False positives usually happen when there are cars parked along a turn, but I ignore this completely.
Over the course of the five years I had this car it prevented a collision twice this way.
This way takes away the biggest advantage of this systems - that they can react before you do.
Always false alarms, never in time that I could brake at a time that I wouldn't otherwise, and distracting enough to be a real worry. The only situation I can conceive of it being useful is if the driver is falling asleep on the highway.
What were the situations where yours triggered and actually helped?
Second was the car in front of me hitting the brakes when I was looking in the rearview mirror because both of us wanted to overtake the truck in front of us - that other person in the last moment decided not to do it.
Or perhaps they weren't planning on that and just didn't see the truck - I didn't see them indicate.
They both mis-trigger fairly reliably if I'm in a bend in the road and there is a car or object on the outside of the bend, so it seems that they don't take into consideration that I've turned the wheel, or the steering angle. I've also had total mystery alerts, seemingly from spots or a shovelfull of dirt on the road surface.
OTOH, the distance-keeping cruise control on the Mazda is very good, and I've used it for dozens of miles at a time on country roads, with and without traffic.
These emergency auto-braking systems are clearly not ready for prime-time, except maybe for highway use, which is where they can do the most good anyway. I sure as heck don't want my car to auto-brake in any of the situations I've seen the "Collision alert" triggered. Some would have definitely caused accidents.
Still looking forward to it when I’m older and a bad driver anyway. Can’t wait to have a personal vehicle that takes me everywhere.