehicles,” Farley said. “But those who use advanced driver-assist technologies today say they are more open to cars doing all of the driving in the future.”

Many of these features have been on vehicles for some time now.
My wife's escape has the adaptive cruise control with accident warning (it will alert you and preload the brakes but will not stop autonomously) and the BLIS.
I could've added the lane departure warning and autonomous braking, but we didn't like the idea of a vehicle that can potentially brake without warning (it's happens a few times in the past with various makers).

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Originally posted by Gibb:
Many of these features have been on vehicles for some time now.
My wife's escape has the adaptive cruise control with accident warning (it will alert you and preload the brakes but will not stop autonomously) and the BLIS.
I could've added the lane departure warning and autonomous braking, but we didn't like the idea of a vehicle that can potentially brake without warning (it's happens a few times in the past with various makers).

Im currently in a Freightliner that’s equipped with the new brakeing system. It’s scary as hell when she takes it upon herself to throw on the binders when it sees someone exiting on a curve. Icy roads only add to the adventure.

My new Accord has these features, which are available on all trim models of the Accord. For the most part I really like them, but it looks like they can be fooled on curves and in other situations. I'm getting used to the Lane Keeping Assist System (you can feel the steering wheel turn in your hand to stay in the center of a lane) and adaptive cruise control. If a car suddenly pops in front of you, the car slows down (not abruptly) to stay the same length behind the new car in front as you have set for cruising separation distance.

Uhhh, yeah, no thanks.

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Originally posted by arfmel:
Uhhh, yeah, no thanks.

Same. I follow vehicles very very closely. Honda’s system gets real confused and will auto-brake. Owners of Accords have said they have nearly been rear ended. These systems also freak out in bends/twisty roads. ADAS is in its’ infancy and I want nothing to do with it as a very attentive driver. I think it’s great for mouth breathers though. They can’t put their smartphone/burger/60oz soda down and drive so the autonomous driver assistance systems are excellent for those that suck at the driving.

Last year I bought the last gen of a performance car without ADAS. This bullshit will soon be standard equipment as the insurance industry wants it on every new vehicle sold.

We have most of that on our Mazda CX-9. I can turn the various features on and off, and usually do so when I'm driving.

The adaptive cruise control is pretty slick, as are the automatic high beams. It's also nice to have a visual and audible warning that covers your blind spots. I prefer to control the steering wheel and brakes myself.

I hope these things are just optional. I'm OK with lane drift and blind spot warnings, but I'll be damned if I'll let the car do my driving. And for anybody who says "pretty soon it will all be mandated and that will be the only kind of car you can get," I know how to keep a car going for a long time.

Some of these features are pretty useful but I want no part of a vehicle that brakes and steers itself. I can see this technology being made mandatory in every new vehicle in the near future. New cars are already ridiculously expensive, all we need is them to cost more for things many people don't want.

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Originally posted by a1abdj:
We have most of that on our Mazda CX-9. I can turn the various features on and off, and usually do so when I'm driving.

The adaptive cruise control is pretty slick, as are the automatic high beams. It's also nice to have a visual and audible warning that covers your blind spots. I prefer to control the steering wheel and brakes myself.

Man, I HATE the automatic high beams on my wife's Highlander. The sensitivity for the turning them off is way too high, and it takes forever to turn them back on when a car has passed you. I drive a lot at night coming home from work and use the high beams a lot, the system in her car is just not adequate. The adaptive cruise is ok, but leaves too much room even at the closest setting. In traffic, someone is constantly able to cut between you and the lead car, further causing you to slow down, and then it is very slow to accelerate back to speed when room is given. Very annoying to the driver that pays attention.

On my new Ford, the Bluetooth connection is lost for a split second and causes the music I'm streaming to skip whenever I come to a complete stop. I can't wait to see what glitches happen with these new systems.

As a trucker, I HATE the blindspot warnings.

At least up here in New England, it means "safe to cut off the bigass truck because you won't clip it..." regardless of whether or not the truck can see you well, can see around the other vehicle they're tail-grabbing, or whether the truck can stop.

Also I despise the stability control in my pickup... I am usually already recovered from a slide or am mid-correction when it decides it needs to "help". Hate it.

eagerly waiting for reports of malfunctions... where the auto brakes suddenly for no reason/won't move from a fuel stop. side warning lights come on for no reason,, cant accelerate due to sensor seeing vehicle in front. the list goes on.

A friend bought a new 2016 end of last year, we had some well below zero weather and his car wouldn't even engage the starter when it was cold(worked fine when garaged) dealership had to get a GM tech from Detroit to come and fix it.

It is, if not always absolutely necessary, desirable for me to leave an automatic transmission in neutral for servicing, but late model Chryslers won't let you do it.

Have all of this stuff on my wife's 2016 Subaru outback. It actually all works quite well, but can be very confusing understand. Also, most actions, especially adaptive cruise control, result in annoying "beeps." As a result, I have turned everything off except the blind spot warning, which was very easy to get used to, and a nice feature. But the constant beeping on the cruise control caused it to get turned off. You can use the cruise to a normal mode, but it got switched back to adaptive accidentally and I can't remember how to switch it back, so she just drives with NO cc and is fine with that.

I have a ram pickup which just has the auto headlights, and they are great to use. Work flawlessly. But I usually don't drive outside the city so not much chance to use them.

If anyone knows how to switch the cruise on the outback back to normal mode, please let me know. Manual doesn't say how.

Having read the responses I am sure there will be a need for trained mechanics to turn off these devices.

If I don't have the option to turn the systems on or off, then I don't want anything to do with them. I'm a good and safe driver without that stuff as evidenced by the fact that I haven't been in a wreck in over 30 years and was just a fender bender with the other driver at fault.

Jim