Customers find mandatory safety tech annoying. Automakers may sacrifice safety ratings to avoid intrusive alerts & keep customers happy, especially in Europe.
In May 2025, the sales performance of Ford Maveric is explained in your sources, and you will see that it is shown as a great success for Ford. Although Ford is selling a large number of its pickup trucks, a widespread growth in small pickup trucks such as merekup trucks shows that Ford’s commitment to offering more Owners of modern vehicles often find that Advanced Driver Help and Driver Monitoring Systems may be slightly disturbing.
You probably know that automakers like Toyota are now installing these features more and more in their new models. In Europe, many of these security facilities have become mandatory under the new rules, and they certainly help promote vehicle safety ratings. But now, some European automakers are considering taking some losses of their safety ratings in exchange for closing some of these annoying systems.
According to customers’ response, the most disturbing systems appear to be the speed limit warning and driver monitoring systems, which are most frequent and interfere with their alerts. Compulsory features include speed limit identification and warning, back-up camera and/or sensor aid, driver attention monitoring, lane keeping assistant, blind spot detection, and more. All these features are designed for safety, but their frequent alerts and intervention may seem inconvenient to you.
Leapmotor, a Chinese startup that has a relationship with Stellantis, wants customers to get options on these features. They want either changes in the rules, or these features should be closed by default and they should be available as an opt-in system for customers. Francesco Giacalone, head of the automekar’s euro marketing, says that they will be willing to bear the loss of single Euro NCAP security rating star on some models to reduce the most disturbing features.
Giacalone has said, “Perhaps we need to sacrifice a star, with the entire content of useful and living techniques, to give the right product to the customer? This may be the right choice”.
The company has clarified that it will not mean any compromise on quality. You can be sure to know that they will not go to the extent of launching a car that does not have active security and poor security is spoiled. All vehicles of Leapmotor have been engineered in the side and the frames with high-power stainless steel, so the cabin is strong, and it has a lot of airbags.
All these important security elements will be present. This is just that some active security is required to obtain a five-star rating that not all consumers appreciate equally.
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In short, this situation shows that there is a dispute between the automaker and the customer when it comes to some security systems. You will need to decide if you are willing to bear continuously alerts for the top safety rating, or whether you will prefer low -infiltrated driving experience, even if it means a potentially in the safety rating.
Leapmotor has introduced a new drop-down menu to quickly neutralize certain features in its C10 crossover, showing that automekers are paying attention to customers’ concerns. Changes in the rules probably will be required to close these features by default, but it is the U.S. And in other markets like China, it can affect the decisions of the automaker.
Source: Auto Express
Sophiya’s passion for cars ignited before she was three, and she would identify every vehicle on her street. That enthusiasm fueled her pursuit of a mechanical engineering technology degree and a career covering the auto industry. A four-time Canadian Automotive Journalism Awards winner, Sophiya now serves as president of the Automobile Journalists Association of Canada.
