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- Labbix
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- DiscoStu
- Member Since: 28 Apr 2016
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JonM wrote:
That's what I have on mine. It's referred to as "Steering Assist" in the manual and in the car's settings.
It's far from being autonomous driving, if you drift towards the white line, it puts in a steering input to steer you back away from the line but what it doesn't do is then point the car down the centre of the lane, it leaves you drifting across to the other side of the lane until you get close to that line then it steers you away back towards the opposite side again.
I use it quite a lot, but if you don't actively steer the car you'd zig-zag down the lane like a drunkard. Even worse, on country roads it detects the white line but not the grass verge so it would push you away from the line but not stop you crashing up the verge and in to the hedge.
The other annoying thing is that after overtaking and you want to return to the left lane, you have to remember to indicate left to stop the system from fighting you to prevent you crossing the line. You can just overpower it but it comes as a surprise if you had forgotten that it was switched on.
Mine really tried to scare me once on a motorway when driving in to low sun on a stretch that had recently had roadworks. The temporary lane markings for the road works had been erased leaving shiny black tarmac but that was reflecting the low sun and the system though it was the line it should follow. The erased line it tried to follow moved over to the right so it tried to push me in to the next lane which already had a car in it.
No, you’re talking about Lane Keep Assist. Cruise Assist keeps you in the centre of the lane, not zig-zagging.
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- DiscoStu
- Member Since: 28 Apr 2016
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- MalithS
- Member Since: 16 Aug 2018
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JonM wrote:
Interesting......
So presumably it uses the same hardware (cameras and power steering input) as ours but the programming must be better.
Which poses the question.....can ours be upgraded with a software update?
Hi Jon,
Yes what you describe is called 'Lane Keep Assist' which only helps keep you in lane and stops you 'drifting' out of lane. The Active Steering Assist will actually centre the vehicle in lane and steer (to some degree) around corners and keep the car going straight (as long as system detects pressure on steering to know you are holding it). This is very similar to other OEMs offerings as well. It only became an option from 19MY vehicles, and was available right from the start of 19MY to order (it has always been bundled up with the 360 camera - although it has no reliance on the 360 cameras to work).
Like you say you might have the hardware to drive the new feature as it will be new software in the forward facing camera/other modules that actually drive this feature. I'm sure someone will work out how to code these cars soon -
- eelpout
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- MalithS
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- mse
- Member Since: 19 Feb 2017
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Ive been using it for 7000 miles now - i love it, car is effectively autonomous although the sensor to check your holding the wheel is annoying - it goes off sometimes when i am holding it!
System freaks people out though
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- eelpout
- Member Since: 01 Jun 2017
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I just hope they've improved the vehicle detection as the one in my MY2017 I can't rely on to recognize reliably a vehicle in front of me. It's quite erratic.
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- mse
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- eelpout
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mine is really sensitive to car color and how much light is falling on it, i'm guessing there has to be enough contrast to detect it.
i'm just hoping that 3 years on they've improved it.
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