Matt Prior
TESTER’S NOTES
Jaguar can seemingly only make a profit by selling the F-Pace SUV
I have a lot of time for Michael van der Sande, who as Alpine managing director brought the A110 to market and was later in charge of JLR’s Special Vehicle Operations. Plus, anyone who owns an Alfa Romeo SZ is all right in my book.
But I have even more time for him since yesterday, when he took a well-aimed pop in an online post at level-one autonomous driving functions, which he described as “a nightmare”.
Citing speed warning systems getting limits wrong, multiple emergency braking alerts and unwarranted steering assistance interventions, he said these systems are “confusing, annoying and (in my humble opinion) not very safe”.