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"Meant to"
That really depends on your definition of meant to save your life, vs meant to mitigate any possible liability for the manufacturer.
Now if you turn anything off (like that stupid autobrake that brakes for cars in the left hand turn lane beside me), they'll use that to say "it's not our fault, the driver turned it off!"
Stupid crap.
Don't try and spin this as a convenient liability-limiter for manufacturers.
Unless it is an actual failure of a safety critical system, with no warning, that then directly leads to harm, manufacturers are in no way responsible for how you operate the chunk of metal and technology that you bought from them.
All this stuff absolutely helps to reduce the overall risk of injury when operating a vehicle. Is it also a pain in the ass sometimes? Sure it is. Can you turn it off? Sure you can. But sometimes that shutoff is just temporary, because governments - not manufacturers - mandate that some things are now required, because they're sick of hosing body parts off of highways.
Why would you turn off the auto-brake?
Because, as I explained, it doesn't fucking work right.
It autobrakes for cars that are next to me stopping in a turn lane.
Clearly this showed up on testing, and if it didn't then they did a real shitty job testing it.
And this isn't on a cheap car.
because it has A LOT of false positive errors (meaning it triggers when it shouldn't)
A friends car's emergency brake triggered at a toll booth because it got too close too the barrier, which is required in order for the barrier to automatically open.
He had this issue everytime he got on the highway, and eventually disabled that feature.