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Originally Posted by rwalker
I have them both and after a month, I'm over them.
The collision detector false alarms on parked cars and cars in other lanes when going around corners, emitting a very distracting beep. Adding to the annoyance, you have to turn it off every time you get in the car.
I've never used the parking assistant, the car is just too tidy for me to feel I need it.
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Not sure if you have toggled the distance warning parameter but I set my down to 3 or 5 feet and have not experienced the false alarms on parked cars and such but I do have to say it does get a bit annoying in stop and go traffic and I am not a fan of it turning on by default.
I have driver assist plus only and not park assist and find it a nice to have vs a must have. I can think of 1 occurrence where collision detection saved me from having a close call and since it comes on by default I leave it on 90% of the time. Lane departure, meh, its nice to have if your distracted messing with tech stuff while driving, a better feature for young drivers. I do find it nice to know what the speed limit is, I have not set a warning message yet for x miles over (probably will go with 10) as I have this feature on my radar detector but I do find the BMW GPS more accurate than my Escort. Once again a nice to have when your on new roads or roads that change speeds frequently and speed limit signs are far and few between.