Ronzuki
South Central PA
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- 2018 CX5 Touring
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- w/ Pref Pkg
The "Public" drives the innovations and it we don't agree with "Public, failure is certainly to happen then. So Mazda should put this Lane centering (need to be in the pool of level 2 autonomous driving at this time) feature in their cars and "Drivers" can choose to turn it off and others can utilize it when needed. They need to provide the choices. I sometimes feel a bit outdated in my otherwise great car.
The public wants to jump off a bridge and we should all follow then? why should anyone have to pay for something and then deactivate it. How about those that want it only pay for it?
My problem with the uninformed and unbelievably technically ignorant public's 'want/perceived need' driving marketing (and also the laws made to mandate this garbage's implementation) is that whatever strikes the fancy of said 'public' ultimately gets rammed down my throat to accept and embrace, and, more importantly pay for all around, want it or not. I could truly care less if this autonomous BS pipe-dream fails, in fact I truly hope it does fail, miserably. So far, so good. The public doesn't want to drive? Fine, the public can move to a city and take the bus or subway. There is literally not enough money in the world to make an automobile autonomous, nor reliably partially autonomous, on the 'publically' funded road systems (the infinitely variable course) under any kind of weather conditions other than clear, bright and dry. Even that is proving to be (not shockingly) a tall order.
All of this crap is turned off in my CX5. Annoyingly, I must roll through the touch screen to turn off that damn annoying EBS every, single, bloody, time I start the damn car. Probably wear out the console's screen nav knob. Takes forever for the stupid thing to get around to the proper screen after activation. God only knows what it's 'thinking' about (after "I Agree") before flipping to the next screen...maybe because its cold out lately?, or, the car has an antiquated 8088 processor in it?
Meanwhile...in the misty rain and vehicle spray tonight, the autonomous intermittent wipers couldn't decide how to best function. Yeah, the feature sucks in this car alongside of no heated outside mirrors. The automation pretty much settled on all but constant 'on' even though many seconds of delay would have been perfectly OK (regardless of where delay adj was set). If I had the old-fashion, less costly, 3 or 4 fixed delay selections my drive home would have been less aggravating. As it was, I went manual for the entire 50 minute ride, wearing out that stalk control switch more than it needs to be. Excellent business model...charge for automation that doesn't function all that well (because 'the public' wants it, right?), and then sell more parts that get worn out because over-use. More use than it should, or would have, before the useless half-baked low-budget automation. Brilliant.
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