new car that auto brakes

bexley5200

have you seen the advert for the new volvo xc60 auto braking ,city safety.

White Line

Just encourages careless driving IMO. Why can't people just pay attention.

I highly doubt a big bag will get stuck on your window just before a dog runs out. :roll:

bexley5200

mabe we should ban all cars people would be fitter

stevenmh

I highly doubt a big bag will get stuck on your window just before a dog runs out.

True. Although, the driver who was reading the newspaper, as there was nothing else for him to do on his commute, might have just bumped into a cyclist who flew into the air landed on the windscreen, consequently obscuring any view the driver might have had of the poor little dog.

Poor dog.

Does anyone know if these detectors can see a single cyclist?

DaSy

We've just got one of the Volvo XC60's, and the City Safety feature, as it is called, only woks between 5 and 30kmh, and reckons it will only completely stop a collision under 15kmh, and mitigate one up to 30kmh.

I have absolutley no intention of testing it, and can't imagine too many people will just think "oh well, I'll let the car stop itself, I can't be bothered to brake". It is also supposed to be pretty violent braking, so again, not really an enticing substitute to just driving as you normally would.

It says in the blurb, that it may not see a bicycle or other smaller objects, it would depend if they were in the line of the laser or not.

Apparently there are a lot of accidents with people just gently trundling into each other in towns and cities across the world, and this is the answer; seems odd, but it came as standard, so it's not doing me any harm.

That said, I did once let my first automatic car gently trundle into the guy in front, when I was looking for a tape in the glovebox, in a line of stationary traffic (well most of it was stationary!), I forgot to hold the brake on, so it gently rolled into the next car, I felt a proper twunt....

fungus_the_muffin_man

I can see it being useful at roundabouts. I would think you get quite alot of minor bumps at them.

cougie

Did anyone see the press test that Mercedes did of their auto braking ? They set up a hangar and filled it with'fog' and parked a couple of cars in there - and then their test driver drove into the hangar at about 40 - with no intention of braking.

He smashed into the cars.

Turned out someone had pressed the switch to turn the autobraking off.......