VW Adaptive Cruise/Anti-Collision Radar - Nearly crashed!
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Hi all,
Just looking for advice/thoughts here...
I've recently taken delivery of a Mk7 Gti, its bloody fantastic....one of the features is the adaptive cruise/anti-collision radar thing.
Anyway, merrily driving along yesterday, a Mk5 Fiesta I was following turned left (rather slowly in all fairness) and as it pulled off I accelerated away (rest assured I was NOT tailgating etc), anyway, next thing I know the car beeps and literally stands on its nose!
I mean it was a hugely aggressive stop, my daughter screamed, the car stopped dead and i must have been at least 5 meters away from the Fiesta and it was 80% off the road at that point.
Does this sound normal or should I be getting the garage to look at it urgently? If a car had been behind me it would, without doubt, have read ended me...
Any thoughts?
Just looking for advice/thoughts here...
I've recently taken delivery of a Mk7 Gti, its bloody fantastic....one of the features is the adaptive cruise/anti-collision radar thing.
Anyway, merrily driving along yesterday, a Mk5 Fiesta I was following turned left (rather slowly in all fairness) and as it pulled off I accelerated away (rest assured I was NOT tailgating etc), anyway, next thing I know the car beeps and literally stands on its nose!
I mean it was a hugely aggressive stop, my daughter screamed, the car stopped dead and i must have been at least 5 meters away from the Fiesta and it was 80% off the road at that point.
Does this sound normal or should I be getting the garage to look at it urgently? If a car had been behind me it would, without doubt, have read ended me...
Any thoughts?
Sorry just catching up post work, and some interesting replies...
So to be clear, I had good sight down the road the car was turning left into, it was only a small fiesta of which i'd say everything bar the back bumper had cross the lines (80% ish of the car) into the road when i started to accelerate, i was by no means tailgating (the car actually has another warning if you start getting too close...visual and then beeping)
It is reassuring to hear others have had the same thing or similar, and I agree that whilst this has happened I dont feel inclined to disable completely given scenario's such as those where you look right at a roundabout and the car in front has stopped when it is clear...
That said, my first inclination was to turn it off, it braked alarmingly hard and fast in a scenario where I dont think any car behind me would be prepared for it...I mean picture it........2-3 car lengths behind a car doing 30-40mph, road clears, and he stands the car on its nose...unless you are bloody Houdini you are going to hit me.
I do now have a certain amount of trepidation and concern as to when else such overrides take control of the vehicle away from me in situations when other road users wont expect it.
So to be clear, I had good sight down the road the car was turning left into, it was only a small fiesta of which i'd say everything bar the back bumper had cross the lines (80% ish of the car) into the road when i started to accelerate, i was by no means tailgating (the car actually has another warning if you start getting too close...visual and then beeping)
It is reassuring to hear others have had the same thing or similar, and I agree that whilst this has happened I dont feel inclined to disable completely given scenario's such as those where you look right at a roundabout and the car in front has stopped when it is clear...
That said, my first inclination was to turn it off, it braked alarmingly hard and fast in a scenario where I dont think any car behind me would be prepared for it...I mean picture it........2-3 car lengths behind a car doing 30-40mph, road clears, and he stands the car on its nose...unless you are bloody Houdini you are going to hit me.
I do now have a certain amount of trepidation and concern as to when else such overrides take control of the vehicle away from me in situations when other road users wont expect it.
kambites said:
So were you actually accelerating directly towards the back of the car? Or were was the car already completely out of your path (even if it was still protruding into your lane) when the system hit the brakes?
If the former, it's working as designed. If the latter, it's not meant to do that.
Haha give me some credit, absolutely the latter!If the former, it's working as designed. If the latter, it's not meant to do that.
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