Automatic Braking

earlingy said:

Ford's Collision alert only beeps at you, and goes off every time I make the previously mentioned lane change, and it can be ignored.

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Best case, that's going to be annoying. And the more conservative its calibration ends up being, the more annoying it's going to be.

I can't guarantee it's the same with the VW as the '18 Mustang, but in the VW, it will beep before it brakes just like my '16 GT, and if you don't intervene quickly, it will brake HARD. I'm talking 100% brake force, ABS is going off, even if you were going 5mph. Also, it cuts the gas pedal, so you cannot fight it.

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I'd rather not have ABS at all than to ever have to cope with that scenario. Just give me good grippy brake pads, I'll live with the dust and any noise, and I'll continue to pay at least as much attention to closing rates as to the illumination of brake lights (which don't always work and which are intentionally made dimmer by some owners).


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Thanks everyone for their thoughts, I know a couple folks had referenced the 2018 owners manual which I've not had the opportunity to review. Nonetheless, despite the fact that I would love the blind spot warning function, it seems this other function is bundled in, and that's just not for me.