Assistance systems causing dangerous situations (serious)

[USMA81]

I believe the OP’s round-about issue is the vehicle’s collision avoidance system falsely detecting an imminent collision. I had this happen in my Audi EV when an oncoming car was turning left in front of me, which I saw. This system slammed on the brakes when I let my vehicle get closer to the turning vehicle than it thought I should. In fairness to the system in my circumstance, I did shave it closer than I should have, but the other vehicle was going to be out of my path before I hit it.

The Innodrive for me is great. I mostly use it on the highway. It’s better than the Audi technology from just a few years earlier. I initially thought Innodrive was biased to keeping me too close to the right side of the lane, but I now think I previously had developed a bad habit of manually driving too far left in the lane. So the system has done a better job than me in centering (except in those situations where I do want to be slightly off-center).

I do use the LKA, and disable it briefly with the turn signal as necessary. LKA will “ping pong,” but that Is normal, as the name suggests - just keeping in the lane, and no more.

 

[Timcat]

Lane Keep Assist is hopeless in my Macan and keeps trying to cause the car to veer off course, but in my experience, the equivalent systems in all current cars are just as bad! Innodrive 's Active lane Keeping, on the other hand, is on a par with Autopilot in my Tesla in most respects and better in one, it doesn't suffer from phantom braking.

My "pre-flight" routine is to disable both the speed limit warning, via the diamond button, Lane Keep Assist via the button under the cruise control as soon as I get into the car and I'm then not bothered by these irksome systems!

The presence of these two systems is not the fault of manufacturers like Porsche, but the result of meddling politicians who think they know best, which they don't, and who seek to control every aspect of our lives!

 

[Wivenhoe]

Timcat- I haven’t got my car yet so can’t check it myself. When you turn off the speed limit warning do you still get the speed limits in one of the displays / HUD. I ask as in my very soon to be gone Lexus, if I turn off the warning the limits disappear as well. Hopefully the Porsche system is a bit more sensible.

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