Not having that much situational awareness sounds super dangerous. 50 ft is way too little for safe driving.
Of course there are cases the system doesn't work at all and is not well suited for surface roads very well.
Its behavior is very predictable and easy to feel when its seeing something I'm not. (Slowing down to match speed 1:1 with the car in front of me when they let off the gas is a common example)
If something happens suddenly in that range, you might not be able to brake in time even if you were driving at just 20 mph.
You might actually mean a longer distance?
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Safe-driving-distance-2-...
They never, ever are. We do not enforce good driving except after people die (or even then, vehicular homicide has low sentences).