Hi everybody

 

Has anyone had the fatigue sensor triggered an alarm yet?  On a couple of occasions when I thought I was too tired and had to stop at the service station for a coffee & rest, I was disappointed the alarm remained silent! I don't know how it works, but it is not working for me! 

 

SS

It analyses your steering input and flags a warning if it's changed style. You need to have been driving for at least 15 minutes before it's active.

It uses pedal inputs and steering angles to detect possible tiredness along with time since you last stopped the engine and got out.

Thank you, but has anyone actually had the alarm triggered in anger?

Might have to get one of these. I'll ring the supervisor and say

 

" Car say's i'm Fatigued Won't be into day "

When we test drove a vRS, the salesman said he'd pretended to fall asleep at the wheel and it didn't do anything.

He actually crashed into the back of a car and it still didn't do anything. The airbags worked though.....

That last bit was a joke... tee hee.

Hi everybody

 

Has anyone had the fatigue sensor triggered an alarm yet?  On a couple of occasions when I thought I was too tired and had to stop at the service station for a coffee & rest, I was disappointed the alarm remained silent! I don't know how it works, but it is not working for me! 

 

SS

Don't take this the wrong way, but do you really want your car to tell you when to take a break?

Personally I feel your have done exactly the right thing and recognised your signs of tiredness and taken break when you needed rather than wait for some system to detect that your driving is starting to become eratic.

However, I do know what you mean. I would really like to know if the front assist would really stop me from crashing into the car in front, but I am not going to try and find out just in case it doesn't.

Technology is a wonderful thing, but we must not come to rely on it though.

Don't take this the wrong way, but do you really want your car to tell you when to take a break?

 

 

Have a Break have a :-

 

 

" You need a Kit Kat " " You need a Kit Kat " " You need a Kit Kat " " You need a Kit Kat " " You need a Kit Kat " " 

Front assist does save many crisp packets from committing suicide though

It uses pedal inputs and steering angles to detect possible tiredness along with time since you last stopped the engine and got out.

Nope, just steering behaviour.

Does it work if you've had tooooo muccch toooo drink and tells you to syop.

Have a Break have a :-

 

 

" You need a Kit Kat " " You need a Kit Kat " " You need a Kit Kat " " You need a Kit Kat " " You need a Kit Kat " "

What? The new Android OS?

Don't take this the wrong way, but do you really want your car to tell you when to take a break?

Personally I feel your have done exactly the right thing and recognised your signs of tiredness and taken break when you needed rather than wait for some system to detect that your driving is starting to become eratic.

However, I do know what you mean. I would really like to know if the front assist would really stop me from crashing into the car in front, but I am not going to try and find out just in case it doesn't.

Technology is a wonderful thing, but we must not come to rely on it though.

I can probably conclude that in my case, the trigger level is either set too high or the system is simply not sensitive enough. I would certainly not rely on it but a bit disappointed that it is not great as a back up either; at least not as far as I am concerned.

In principle it's a good bit of tech just seems like it needs a bit of developing.

 

The problem with tech like this is it is there to save lives but just ends up in drivers less safely.

I've really tried to force the warning by driving as if I was really, really tired but it never did go off.

Do remember that it starts the analyzing bit if you go over 65 km/h, so it's mainly for out-of-town driving.

 

@ssfan, maybe this means that even if you felt tired and needed a break, you're still a good enough driver for the system not to trigger! Which is a good thing on your part.

Do remember that it starts the analyzing bit if you go over 65 km/h, so it's mainly for out-of-town driving. At traffic lights and in stop-start traffic, a lot of people take their hands off the wheel for prolonged periods of time anyway so the system would be rather pointless.

 

@ssfan, maybe this means that even if you felt tired and needed a break, you're still a good enough driver for the system not to trigger! Which is a good thing on your part.

Edited 8 November, 201312 yr by TudorM

I've had it trigger a few times over the last 6 months all on journeys of over 2 hours. I've tried to trigger it myself without success.

The trigger activated twice during a 5 hour trip last weekend. It happened after a couple of hours with ACC turned on, which meant I didn't touched the pedals for that period. So far I've found the feature to be utterly useless, it triggers when I don't need it (awake and alert), and fails to trigger when I really should stop and take a break.

BMW drivers have this, Oh wait!

 

No, sorry I'm mistaken.... it's not a Driver Fatigue Sensor, it's a Driver FatEgo Sensor.

Do remember that it starts the analyzing bit if you go over 65 km/h, so it's mainly for out-of-town driving. At traffic lights and in stop-start traffic, a lot of people take their hands off the wheel for prolonged periods of time anyway so the system would be rather pointless.

 

@ssfan, maybe this means that even if you felt tired and needed a break, you're still a good enough driver for the system not to trigger! Which is a good thing on your part.

Yes, the problem is motorway driving when driver input is minimal and cars nowadays are so comfortable, you just drift off to sleep naturally. 

Nope, just steering behaviour.

Must be a different system to that detailed in the Touran manual as I was looking to enable with VCDS.

 

Perhaps there are differing versions across VAG?

I have this system in the 3 mercs at work, switched the system off as it was a pain in the ass.

Must be a different system to that detailed in the Touran manual as I was looking to enable with VCDS.

Perhaps there are differing versions across VAG?

In the octavia manual and brochure it only mentions steering behaviour....