Don't have the Giulia yet, but did just take delivery of a GLE with the P3 package. The technology in it is very helpful, especially safety items such as the blind detection, the lane departure, and the adaptive cruise control.There are two Assistance packages (passive and active) and neither is much of assistance lol...
You may want the passive part because it includes backup camera and dimming mirrors but active is mostly just a noise maker....I git a car from existing dealer allocation and it came with both but if you will order the car just skip the active part (lane departure, early collision warning, cross traffic warning etc) and spend money on something more fun
Like everything else it is a matter of what you want....OP seems not to want or need these features and I agree with him....lane departure makes really funny farting noise that can be ridiculously loud if your radio is on, at least it does not interfere with steering like Audi's does....collision warning goes off for silly reasons and mostly freaks out the driver when things are completely under control.....cross traffic warning might save you from red light running lunatics....however it all comes down to how involved you are in driving and distracted by other things....I love driving, am always engaged and find all the nannies distracting actually, specially in busy traffic around DC...I am also former motorcycle racer and spend lots of time on my other italian girl, maybe thats why I do not need blind spot detection, have to be constantly aware of everything around me on different level on a bike and that skill transfers very well to car driving.....have not even tried the adaptive cruise control, might be really useful on less busy highways but I genereally drive with cruise control extremelly rarelyDon't have the Giulia yet, but did just take delivery of a GLE with the P3 package. The technology in it is very helpful, especially safety items such as the blind detection, the lane departure, and the adaptive cruise control.
For a QV, is Driver Assistance Package necessary and useful?
I prefer not to have it, because I think performance car driver should not reply on assistance.
If you can custom order your car, will you have this package?
I'm guessing thats the NEW pricing...LOLWhere did you find two assistance packages?
I can only find one in QV, which costs $1500.
Fwd Collision Warning w/AEB is part of the Driver's Assist Dynamic package on Guilia/TiIs the auto emergency stop feature a part of the active or the passive package?
those assistances are more safety than considering as necessary. i will hope my beautiful alfa stops itself from smashing if i made a mistake.:wink2:For a QV, is Driver Assistance Package necessary and useful?
I prefer not to have it, because I think performance car driver should not reply on assistance.
If you can custom order your car, will you have this package?
Spoken like a Michigander.I have the active system. I enjoy it mostly because it lowers my insurance, enough though it'll pay for itself through the life of the car - but I'm a young guy so it might not help someone's premium who's a bit older. I generally drive with the lane departure warning off unless I'm on the interstate for a long period of time (1+hrs). The "farting" noise it makes is meant to imitate the rumble strips on the side of the interstate, and given what the alternative could've been - the blind spot alert when changing lanes or the obnoxiously loud front collision warning sound - I think the fake rumble is good, especially when I'm driving almost an hour home from a nice dinner late at night. Drive on the left shoulder of the interstate and you'll hear what it sounds like. *BRR BRR BRR BRR*
As for the front collision warning, it has three settings: close, medium, and far. The car came set to far by default and man was it FAR. Way too far to be of any use. Medium distance isn't bad and I drove like that for a while, but there are still a few false alarms when people ahead of you are making a right turn or something. I drive on close now and seem to like it. It's only ever alerted me when I'm in traffic and the guy ahead stops hard. Never had the active auto-braking kick in, although I am happy to have that peace of mind. I've never had something blowing across the road set off the collision warning in any setting, so I assume it would have to be pretty **** big if it did.
It just comes down to how "engaged" a driver you are/want to be. I consider myself to be a pretty engaged driver rarely being distracted, but I still find the convenience helpful. Shunning the use of technology because you think "you can do it better" is the same argument as saying you can drive a manual faster than an automatic because you's a strong, independent driver who don't need no assistance. Yeah, you're a more engaged driver, but that doesn't make you a better driver... That being said, I still would've ordered my car in a manual had I had the chance.
In daily driving, the only system I find convenient is the cross-path monitoring when backing/pulling out of a blind parking spot. But on long drives, or when I venture into Ohio where no one can drive, I enjoy having the package. I also don't want to be the guy who totals his $80k car because someone stopped in front of him. If it won't effect your insurance premiums, and you'd plan on driving with most of the systems off, don't waste your money.
Haha! Actually other side of Ohio - I'm from Kentucky, about 20 minutes south of Cincinnati. But yeah the seatbelt 'ding' is a bit loud, although my OCD is happy that is dings on and off with the dash light.Spoken like a Michigander.
The car certainly has a repertoire of sounds. It really yells at you to fasten your seat belt.