Forward Collision-Avoidance Settings???

[Weareblondi]

Developing a mod so that when the alarm really goes off, a huge ramp will pop out of front so I can just launch the car in front me, dukes of Hazzard style, but backwards. That way I can yell, heeeaaayyyyy!!!!! But with a Brooklyn accented and the giving the bird in all her glory.

 

[Clearly Canadian]

Developing a mod so that when the alarm really goes off, a huge ramp will pop out of front so I can just launch the car in front me, dukes of Hazzard style, but backwards. That way I can yell, heeeaaayyyyy!!!!! But with a Brooklyn accented and the giving the bird in all her glory.

Would this be a single use ramp? Or else how would you drive over it and take it with you?

 

[Weareblondi]

No, forward facing. At speed I figure I can launch a dozen cars in the hov lane on i95

 

[Clearly Canadian]

No, forward facing. At speed I figure I can launch a dozen cars in the hov lane on i95

Oh, I see lol.

 

[Wadood]

Adaptive cruise is in the windshield. I do not see a grill camera on my GT2 AWD. No camera protruding on the front grill. Is it hidden?View attachment 4454 What are the exact purposes of both the windshield and grill cameras? Confused ...

I was wondering what the function of the radar on the front grill is? I'm asking because I dont think on my premium I have even though I do have the Advanced Driver Assistance System package on my premium. So what option am I missing out on because of this?

Edit: I actually do see the black rectangular radar part on my grill in the premium but don't have the chrome accents in it. Is the chrome accents just a styling option on the GT models and I actually do have the radar on my premium?

Thanks!

 

[Wadood]

no one can help me with above question?

 

[Joseph Spiegel]

no one can help me with above question?

The rectangle at the center of the grill is the sonar sensor for adaptive cruise control. There’s no forward camera on the US versions. There’s stuff up in the box by the rear view mirror too. It’s all part of Drive Wise.

 

[StingEm]

The rectangle at the center of the grill is the sonar sensor for adaptive cruise control. There’s no forward camera on the US versions. There’s stuff up in the box by the rear view mirror too. It’s all part of Drive Wise.

The black rectangle is radar and not sonar. It is used for the radar cruise and assists with the automatic emergency braking.

While there’s no forward camera on the front end as part of the 360-degree camera array (since US cars don’t have that), there is a forward camera at the top center of the windshield on the US cars that detects lane markings for the lane keep assist and enables collision/pedestrian avoidance (in conjunction with the radar sensor).

The other sensor at the top center of the windshield is the sensor for the automatic rain sensing wipers.

 

[WildBill]

Yea found that out the hard way this morning. Snuck between car in front and car just barely outside of blind spot warning zone on right side and almost flew through the windshield when auto collision applied brakes.

Granted I was probably (well I was) too close to the car in front (and collision warning sound did come on) but this is a Stinger and every once and a while I want to execute a draft and pass ;-)

Anyway I turned out to be more of a dick than I thought after the hard braking of the collision avoidance turned my smooth pass into a cut in front and brake maneuver. Not cool. may have to turn it off.

That's happened to me before as well. I learned to work around it - but in the beginning when you don't expect it - it's really aggravating. And, yes - the people you "brake-checked" think you did it on purpose. It's crazy - but the nature of the beast, I guess. You'll get used to it if you leave it on. And you'll learn to turn it off as needed, on the fly - without even thinking about it, when you need to...

So is this the collision avoidance system or the adaptive cruse system doing the braking. From the sounds of these situations I'd say it was the cruise that hit the brakes because you were close to the vehicle in front of you. Not that you were coming up on something quickly and needed emergency braking.

My salesperson told me that this situation would happen with the adaptive cruise, so apparently the recommendation is to turn off the cruise control when moving through tight traffic.

 

[StingEm]

So is this the collision avoidance system or the adaptive cruse system doing the braking. From the sounds of these situations I'd say it was the cruise that hit the brakes because you were close to the vehicle in front of you. Not that you were coming up on something quickly and needed emergency braking.

My salesperson told me that this situation would happen with the adaptive cruise, so apparently the recommendation is to turn off the cruise control when moving through tight traffic.

It could be either system depending on how close you are and how fast the collision avoidance system thinks you are approaching the vehicle in front of you. The radar cruise system also triggers off the speed difference between the car in front of you and your car. I’ve seen it keep much tighter gaps than normal if the car in front is traveling faster (someone passes you and then cuts right in front of you at a higher speed). If however you are traveling faster than the car in front of you (ie, you sped up and cut in between two cars while traveling faster than both), then yes I would expect it to brake pretty heavily in that situation.

In my limited experience it is easy to tell the difference between a radar cruise braking event and a collision avoidance braking event. One happens silently and the other happens loudly with warning chimes and vicious braking force. I’ve only had the collision avoidance happen once, ironically in a circumstance where the radar cruise system was already braking. Traffic came to an abrupt halt and radar cruise began to brake, but then the collision avoidance kicked in and turned the braking up to 11. I actually had my foot hovering over the brake pedal in case the radar cruise system wasn’t going to get the car hauled down in time, but the safety system was apparently a little more conservative and decided that it should interve first.

 

[WildBill]

One happens silently and the other happens loudly with warning chimes and vicious braking force. I’ve only had the collision avoidance happen once, ironically in a circumstance where the radar cruise system was already braking. Traffic came to an abrupt halt and radar cruise began to brake, but then the collision avoidance kicked in and turned the braking up to 11.

Thanks! Good to know, that sounds like pretty definitive first hand knowledge of the response of the two systems.

 

[Metalmania82]

I thought I saw an answer to this questions elsewhere but can't remember where and can't find it now:

Is there a way to just use cruise control the regular 'ole fashion way without the automatic speed adaption?

 

[CDv6]

Is there a way to just use cruise control the regular 'ole fashion way without the automatic speed adaption?

Owner's manual chapter 5, page 94. Recommend you download a digital copy of the manual for ease of searching. There's a copy posted directly on this forum, but you might as well just register with the Kia Owner's website, and get the official copy for your model there:

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