I don't know if people who call those features "Nannies" have ever driven a vehicle with adaptive cruise control, and all the other features or not. If not, please go get behind the wheel for a few thousand miles.
I've probably driven close to 100k miles on cars equipped with ACC etc and think they provide an excellent additional layer of safety for yourself and other road users.
Sure, it takes a while to get comfortable with the systems operational and ability. Sure it takes some time to learn when to use them properly and safely.
In the same way aircraft use auto pilot, and automatic preprogrammed navigation, and even autoland (there is a bit of manual input on that one). Those features are not nannies. They perform a valuable service.
Automatic cruise, Blind spot info, automatic braking, automatic restart from zero, etc etc etc are features I'll buy, use and encourage.
I must politely disagree. While I have briefly experienced adaptive cruise control only in a rental vehicle, I found it unsettling as the vehicle did things I didn't want it to in response to traffic pattern changes. I shut it off fairly quickly. Would I have felt different after six months of use? Maybe. I'd rather have a self driving car at that point. I don't want to monitor a computer's behavior. Close pod bay doors please Hal...
I have only owned one vehicle with traditional cruise control. As our long distance highway vehicle I have put hundreds of thousands of miles behind the wheel with the system activated albeit occasionally paused due to road conditions. When it recently failed I was surprisingly relieved. I was absolutely astounded how enjoyable
and relaxing driving became. No more was I required to poise ready to pounce on the brake or steering wheel controls. As I now drove in the manner I was trained to (by deep muscle memory and conscious manipulation combined), I began arriving at my multi-hour away destinations much less fatigued and with less body aches. I drove 12 hours in mixed high speed and stop-and-go holiday traffic on a major interstate with only one stop and no real discomfort until the last 50 miles or so. I was much less mentally drained than usual and never had a cup of coffee the whole way. I'm pretty much done with cruise control.
I was taught to drive by a genius of an instructor in early high school and by my father (who lived to be 100 years of age). They instilled in me the idea of common courtesy and etiquette when on the road. Maintaining a smooth, consistent, and even speed was both the safest action and the greatest favor I could do for my fellow driver's - especially at speed. Thus I have often been complemented on my driving. I was taught to pick my speed based on the posted limits (and allowing for congestion or lack thereof and the prevailing flow rate) and stick to it - to be a predictable component of the broader traffic pattern which would allow unexpected challenges to be navigated safely by the other driver's on the road. A little more fuel on the uphill sections and a little less on the downhill as is appropriate and neither your passengers nor the driver's fore and aft need be concerned or alarmed by your driving untill there is real necessity. (Think pedestrian, animal crossing, downed tree, drunk driver, blowout, etc.) While no angel, I generally drive slower than scofflaw traffic on long, high vis straightaways and much faster than 90-95% of the traffic in curvy mountainous sections all in a stock twenty plus year old pickup.
I will finish this long-winded post by pointing out how annoying driver's with AAC can be. When in front of you their vehicles appear to over-react to slight changes in the speed of the vehicles in front of them as the system, as far as I can tell, is incapable of the foresight to be monitoring traffic 5-10 vehicles (or even much greater distances) ahead and are erratic and disruptive to traffic flow as the system response is only to the vehicle directly in front. I have to watch their every move as their generally poor (or lazy or untrained) judgement prevents them from "soaking up" the variances in traffic flow in a safe and predictable way. When behind they are like cling-ons that just won't wipe away. They rely on my skill to navigate them safely on their journey as they flop around in their vehicle fiddling with their phone or distracted by their snacks and, when, after a relaxing straightaway and the time comes to enter a section of tight mountain curves, will suddenly go wide-eyed as they stomp the brakes and struggle to maintain control of their vehicle at a speed their much newer and better equipped vehicle could handle if only their competence was up to the task. We have watched it happen time and time again. Rant over.
An Ineos representative has said that a base edition Grenadier will not be offered in the US. The choice will be to purchase one of either Belstaff editions and then upspec from there. I picked up the link from glancing around the Ineos Grenadier forum or whatever. The rep starts talking six or seven minutes in.