Not sure if I should ask this in drivetrain forum but my driver assist is not good. I'm not talking about the lane warning but the lane keeping with the cruise control. I've been lucky enough to have several cars with this feature so I'm used to it. Mine scissors the wheel back and forth and it seems to get worse the longer you don't intervene. I noticed this from the first test drive but I had to have the car and it still had warranty on it so I took the chance. I brought it to the dealership and one of the mechanics test drove it with me. He said he had previously owned a Stinger and the lane keeping sucked but it was normal. The windshield sensors and cameras are clean. On my 2025 Honda Civic Hybrid I could fall asleep if that darn "hands on the wheel" warning didn't chirp at me. My 2018 Volvo V60 Wagon was solid as a rock. My wife's Palisade is fine accept it hugs the right lane marker and gets scary next to 18 wheelers. Any thoughts on your experience?
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Our Premium has all the nannies/bells and whistles. I turn them OFF. The only one I don't fiddle with is emergency braking, which is defaulted to ON every time you start up. Since I brake like a wise man, I've experienced it engaging only a couple of times, when some maroon dodges in front of me without warning while slowing down, e.g., to get over to exit the freeway too late.
I like the smart cruise. It's smooth in our car, but I've read complaints of it not being smooth, but rather jerky and surging.
The blind spot warning could be useful, but I don't want to even try it out, because a lifetime of checking my mirrors has made such a device redundant even if it works as intended.
So-called lane keep assist is the feature that I hate even the thought of. You said you "could fall asleep", in a joking way, but it is no joking matter with idiots. They really believe that they can let the car do the driving which is just insane.
I like the smart cruise. It's smooth in our car, but I've read complaints of it not being smooth, but rather jerky and surging.
The blind spot warning could be useful, but I don't want to even try it out, because a lifetime of checking my mirrors has made such a device redundant even if it works as intended.
So-called lane keep assist is the feature that I hate even the thought of. You said you "could fall asleep", in a joking way, but it is no joking matter with idiots. They really believe that they can let the car do the driving which is just insane.
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Personally I'd rather be the one driving the car. The car doesn't know about potholes or small critters and won't know well enough to avoid them. The way I see it, the less you rely on these systems the more aware and alert you'll be unless you're just tired or impaired.
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I appreciate the feedback but I wasn't asking if you like it or use it. I have found it very useful at times like when I can't avoid taking a business call or doing anything that might be distracting. The hands on the wheel minder exists for a reason. Maybe there is a timing retard/advance retrofit kit for the Stinger so you can have total control over the spark just like a 1928 Indian.
Are you sure you're using the feature that continuously steers vs. the one that just corrects when you start to leave the lane? Kia has had several iterations, and I believe even changed what the same-named features do.
I think in the latest iteration, Lane Keep Assist just intervenes if you start to drift out of the lane without signaling, meaning with no steering input you will ping-pong between the lines, while Lane Follow Assist will keep the car centered in the lane.
I believe the icon with the car between two lane lines is Lane Keep (no active steering until you drift), and the icon with the steering wheel between two lane lines is Lane Follow (continuously steer to center you).
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Right. The one with the steering wheel Icon on grouped with the cruise control buttons on the right side of the wheel. Lane follow. It's very busy. Looks like Fred Flintstone is steering (boomer reference).
I'm sure that dill Lumberjack from Canada will tell you to just do you.
Anything better than living in a shithole called Canada I expect
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What year is your car Noguru? The good lane keep didnt come until the 22 model. The crappy lane keep on the <=21 is so-so for me. My car tracks straight as an arrow, even with my hands on the wheel it yells at me. It tends to hug a little right but it doesn't ping pong much. Our highways are asphalt so there's tire grooves the car mostly follows without LKA. It wont do hard turns and its not great in the city. I just did a couple hundred KM on a major highway overnight and was pretty comfortable with LKA. The highway is very long, straight, and well marked, with no traffic. It even shut up for a good 5 minutes without me touching the wheel for a bit there. It doesnt scissor until it tests for my grasp and even then its slight.... it feels floaty when its testing me. I dont usually use LKA because I like to hug the lines when playing racecar driver, but when I do thats mostly my experience.
GetFd stay on topic, grow the f*ck up, and stop being a belland. Nobody is here to trash talk other countries, we're here to talk about cars.
GetFd stay on topic, grow the f*ck up, and stop being a belland. Nobody is here to trash talk other countries, we're here to talk about cars.
Interesting. Mine is a 2022. It was built in 7/21 though.
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Maybe the dealer can double check to ensure you've got the latest firmware on all the modules.
Yes, at some point - was supposed to be all '22 models - the lane assist got much better. My '18 follows the right line NO MATTER WHAT. In the right lane and there's an exit? You're taking it! Pretty annoying.
You might've just gotten an early build and are S.O.L.
Yes, at some point - was supposed to be all '22 models - the lane assist got much better. My '18 follows the right line NO MATTER WHAT. In the right lane and there's an exit? You're taking it! Pretty annoying.
You might've just gotten an early build and are S.O.L.
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In my 2022, it needs rotational input/torque on the wheel to stop complaining. Not the weight/pressure of your hand, like on other cars (which I've seen people hack by adding a drink holder or other weight to the wheel).
So you can have both hands holding the wheel, but if you aren't providing any steering input at all, it will still complain at you. Or you can have both hands completely off it, and just give it a small wiggle every so often, and it'll be happy.
My solution is usually just to hang one hand on the bottom of the wheel, with its weight pulling me just a hair toward the right line. That gives it constant steering input to keep it happy.
It's not the hands on the wheel nanny that is the issue. It is the constant steering left and right which gets worse. I can't have my hand off the wheel for long because the sawing on the wheel gets worse till it seems dangerous. I think I've been able to let go long enough for the nanny to come on exactly once.
Grump
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Yeah that's not normal.
