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The big turnoff of lane departure warning tech. https://t.co/wRbfXC0OUF

— IIHS (@IIHS_autosafety) July 14, 2017

Who wants to listen to a repetitive bell going off every time you forget to signal before a lane change, or swerve around a pothole? Nobody, that's who.

Actually, according to the IIHS, about 46 percent of drivers might. That's the percentage of vehicles that had auditory lane-departure warning systems turned on in a recent study. More than half of drivers hate the constant dinging so much, they turn the systems off entirely.

That's a shame, because accidents that involve…

Safe? You bet. The 2016 #F150 is the toughest, smartest, most capable and safest F-150 ever. https://t.co/Vt9mvSkJMD

— Ford Trucks (@FordTrucks) April 12, 2016

Only one pickup was able to attain the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's highest safety ratings this year, acing every test it was put through, and earning an IIHS Top Safety Pick. That truck was the humble Ford F-150.

There had certainly been some squabbling among truck lovers since Ford changed the F-150's body from steel to aluminum. Competitors jumped on the chance to make aluminum sound weak, and unsafe. Yet the…