New cars and modern tech

With my Skoda you can turn off the driving aids in less than a few seconds, but it has to be done every time you start the car. Lane assist and speed warning goes off everytime.

I had a Mini Cooper as a hire car and once when doing 70 on a motorway and the safety thing dabbed the brakes, almost soiled myself. No idea why it did that, but that could have caused an accident.

I live rural, with pot holes, faded or no white lines, i was constantly fighting the lane assist with the thing beeping loudly and trying to put me into a ditch.
 
ivrytwr3 said:
With my Skoda you can turn off the driving aids in less than a few seconds, but it has to be done every time you start the car. Lane assist and speed warning goes off everytime.

I had a Mini Cooper as a hire car and once when doing 70 on a motorway and the safety thing dabbed the brakes, almost soiled myself. No idea why it did that, but that could have caused an accident.

I live rural, with pot holes, faded or no white lines, i was constantly fighting the lane assist with the thing beeping loudly and trying to put me into a ditch.
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my distance sensors are the same, will sometimes bleep and give you a detection warning and there's nowt there. it's like driving w/ my mom, it will sometimes heavy-brake when the car in front is dozens of yards away.
another annoyance was getting caught in heavy snow last week, bleached down and coated the car and about 3 min into the trip a lump of snow must have slid over the bumper cos i had to drive for 10 mins w/ a constant bleeping warning that i was a foot off colliding with something.
 
wolfie138 said:
another annoyance was getting caught in heavy snow last week, bleached down and coated the car and about 3 min into the trip a lump of snow must have slid over the bumper cos i had to drive for 10 mins w/ a constant bleeping warning that i was a foot off colliding with something.
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I'm getting that atm with the snow and ice. Beeping and xmas tree dashboard - puts my OCD into overdrive.
 
Reversing [out of a space] onto a busy road is fun as the rear cross-traffic sensors slam on the brakes every 3 seconds as another car is approaching :rolleyes:
 
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I don't know what some of you are doing in your cars. We've got a Peugeot and a Seat with front brake assist and I've done 10k+ in both, I can count on one hand the number of times I've had a warning that I'm too close and have had zero cases of it randomly trying to put me through the windscreen
 
mjt said:
Reversing [out of a space] onto a busy road is fun as the rear cross-traffic sensors slam on the brakes every 3 seconds as another car is approaching :rolleyes:
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That just sounds like it's doing what it's meant to, stopping you blindly reversing out into passing traffic? :p
 
Diddums said:
Yes, because these two brands are famous for using the same parts.

Christ on a bike, use your pip a bit please.
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I had scanned a few audi videos they can identify adults no acknowledgment of children&animals .. if one brand could do it they'd make a song & dance etc.
and the others would 'soon' catch up ...
I did two tests with an audi versus a munkjac anyway, as I had said ... maybe my AI is faster than the cars response though.

that exotic infrared head up display audi had/have? on top end cars would be a bonus though.
 
Kenai said:
That just sounds like it's doing what it's meant to, stopping you blindly reversing out into passing traffic? :p
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I know what you mean, but when the spaces are 60° or so to the road, there's not really much else you can do!
 
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Kenai said:
Well, wait until there aren't cars approaching I guess would be the correct thing to do :D
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Which you can't see because of the cars around you, and have to rely on the reversing camera, but the car won't let you reverse to get a peek out? :p
Granted, it's a very niche situation but my god was it annoying last week!

also, how else can you get out without having to force your way into oncoming traffic? I have a black SUV, GTFO of my way
 
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mjt said:
Which you can't see because of the cars around you, and have to rely on the reversing camera, but the car won't let you reverse to get a peek out? :p
Granted, it's a very niche situation but my god was it annoying last week!
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Use the tech to your advantage then, you don't need to see, just keep trying to reverse until it lets you go! I jest but it sounds like exactly the sort of situation it's actually useful for - stopping you accidentally reversing into approaching traffic that you didn't (or couldn't in your case) see.
 
Kenai said:
Use the tech to your advantage then, you don't need to see, just keep trying to reverse until it lets you go! I jest but it sounds like exactly the sort of situation it's actually useful for - stopping you accidentally reversing into approaching traffic that you didn't (or couldn't in your case) see.
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Yes it's very clever and by slamming on the brakes (rather than just an audible beep like the front assist) it undoubtedly saves lives but I literally couldn't even creep backwards to get a better look :mad:

Anyway, Audi is still one of the best ones out there IMHO. Some of the less expensive brands I assume have lower R&D budgets and their systems are massively inferior and rudimentary, especially lane assist, etc. I just wish that more manufacturers had actual buttons for easy (de)activation!
 
My model 3 struggles at times and dives for the exit on a motorway or freeks out if the lanes split or merge, you kid of get used to it but for me it just demonstrates how far they are from the FSD piece.
 
ivrytwr3 said:
With my Skoda you can turn off the driving aids in less than a few seconds, but it has to be done every time you start the car. Lane assist and speed warning goes off everytime.

I had a Mini Cooper as a hire car and once when doing 70 on a motorway and the safety thing dabbed the brakes, almost soiled myself. No idea why it did that, but that could have caused an accident.

I live rural, with pot holes, faded or no white lines, i was constantly fighting the lane assist with the thing beeping loudly and trying to put me into a ditch.
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Which is why I could never have a vehicle equipped with LA that couldn’t be permanently disabled here en Le Sticks.

50% of the roads I use have no road markings at all, but are covered in patches of new tarmac or overbanding. The ones with markings are often covered in mud or slow moving agricultural equipment which require you cross or drive over centre and edge markings. Most have 50cm or least of grass verge before you’re into a drainage ditch, a solid rock wall or a drop of several metres into a field or a ravine.

My Duster’s ABS and a set of excellent headlight bulbs are all the driver aids I need.
 
silvagti said:
Couldn't agree more. I don't want to sound conspiratorial but if feels entirely deliberate that manufacturers are increasingly designing cars to ensure they won't be economically viable to repair and maintain 10 years from now !

I guess it makes good business sense to build a product that needs to be replaced after 7-10 years. However it does make a mockery of all the greenwashing they're promoting when they're clearly building cars with a shorter shelf life than they otherwise need to have.
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Halogen bulbs look crap, the end
 
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