I'd suggest that on the car you are driving, it is defective! I've driven a good dozen cars with lane assist, and I have never, ever experienced anything like that.
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[Misc] Lane keep assist on cars
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Flounce
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- Nov 15, 2006
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Nope, because if you pull out to overtake a parked car and go over the line or are on narrow country lane and cross the line it will try and pull you back or alert you if you have just set warning rather than taking over control. You have to indicate to nullify it.
Anyway it seems some think it’s a good thing so we are all different
Baldseagull
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That would be really useful when I am trying to roll a fag.
The current VW version is absolutely NOT like this. It will not allow you to do this without sounding the alarm, and flashing up the 'Please take control of the steering' message.
It is there to correct the steering if you drift, and shouldn't really be used for anything else, IMO.
Greg Bobkin
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- May 22, 2012
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I'll add 'intelligent' cruise control to the list too (now THAT'S something I'll very rarely use). Twice driving up the A23 in different Mercedes-Benz models, the car picked up the 40mph speed limit of the slip road, and slowed from 70mph accordingly. Another time – in another car – it thought that the speed limit going through the M25 roadworks was 10mph (again, on the slip road).
Shambles. Cars and technology trying to be too clever for its own good.
Sorrel
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In the UK I’ve tended to signal moving out to overtake, but not always when moving back into the previous lane, especially if no one else except the overtaken vehicle was nearby.
It was doing that in Spain that made me aware this was a feature in modern cars.
Gabbafella
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- Aug 22, 2012
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Scared the shit out of me the first time it happened, I had to look through all the settings and figured out what it was. It pulls way harder than I'd expect it to, just doesn't seem like a very safe safety feature to me, but as I said I'm pretty inexperienced when it comes to driving so maybe it's just that I'm not used to it as my car doesn't have it.
Yes agreed, or when driving and there’s no one else in the immediate vicinity other than the car you’re overtaking. Whenever I’ve accidentally left lane assist on, it’s been quite counter productive in this scenario and made me feel out of control, I hate it!
It seems very sensitive on my car and picks up lines (e.g. tarmac joins) that aren't lane markers, so can start dragging the car and telling me to concentrate when it shouldn't.
I think it's the injustice of being told off when I have done nothing wrong that annoys me the most (and I get enough of that at home)
I think it's the injustice of being told off when I have done nothing wrong that annoys me the most (and I get enough of that at home)
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This can definitely be an issue in road works!
Hove Seagull
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I assume you're not married then
cheshunt seagull
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It's the same with my Seat Leon.
Ha ha, I have edited my post appropriately
I’ve got a Tiguan as well and I adhere to all of this …..
Cheshire Cat
The most curious thing..
The optional-extra indicators on BMWs must be phenomenonally expensive, as nobody seems to have bought them.As a BMW driver I’d say that’s only partly true. Mine also has an automatic feature that flashes the headlights at anyone in front of me who isn’t going as fast as I would like. I haven’t found a way to disable that.
brighton_dave
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Having to indicate when changing lanes is a good feature for sure.
The only annoyance at the minute is last minute pot hole avoid, where it tries to pull you back into them.
Heaven forbid trying to avoid a little old lady stepping in front of you, only to find lane assist decides it's safer to wipe her out.
The only annoyance at the minute is last minute pot hole avoid, where it tries to pull you back into them.
Heaven forbid trying to avoid a little old lady stepping in front of you, only to find lane assist decides it's safer to wipe her out.
pb21
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- Apr 23, 2010
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I was joking!
Don’t think mine has them. It has those orange light things which flash together when you want to park outside a school or a post office, is that what you mean?
Again - it seems that not all of these systems are the same. In my experience, in multiple VWs the lane assist does NOT pull you back when you make a deliberate action to turn the wheel left / right (for example to miss a little old lady) - only when you drift towards the lane markers
