Collision avoidance, will it, or won't it?

[Ducati1098]

I respectfully disagree that is works reliably when, how, and where it's designed to.

That’s fine. I’m sure a lot of people don’t understand how it’s supposed to work. Which is why I posted it earlier including all of its limitations.

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[BroncoB]

That’s fine. I’m sure a lot of people don’t understand how it’s supposed to work. Which is why I posted it earlier including all of its limitations.

I think we all know how it is supposed to work. It sucks though. The alarms go off for no reason (or because of parked cars on the side of the road) scaring the crap out of you and you look around wondering what the hell it is going off for, then 10 minutes later you can almost rear end someone and nothing, or in my daughter's case she did read end someone and no collision avoidance was activated. It is called collision avoidance, but it is definitely unreliable.

 

[Ducati1098]

It is called collision avoidance, but it is definitely unreliable.

No, it’s called pre-collision assist. And like I mentioned, it isn’t going to assist every time. It does have limitations. It was never designed to avoid an accident. Only potentially make one less bad.

Anyway, sorry to hear about your daughter’s accident. Hopefully she was okay.

 

[buck_6G]

I've got a Badlands with the High package and had the same concerns as OP. The pre-collision alert would beep at the same parked car on the side of a main road almost every day, but there was no evidence of any other safety intervention until I was leaving work one day and it saved me from t-boning someone who was speeding down a turn lane illegally.

It happened from my left, when I had the doors off, so I very likely would have been killed. The system signaled LOUDLY and it felt like it braked before I could. My heart was pounding for ten minutes afterward, as that's the closest I've ever come to dying. If the vehicle hadn't warned me, things could have ended very differently.

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