First and foremost, I know I am responsible for driving my car safely, attentively, and not relying on CDS or other braking systems to prevent what my foot, brake, and awareness should.

But humans make mistakes.

It had just got dark.

I pulled up to an intersection of a main road and two military housing complexes.

The intersection itself is pretty dark; as there are no lights along the road, or in the immediate entrance of either complex.

I looked right, because I usually always check the traffic for the lane I am trying to get into first, one car that way, but no way it was the one I hit.

Looked left, saw that it was clear to cross that lane of traffic, double checked right again, and still saw that car's headlights, started to turn left, as soon as I looked forward, and the next thing I know I am t-boning someone.

They were nice people, so if they say they had their headlights on, I will believe them, and it's my fault, but I just do not see how I miss LED headlights even on a dark maroon SUV.

But they were definitely on, when I took pictures of their car after the fact, I am not sure about right after the accident or not. And I took the pictures probably 15-20 minutes, after they had already moved, and the police had arrived... Of which is how I know how bright they are, and I'm not sure how I missed them.

But what I'm more curious about, is how my collision detection system missed them.

It definitely works, because at least once per long drive, if I use adaptive cruise, my brakes for my adaptive cruise, make me slow down, for a car in a lane next to mine.

And at least enough to be annoying, my rear collision detection, emergency brakes, for parked cars, and other inanimate objects, that I am nowhere near... as I am reverse parking.

As annoying as that shit is, I don't turn it off, because it has definitely saved me before.

From scraping mailboxes or guard poles that have been hit and are now at a 150⁰ angle, as opposed to vertical.

I don't know where they were when I started my left turn, where they came from, or how I missed them. I don't know if they have their headlights all we got into an accident, because I didn't even look, or anything, because I went to a minor mental breakdown, until about 30 minutes later, when I decided I should probably take a picture of the damage, before one of us drives off, while waiting for the investigators, because we got into a crash inside, what is technically a military complex...

But would I do know, is I did not get a single alert from my CDS and there was no attempted emergency braking. I had no clue something was in front of me, or anything was wrong, until I was already deploying their airbags.

It was like they spawned in front of me.

Even my car didn't see them.

Is Subaru liable at all, considering I definitely have CDS on and enabled?

Like, I know, ultimately, I am responsible, but accidents like these, where you just don't see the other car, being avoided, are why I spent so much money on a modern car as opposed to just getting a quality 2010 or so for less than 15,000.

Or just staying with my paid off 2019 sonata.

But figured, why spend upwards of $1,000 on an oil change alignment and rotation, as well as, getting new brakes, and all the other maintenance I was getting ready to spend on it, when I could just get a new car, especially when it cut my insurance rates in half.

I still believe do not have a dash cam installed, is there any way to prove that my CDS did not engage without it?

And I'm not sure that's the only safety feature that's not currently working.

I wasn't going fast, but I was going fast enough to mess up my grill pretty bad and definitely crack my bumper and knock my Subaru emblem off and break the mechanism that sends washer fluid to the back of my car, possibly crack the entire bay, because I am low on wiper fluid now...

I also caved in their driver side door and deployed their side airbags.

But other than the before mentioned damage, you can't even tell I was in an accident, no airbag deployments, even though I had a full frontal collision.