Normally I don’t give a crap about blind spot monitoring. But last night, I was in the middle lane going like 70. The person in front of me was going like 60. There was NO ONE else on the road. So I checked all around behind me, saw nothing, and went into the left lane. Just as I was about to, the blind spot detection kicked off. Some motherfucker was going down the left lane in a black car with no headlights on. I got in behind him and flashed my high beams at him. He moved over and kept driving with no headlights. Idiot!!
I don’t understand why people don’t care about blind spot monitoring.
I dislike intrusive tech as much as anyone but blind spot monitoring is a passive system, it just blinks a light at you in the mirror.
Its not doing anyone a disservice or ruining the driving experience and now you have some extra safety if there is someone going like 20+ faster than you in the left lane with no lights on when you want to lane change.