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My recently-purchased, nearly-new Skoda includes "lane assist", which gives steering guidance above 40mph, designed to stop you inadvertently wandering across lanes on the motorway. It's clever and it works fine under normal motorway conditions, and certainly encourages better use of indicators (there's no feedback if you've indicated you're changing lanes).
Today was the first time I've driven on the motorway after heavy rain. As the clouds parted and the sun dried out the carriageway, the dry parts were noticeably paler than the damp patches. Several times, landscape (hedges, fences etc) meant the "dry" line wasn't parallel with the lanes; the lane assist camera interpreted the colour change as a lane marking, and delivered a steering input that actively drifted me out of my lane into the next. Of course I noticed what was happening and overrode the input (you just exert more pressure in the opposite direction). But it really concerned me that my car would "choose" to effectively make an unannounced lane change simply because of a damp road.
This is in a mass-production vehicle and I guess other makes / models with lane assist would behave similarly. If it had been "self driving" rather than just the gentle "nudge" of lane assist, there'd have been an accident. I worry that it's rather too soon to contemplate fully autonomous vehicles on public roads.
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