I am shopping for a new car. I have back problems and love the blind spot monitor and backup camera on my wife's car; I will definitely be getting those. But I have serious doubts about the other stuff available; lane departure warnings and the thing that stops the car before hitting the car ahead of me.
I have never left my lane or hit a car in front of me, and to get those I also have to get navigation, fancy speakers, and a sun roof; none of which I want. So I am not sure how necessary they are.
I test drove a Mazda CX3 yesterday. The lane departure only works over 44mph, and I found it only went off about half the time even then. I couldn't get the collision avoidance thing to do anything at all, but maybe I had to be willing to hit the car in front of me to get it to work. (and that seemed a bit extreme)
Anyone have these things? Your experiences?