Audi traffic sign recognition trying to get me speeding
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Probably just assumed it was the national Audi speed limit 
As said above, so many road signs are in a terrible condition or in a poor position that it'll no doubt confuse systems and lead to arguments in court about who is responsible, even if it's obvious.
This sign just after the Merseyflow bridge is bound to cause issues. It gets me every time I drive past. You're actually on a 60 road at that point.
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As said above, so many road signs are in a terrible condition or in a poor position that it'll no doubt confuse systems and lead to arguments in court about who is responsible, even if it's obvious.
This sign just after the Merseyflow bridge is bound to cause issues. It gets me every time I drive past. You're actually on a 60 road at that point.
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grumpyscot said:
Hardly works in our county anyway as most of the speed signs have become obliterated by foliage. Council allegedly has no money to finance cutting the foliage - but has the money to provide and plant out planters etc in the towns. Obviously, decor comes before safety
Roadsigns are county council responsibility, pretty planters, etc are district/borough council.robemcdonald said:
Are you it isn’t set up in KM/H?
It appears the sign it read was the limit sign on the back of the coach, which would have been in km/h.I realised a while ago that all new cars are making the driver a beta tester. This tech is all about driverless cars, totally useless in cars driven by humans.
Told the wife to stop using the one in her Golf - there have been half a dozen 30-limits where it was telling her (or me) it was a 40.
Presumably the 30-signs were obscured (trees/traffic/whatever) if it's camera-led, or the database is s
t if it's GPS-led, but either way it wouldn't be VW paying the fine and getting the points.
(one of these roads was a recently-converted 30-limit (semi-residential 4-lane single carriageway) which had suddenly sprouted averaging cameras when it changed to a 30)
Presumably the 30-signs were obscured (trees/traffic/whatever) if it's camera-led, or the database is s
t if it's GPS-led, but either way it wouldn't be VW paying the fine and getting the points.(one of these roads was a recently-converted 30-limit (semi-residential 4-lane single carriageway) which had suddenly sprouted averaging cameras when it changed to a 30)
OutInTheShed said:
Who wanted this half baked techno crap?.
Its just a gimmick that's been around for ages. We had it on a Nissan Quashquai 10 years ago and it was pretty faultless then but of little practical use.OutInTheShed said:
What are these cars going to be like when they are a few years out of warranty?
I'd imagine people will look at roadsigns instead.OutInTheShed said:
Some people are not buying new cars because they are put off by this kind of nonsense.
Like who? Farmers? Farmers Mums?MustangGT said:
robemcdonald said:
Are you it isn’t set up in KM/H?
It appears the sign it read was the limit sign on the back of the coach, which would have been in km/h.I realised a while ago that all new cars are making the driver a beta tester. This tech is all about driverless cars, totally useless in cars driven by humans.
grumpyscot said:
Hardly works in our county anyway as most of the speed signs have become obliterated by foliage. Council allegedly has no money to finance cutting the foliage - but has the money to provide and plant out planters etc in the towns. Obviously, decor comes before safety
Round here the farmers are paid to cut roadside hedges with a tractor and flail attachment. But obviously they stop just before road signs. No idea who is supposed to cut the last 6 inches (by hand presumably), but it's never done, and the signs get overgrown in otherwise neat hedgerows.untakenname said:
The issue with this is when people follow what's on the dashboard rather than what's the posted limit, often I see modern cars slow down for no apparent reason and I'm pretty sure it's due to the car misreading a sign and then slowing the car down.
Does the traffic sign recognition work with cruise control?....I've never used cruise control, I assumed it would be based off whatever speed you set and would adjust accordingly with the distance to the object in front, as well as the lane assist to minimise driver input. Would be kind of wk if it was going 70mph but you pass a van that has one of those "limited to X" signs on it and the system slows you down for no reason.I had an E Class that could use the speed limit recognition to adjust the cruise control. It got switched off after it slammed on the brakes as I went to pass a European truck which 50 in red circle on the back of the trailer on the M6.
It's nowhere near accurate enough - I noticed several times it would show 50 on sections of motorway where it used outdates speed limits from the satnav in the absence of signs.
It's nowhere near accurate enough - I noticed several times it would show 50 on sections of motorway where it used outdates speed limits from the satnav in the absence of signs.
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