New Toyota Safety Features - Helpful??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We bought a new Toyota Corolla Hybrid and this is our first new car in 15 years. Our previous car didn’t even have a backup camera.

All these whiz bang safety features are reassuring, but ours has seems to be slowing down for stop signs and cars in front of us on its own, without having adaptive cruise enabled nor with any brake warnings (I’ve seen that alert when I come up fast on a car).

Is this normal, to have such an aggressive drive for you safety braking system? Or is something wrong with our car? It seems fine on highway, so I wonder if it’s more aggressive regenerative braking when we take our foot off the gas?

If it’s smart features is it giving me bad habits for when I drive regular cars??

It's either the regenerative braking setting (because you say it's a hybrid), collision avoidance or brake assist setting. They can all be changed/customized in your vehicle settings. Call your dealers service center, or swing by, and they will show you how. For me, it was the regenerative braking, which I ended up setting to low.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This crap is why I’m just not interested in any more new cars.

I know when to begin stopping for a stop sign or red light or traffic or any of dozens of other reasons I might need to stop. And it’s not a one-size-fits-all deal with stopping. Coasting towards a red light is a different type of stopping than seeing a soccer ball roll out in front of you or a deer jumping in front of you.

I’ll decide. I don’t need or want a car that thinks for me.

Ok bad driver boomer. This is the future and much safer especially since everyone is texting everywhere

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Blind spot warning and back-up cameras are lifesavers.

However, other safety/convenience features can be annoying.

My car has camera all around front and back. Makes getting out of parking spaces a breeze. Not sure I could drive a car without it at this point.

[Anonymous]

OP, I’m renting a 2025 Camry Hybrid and it has the feature you describe. Proactive Driving Assist. It’s also supposed to nudge you away from obstacles on the side of the road, and slow you if you approach a sharp curve too fast. It’s a cool feature.