Subaru Is Hit With Another Lawsuit- Owners Say EyeSight Is Dangerous

Speak for yourself, but mine seems to be dramatically worse than yours. I’ve had several instances of a 20-30 degree correction into an exit lane that I didn’t signal to be in.

It looses the line on the right and flings itself wherever it needs to be in order to read that line again.

You have to understand that the line on the right side disappears on every. single. exit.

So, you might say, only use these features while you’re in the left lane. Well, in the left lane it will read the guardrail or wall is in the lane when you’re in a sweeping right turn and just brake HARD as to mitigate the phantom hazard.

If I signal a lane change, it still corrects my lane departure occasionally.

Cruise control will be following a vehicle, and turn off without a beep( plus not turn back on again) and fail to register there is a vehicle in front me me anymore until I restart my vehicle.

I never drive like I have a self driving car. I drive like my car has features that I paid for, and those features, while protecting me in many occasions, may also harm me or my family when it begins to malfunction. When you bring it to the dealership and they tell you it’s all correctly calibrated, what else can you do except sue?

Excellent reply, I concur. If they don’t like lane keeping, turn it off simple as that.

Mine tried throwing me into a ditch and within a few minutes crossed the center lines directly into a oncoming car and like you had to wrestle it back, absolutely dangerous and in fact I’ve had more close calls in the few months owning this car than 45 years of driving! What’s interesting is mine is a 2022 Australian model so it’s not limited to the US and the dealer tells me everything is fine.

@John Burke, thibk about it...
a system that relies on continuous maintenance to keep it operating safely is inherently dangerous.
There are numerous instances were Subaru's Engineers have needlessly created unsafe conditions where a simple risk assessment exercise would have pointed them in the right direction.
1 example is the SRS Airbag sensors in the passenger seat. These things are notoriously troublesome. They fail and the Engineers decided the default state should be disabled which makes no sense. They should default to the safely device being left on.
I have no doubt that some of these eyesight modules/software aren't calibrated properly and are responding to glare or shadows on the windshield.
I had a Ford edge slam the breaks on when I was passing a car on a 4 lane. Software detected that car on the right and didn't like it for some reason. Luckily there was no Ice on the road or that absolutely wouldn't have ended well.
Point is this technology is all new and it isn't perfect. Many manufacturers are screwing it up in their own ways. Subaru is trailing in technology rather severely compared to their competitors and has been for decades.

Not always true. I drive a 2019 Ascent and keep it immaculately clean. I was once driving down a highway road when the eyesight system malfunctioned and automatically slammed on the brakes. It happened in a 50mph zone and I was almost rear-ended by traffic behind me. The vehicle came to a complete stop in the middle of the highway and I could not move. I had to shut off the vehicle and restart it to clear the malfunction. When I took the vehicle to the Subaru service center, the technicians could not find anything wrong with the system. This incident scared the heck out of me. The truth is technology is great when it works, however it can be a problem when it doesn't. Assuming all incidents are user-error is short-sighted on your behalf. I'll refer you to the issues with Boeing 737 MAX for more evidence of technology failing.

This is completely incorrect. I have had a system and it doesn't matter if the windshield is clean or not. Either way the system should be deactivated and is extremely poor engineering. The test scenarios they run the algorithms through should account for debris on the window. Their system is so bad I deactivate it everytime I enter the vehicle.

Most of the time it's been spot on for me, however within a week of getting the car I discovered that on certain turns if oncoming traffic is going at the exact right speed/time the car will emergency brake. Today I had cruise control on and the car left of me drifted into my lane while I was passed on the right... the car ping-ponged back and forth while I clutched the steering wheel to prevent the oversteer from crashing where usually I would just hug the right line and slow down.

Don't be too quick to judge. My car is impeccable and I was almost killed on the freeway this morning when my cars ABS system engaged at 70 mph and a car slammed in to the back of me. Thank goodness it wasn't a semi and I was alone.

Ive had it trigger from a car in front of me turning... startling the first time maybe but after that all you have to do is hit the gas when it beeps and cuts throttle to override it. It doenst usually hit the brakes unless i am too close and that's on me.