Pre-collision system for Mav Lariat

[Tbolt]

Every time except for once it triggered (maybe a dozen times total in my 7 months of ownership) when a car turning right was making the turn a little slow but was already out of the lane to where I could safely pass. It's annoying frankly. Now when a car does that, I give a slight nudge to the left on the steering wheel, and it won't go off. That said, last week driving down the highway the car in front maybe 4 or 5 car lengths slammed on their brakes, the alert triggered before I saw the car breaking. I can't say I noticed any enhanced or early breaking but that time was happy the alert went off when it did.

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[MakinDoForNow]

this really depends on your local driving conditions as well as how defensively or aggressively you drive. if you drive defensively in a low-density traffic area you might not ever have precollision braking engage when it's actually necessary and instead you might only have it triggered in error, like a large plastic bag blowing across the road.

if you drive somewhere pretty busy like chicago or atlanta, the traffic density is so high that it's probably going to trigger often if you have it enabled. maybe it would trigger falsely, or maybe it will save you. I could easily see a person getting rear-ended because the truck decided to brake really hard and the person behind you didn't anticipate it or they were just following too closely.

I've never driven in Paris but I've visited and it's absolute mayhem. I think it'll be a long time before automatic braking and especially fully autonomous systems can deal with that type of traffic. there are draft proposals for technology-enabled cars to share traffic information and I think that would be necessary to have everything work smoothly in concert. when that happens, driving yourself will be really expensive to insure because the machines won't hardly ever make mistakes like a human will.

I live near the deer and hog capital of Texas and will leave the active breaking assist active. As an additional comment my wife was driving and had the rapid slow down right turner in front of her and tried to change lanes and someone was in her blind spot so steering was locked and would not let her change lanes. She could not tell if computer applied brakes before or after she did.

 

[colinl]

I live near the deer and hog capital of Texas and will leave the active breaking assist active. As an additional comment my wife was driving and had the rapid slow down right turner in front of her and tried to change lanes and someone was in her blind spot so steering was locked and would not let her change lanes. She could not tell if computer applied brakes before or after she did.

sorry to hear that happened to her. the steering is never locked. it might provide some resistance or steer for you if lane keeping is enabled, especially on a truck with ACC.

but trust me, that steering wheel will move the direction you want it to move even if lane keeping or anything else the truck is doing thinks you should be doing something else.

 

[MakinDoForNow]

sorry to hear that happened to her. the steering is never locked. it might provide some resistance or steer for you if lane keeping is enabled, especially on a truck with ACC.

but trust me, that steering wheel will move the direction you want it to move even if lane keeping or anything else the truck is doing thinks you should be doing something else.

Apparently there was enough resistance that prevented her from turning wheel to the left. Do not know how hard she was trying.

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