@RickyC
Some feedback on the ADAS system - my opinion is that they should be disabled by default.
- Red light / green light alert: I noticed some false positive "traffic light turns green". The camera cannot tell I am in a straight travel lane or differentiate between advanced green for turning and straight through green.
- Keep up with the car: Might be too sensitive. I was in stop and go traffic and it would keep telling me to do this when the car in front of me let go of the brakes and only rolled 2 meters forward. During traffic in rush hour, it was telling me to go three times per minute, until the cars all started rolling slowly instead of coming to a full stop. As someone who drives in rush hour, I would never want to use this system, it is very annoying when I'm going as fast as I can and a car only moves 3 meters ahead, but it's still nagging me to go.
I'm not sure how helpful these functions are for driving, since, by nature of operating a motor vehicle, if the driver is not paying attention to either of these things they are
driving distracted. Therefore, in my opinion, most drivers should not need this functionality as they should be paying attention to the road, traffic lights, etc. With false positives it can become dangerous, especially if the person is staring at their phone, and they hear "TRAFFIC LIGHT TURNS GREEN" and maybe let go of brakes without properly clearing the intersection, when their straight through light is read.
This is why I would recommend having them
disabled by default and allow the user to choose what functions they want after. Perhaps, even, when launching the app for the first time, it could have a splash screen with instructions showing how to enable the extra features, but not have them on by default.
Some features I could see useful with ADAS, especially since this camera keeps its screen on a clock full time:
- Last speed sign passed
- Fixed speed camera location alert (maybe using GPS?)