Tiger, Hire a Driver

[Johndicezx9]

When Ben Hogan was in his car accident in 1949 his reaction was to throw himself on his wife on the passenger side to protect her from hitting the dash, which was metal. (No seatbelts back then.)

Good thing, had he stayed behind the steering wheel he would have been impaled by the steering column. Still, he had plenty of injuries to recover from. His wife was unhurt.

 

[Killroy1999]

Lane keep assist?

 

[NorCalAthlete]

Lane keep assist?

Are you asking if it may have caused the accident or prevented it?

I'm not a fan of that feature in the bay area - sometimes it detects the construction grooves / old painted-over lines and tries to follow them instead of the white lanes.

I wonder if there's a section where it didn't detect the curb properly for the median, and the road narrowed so it tried to shift towards the curb to keep uniform distance from the lane line...catches a wheel (or he feels it's pushing too close and overcorrects) and boom.

 

[tzrider]

I'm not a fan of that feature in the bay area - sometimes it detects the construction grooves / old painted-over lines and tries to follow them instead of the white lanes.

I’m not a fan of it anywhere.

 

[DataDan]

I wonder what it made of this:

 

[N4teTheGreat]

My first experience with lane keep assist prompted me to turn it off. I was in a Ford SUV rental of some sort keeping a nice pace on 50 Nevada. As things got twisty I was staying in my lane but using all of it to smooth out the curves. This would sometimes result in lane keep upsetting the chassis with a quick steering input to bring us back to the center of the lane. It was unnerving and I can certainly see that resulting in a rollover and high enough speeds.

 

[tzrider]

Nathan, that’s exactly my experience with it too; it wants to argue with me about the line I’m taking.

 

[Holeshot]

My first experience with lane keep assist prompted me to turn it off. I was in a Ford SUV rental of some sort keeping a nice pace on 50 Nevada. As things got twisty I was staying in my lane but using all of it to smooth out the curves. This would sometimes result in lane keep upsetting the chassis with a quick steering input to bring us back to the center of the lane. It was unnerving and I can certainly see that resulting in a rollover and high enough speeds.

It'll have a corresponding correction input as well. Makes a driver look drunk. It's kinda right tho...the driver's aren't driving, just like drunks.

The newer systems are well better, but still not made for anything beyond a highway. All things being said, I think the direction that Tiger crashed due to lane keep assist is a red herring.

 

[Abacinator]

I haven't driven anything with LKA, but I have driven lots with Lane Departure warning. That's annoying enough for me to want to turn it off.

 

[tzrider]

All things being said, I think the direction that Tiger crashed due to lane keep assist is a red herring.

I do too. It's more like he's better at driving a golf ball than a car.

 

[Blankpage]

My current car has LKA and I’ve driven a few rentals with it. It’s by no means meant to steer the car instead of the driver, as the name says it just an assist.
I use it most of the time and it simply takes about 10-20% of the steering effort if conditions are ideal. Most of the time conditions are not ideal but I turn it on anyhow when I’m feeling lazy and trying to chill.

Anyone expecting it to do the driving will be massively disappointed. Anyone who crashes because of it is an idiot driver.