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Crash avoidance systems only engage when the driver has already abdicated control. Whatever's in front of the car is already doomed without crash avoidance at that point.
And no ridiculous wall of text changes any of those facts.
Here's a video report from last week, showing how crash avoidance works, and that auto break simply fails to work in some vehicles. And yes, the feature does work in other vehicles, as they should in such easy scenarios.
The problem is, you have cars marketed and sold as having these features that simply do not work. And it's clear that drivers who own vehicles with all these magical features get lulled into believing they don't have to pay attention 100% of the time and at a moment's notice.
Nobody on public roads should be OK with this.
That's great but the computer stepping in with the human failed hurts nothing and can only improve the situation