One safety feature keeps trying to kill me

I don't think so since it's not just an alert.

 

What I'm trying to say is that it attempts to pull me out of the lane I'm in. So if I let it, it would steer me into the next lane over, causing a crash. I wouldn't have made this thread if it was steering me towards the center of the lane.

 

My first post in this thread was just one theory. Another theory is that it's picking up old lines, cracks, or other imperfections on the road that aren't lane markers, and getting confused where the lanes actually are. Or maybe it's when a glare from a car hits the front camera just right. I've been noticing the glare thing a lot happening with the backup camera actually. It alerts as if there's something passing, I take a closer look, and it's just the sun being bright.

 

I mean it does try to steer sometimes when a lane merges or splits, like next to exits. But to me that feels completely normal and expected. I don't consider that to be a part this problem.

A dirty windshield being the source of such a problem seems questionable. If there's even the smallest chance that a dirty windshield can make the car start swerving, then the driver should absolutely be able to disable it.

Bad calibration does seem more likely. I went to the service center the day after I bought my Prius because the steering wheel didn't turn as easily compared to the one I test drove. Thought it could've been an issue with the power steering, but the techs didn't find anything wrong. Later I realized that I had LTA enabled so turned it off, and the steering wheel stopped being difficult to turn. But this gets even more strange now that I'm learning that LTA is only supposed to work when DRCC is on? I never use DRCC.

 

I assumed it used the camera because it stops alerting after I stop and wait a second, so it felt like a thing caused by a camera being slow to focus. Now I'm curious about what's actually happening there.