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@JR RS @Cliff_K Do you have the built-in emergency call system? I do, but if you don't, this would explain why you have to plug your phones in but I don't.

As I understand it, the Skoda Connect app doesn't connect directly to the car; the car sends data to a server and the app reads it from there. You need to link your account to the car but you don't have to physically connect your phone, set up instructions here: https://az749841.vo.msecnd.net/sitesengb/alv1/5e458d18-e50b-4a8f-af48-75a5b1a496c5/SKODA_Connect_Registration_activation.3d864c10c7e634c622aa0db10f0144eb.pdf Have you missed the step "ensure that you have an Internet connection with the vehicle"? If so, you'll need to set up the car's wi-fi connection to first.

Welcome @ABMonro66, sorry you're having problems. My guess is a dodgy battery - there was a batch of defective batteries in 2017 Superbs, mine included. If it's a diesel, maybe you have a fault with the glowplugs.

Apologies, missed your earlier post and forgot that my car from December 2017 is MY18.

I think the 'manouevre braking' (automatic braking at low speeds based on the parking sensors) came in the 2017 model year. You should have the 'Front assist' (automatic emergency braking based on the radar), do you get the distance warning if you tailgate someone (for test purposes only of course 😉)?

Indeed, there's a very long way to go; we're being sold a vision of self-driving vehicles that is basically science-fiction with today's technology.

To add to this, radar does detect stationary objects but the signal processing filters them out; a moving object that subsequently stops continues to be tracked which is why it sometimes does pick up stopped traffic. The ACC also tries to build a model of the road curvature ahead to determine whether an object is in your path or not but can only do this by plotting the paths of moving vehicles ahead. This often goes wrong if you are following a single vehicle that pulls into a lay-by or filter lane then stops while you intend to drive past in a parallel lane - the ACC can only assume that you will follow the same path as the leading vehicle and will slow you down. If another vehicle in front has passed the stopped vehicle then it will usually follow that OK having detected the alternative path. This junction near Redditch gets mine every time if there's only one car in front of me and it turns right: Google Streetview link - A435 near Redditch