Autonomous Braking.

I enabled autonomous braking on my L322 for 2 reasons when I retro-fitted adaptive cruise control which only activates while using cruise control, only sounding its significant warning when CC isn't active but will assist stopping if the brakes are used. The first reason was in case it can detect kangaroos at night and secondly because I'm not getting any younger and therefore I may make mistakes that I might not have made when younger. It erroneously activated once at 100 kph as I approached a vehicle that had partly pulled off the road on a RH slight curve. The braking was over-ridden by using the accelerator but not before a dramatic decrease in speed and not helped by my having the gearbox in manual mode to stop unnecessary downshifts. The driver of the vehicle tailgating me must have had quite a shock as that vehicle didn't get close to me again.

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Originally Posted by Saitch

Rain sensing wipers is another. If it's raining, surely a driver would realise to turn the wipers on.

Auto headlights I agree with.

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If anyone actually 'needs' these, they shouldn't have the privilege of having a drivers license.

" The driver of the vehicle tailgating me must have had quite a shock as that vehicle didn't get close to me again."

And there is the issue, if it was a large truck or semi trailer, you may have been rear ended, and in an unnecessary accident.

That adaptive cruise control do the brake lights come on? I have noticed many vehicles travelling in rural areas with the brake lights coming on intermittently, which is a PITA for a following vehicle.

This new Cruiser we have,doesnt have adaptive CC,but will townshift automatically going down a hill,to pull the speed back, if needed, something the D4 didn't,it continually over ran down hills.

It works well in the Triton. Unobtrusive and clever. Doesn't work above 80kph so if a roo jumps out when you are doing 100 with a b double up your jaxie you don't have a bad day out. Cheers

The L322's adaptive cruise doesn't operate the brakes or brake lights but forward alert and stop/go braking which requires adaptive cruise to be operating do apply the brakes and operate the brake lights. Forward alert can be enabled/disabled via the instrument cluster. No braking occurs when forward alert is disabled although the alarm will still sound. Stop/go requires forward alert to be enabled.

Mine's radar unit is slightly out of alignment to the left and possibly slightly too high but I've not bothered to R&R the bumper to adjust the aim. However since the braking incident I apply light throttle to over-ride ACC to prevent braking if I think the system might activate, whereupon only the alarm sounds as it often does in traffic (CC not active) as I approach a slowing vehicle without fully releasing the accelerator.

Radar only works on metals. These days imaging plus radar is used to detect animals including people not wearing or carrying anything metallic.

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Originally Posted by Saitch

Rain sensing wipers is another. If it's raining, surely a driver would realise to turn the wipers on.

Auto headlights I agree with.

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The washers and wipers don’t even work on the 101 - I have to be aware enough to check the BOM radar before striking out to dodge the showers... [emoji56]

Auto headlights? In my personal view, the 90/11/Defender had a better idea - if you have the headlights on when turning off the ignition, you bark your knuckles on the light switch!

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Better off driving yourself me thinks!
If the car is NOT fully auto driving why was no one in the drivers seat?
Jonesfam

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I'm sorry, but I think a lot/most of this new in car safety Tec is just Dumbing Down Driving!
Why can't drivers be situationally aware? Learn to brake properly, drive to stay in their lane, learn to control over/under steer, turn their head, etc?
I will sound like an old fart, which I am, I was ought to drive, mainly, by an ex race driver who took us out on dirt race tracks in Mini's, we soon learnt car control.
People are learning to rely on the car saving them, bad mistake in my opinion.
The new stuff is not all bad but should people rely on it?
Jonesfam

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Why can't drivers be situationally aware? Learn to brake properly, drive to stay in their lane, learn to control over/under steer, turn their head, etc?

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Paul, you left out THINK. [bighmmm]

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Originally Posted by JDNSW

Auto headlights? In my personal view, the 90/11/Defender had a better idea - if you have the headlights on when turning off the ignition, you bark your knuckles on the light switch!

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The auto headlights in my Mazda and Triton work very well. The Triton has auto dipping and high beam and that is very very clever. I still like driving the D2 with none of this, but the mod safety items are well worth having. Cheers

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Originally Posted by ozscott

The auto headlights in my Mazda and Triton work very well. The Triton has auto dipping and high beam and that is very very clever. I still like driving the D2 with none of this, but the mod safety items are well worth having. Cheers

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The Auto dipping in the Equinox is an abomination and shouldn't be legal so it's turned off or else every second car flashes you as it has major issues around town particularly with streetlights and I think it thinks other cars are streetlights so it doesn't do anything.

The auto on/off on the Hilux and most new cars is great IMO - I always just leave my low beams on and they go off when you get out of the car.