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It's not that I say 50ft is the only zone, but its my main focus, that and traffic around me (Mind you, this is all highway) With the Comma, it moves out a good bit, Allowing me to process more of the future traffic going on and the more edge cases that might come up at highway speeds. Also its vision and radar based so it keeps me 250ft+ from the car in front of me and keeps speed, it won't ever change lanes. This is why its more of a LKAS with better settings.

Of course there are cases the system doesn't work at all and is not well suited for surface roads very well.

Its behavior is very predictable and easy to feel when its seeing something I'm not. (Slowing down to match speed 1:1 with the car in front of me when they let off the gas is a common example)



50 ft is 15 meters and change, at regular car speeds that is much shorter than your reaction speed. It's essentially an accident waiting to happen. At highway speeds you should be looking about 200 ft ahead of you for safe driving. See the 'two second rule', and that's for clear skies, daylight:

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Safe-driving-distance-2-...


50 ft is just three car lengths. That's a really short distance while driving.

If something happens suddenly in that range, you might not be able to brake in time even if you were driving at just 20 mph.

You might actually mean a longer distance?




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