1000 miles in my Turbo

[Colinb]

Honestly, most of it is positive, it's fast, handles well for a big car/suv

But here is my biggest bug bear...


That damn active lane keeping, it's down right dangerous if you live in a rural area, more than once I've had it almost spear me into oncoming traffic because it thought I was too close to the edge of the road/hedge..

So I have to remember to turn it off every time I drive holding the button for 5 seconds...


It's not a safety feature it's a death trap.

Also the speed limit warning is just plain wrong on a lot of roads. On a dual carriageway it keeps screaming about speeding... Because it thinks the road is a 30mph not a 70mph...

Why can't these junk "features" just be permenantly deactivated.

 

[SuperH]

I'm not rural so don't have those type of issues with it, other than on smart motorways where the run off from a slip road actually continues in to the hard shoulder that's open as a smart lane. Can you programme the diamond button on the steering wheel to turn it off, to save you having to ferret around behind the wheel each time you get in?

I was hoping the speed limit recognition issue would have been fixed with the navigation update that was pushed out last Friday which also remedied the sign recognition error message that cars with Innodrive had been experiencing from new. It's resolved the error warning, but like you I've noticed that the speed limits it's identifying are very hit and miss. That's also no doubt why the adaptive cruise control still isn't working with road sign recognition. It's frustrating as a) it means I can't properly use the cruise control I paid a hefty whack for as an optional extra and b) you can't rely on the speed limits the car is telling you as you don't trust it. I always have Car Play on, with Google Maps showing in one of the windows, which at least has reliable information on the standard road speed (ignoring any temporary speed limits for road works or smart motorways etc.).

 

[daveo4EV]

Honestly, most of it is positive, it's fast, handles well for a big car/suv

But here is my biggest bug bear...


That damn active lane keeping, it's down right dangerous if you live in a rural area, more than once I've had it almost spear me into oncoming traffic because it thought I was too close to the edge of the road/hedge..

So I have to remember to turn it off every time I drive holding the button for 5 seconds...


It's not a safety feature it's a death trap.

Also the speed limit warning is just plain wrong on a lot of roads. On a dual carriageway it keeps screaming about speeding... Because it thinks the road is a 30mph not a 70mph...

Why can't these junk "features" just be permenantly deactivated.

you can thank your EU overlords for lack of deactivation - since features like these are mandated for newer vehicle's - you can disable them each start up - but they are required by regulations to be re-enabled when the car is restarted…

this along with "cookie" warning and other EU contributions is really starting to piss me off - the latest round of many EU regulation they are now dictating user experience/interface design and based on my 30 years of tech experience they are sh*tty UI/UX designers…

un-checked power to regulate is leading us down a very very negative path - apparently some real doozies are due up in 2028 for what cars "must" do…

 

[SergeyIndy]

This is just the beginning of the imposing regs and a new known complaint from EU owners. Typical recommendation is to use up the diamond button mapped to speed limit sound warning OFF and then disable lane keep by holding the button at every restart.

 

[Diego]

I confirm that on rural or mountain road the active line keeping it's more dangerous than a safety help.
In addiction it looks like it has prevalence on obstacle revelation: 2 days ago I was driving and there was a road sign (due to roadwork) on the right, I started to move the steering wheel to the left but the car moved back to the right and I have to force it to avoid collision with the road sign)

 

[Colinb]

I have the diamond set for the speed warning, and yes the speed on the car is often out of whack with the Google speed limit... It even gets the speed limit wrong on the A43 outside of porsche Silverstone!

Is that the error message I keep seeing pop up that driving assist isn't available?

 

[Colinb]

I just wonder how long till someone gets seriously hurt and sues the car manufacturer because the car caused a collision.

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