question about cars with auto braking systems
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Levo-Lon
Guru
As far as i know its a distance thing..ie if the sensor picks up an object that the car is closing on too fast it just applies the brakes.
son in laws top of the range volve does all this and puts hazard lights on to when you brake hard.
Self parks and has front and rear sensors and cameras ffs ,id stay in bed and let the car go to work..lol
most will just turn the systems off.
son in laws top of the range volve does all this and puts hazard lights on to when you brake hard.
Self parks and has front and rear sensors and cameras ffs ,id stay in bed and let the car go to work..lol
most will just turn the systems off.
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Motorists - dont sit up the arriss of the car in front.
Job done.
Job done.
Globalti
Legendary Member
It's a fairly tightly-targeted radar that picks up the car in front allowing you to set the cruise control and just steer while the car does the braking and acceleration. It's not as clever as a human though because it can't see what's happening ahead of the car in front and anticipate, so you tend to get some fairly heavy braking. During normal driving it also sounds a warning if you're approaching the car in front and haven't started braking, though I haven't yet tested whether it actually emergency brakes or not.
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I wondered if it would stop cars trying to squeeze through. I saw something on a Jaguar Landover link that showed it picks up cyclists in the peripheral so I wondered if it would go some way to stopping that behaviour, eg if they tried to squeeze thro at bollards.
subaqua
What’s the point
- Location
- Leytonstone
It's a PITA to turn off some of the stuff as buried deep in menus.
Wifey mid range 2013 Volvo has city safe braking which means at less than 30 If she sneezes and misses a brake light in front the car stops. It is similar to the sensors on the active cruise control ( adjusts speed for traffic speed) . It is good but if you are a clutch coaster it doesn't work .
My 2009 Volvo puts hazard on on very very hard braking . On normal hard braking it flashes tail lights as a warning.
Never had to use the city safe for real . Only tested it at the dealers with the foam cones .
biggs682
Itching to get back on my bike's
- Location
- Northamptonshire
can you imagine it in 20 years time on the 2nd hand car forecort
vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
- Location
- Meanwood, Leeds
Scary to think someone can get used to it and then get in a car without it
In which case they shouldn't be driving. Observant and alert drivers ordinarily don't need collision avoidance systems nor should they be relying on them to maintain a safe distance between them and the car in front.
It's a system of last resort I.e. it intervenes when the unexpected happens and the driver has not responded appropriately.
I'm not sure all drivers understand that
Profpointy
Legendary Member
are better brakes a safety aid, or an aid to going faster? discuss.
To be honest I think it's a bit of both.
To be honest I think it's a bit of both.
I'm not sure all drivers understand that
Understand what? can you tell I drive cars.
I drive slower now than I used to do, and my brakes are far better now than the non servo one's in my early driving days.
