Has anyone got City safe on their cars? I've ordered mine with it but looking through the manual I'm worried about getting a false triggers. Anyone have any experience of it.

My thought were if it prevents one shunt in traffic or pulling away at a busy roundabout (not that I've had one) then it's paid for itself. But if it's going to be annoying then I will get it removed from my order.

I would cancel it unless it can be overridden [emoji6]

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You can turn it off apparently.

You can turn it off apparently.

Likely doable through VCDS

I would trust my own judgment and not a car/computer [emoji6]

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There is an off button.

Its a perfectly reliable safety system. a simple button turns it off for snow.

City safe is standard equipment here in Finland, so I've had it for year and half now. It's not annoying at all. It doesn't need any attention, you never have to turn it off. It turns off by itself for snow, and tells it in instrument cluster if it done so. When snow and ice is removed from windscreen, city safe turns itself on again.

Safety feature which is unnoticeable until you really need it. Can you ask for more?

 

Ah thanks. Does it work on pedestrians?

This is something I expect to become mandatory on all new cars in the not too distant future. Given it only works at low speeds, it doesn't have the same terrifying risks of locking up the wheels on the motorway because a crisp packet flew in front of you.

Sorry, I don't know, and luckily I haven't tried.  

Good to know things are that it monitors (with laser, wow) about 10 meters in front of a car. And it works at speed from 5 to 30 km/h. So it doesn't make driver useless yet, but it helps.

I have it on my May 2013 Elegance and it has never once given any "false triggers"...the "off" button is down by the gear lever but I have never once thought about using it to turn the system off.

I'll leave the option on then. Thanks for the feedback.

Ah thanks. Does it work on pedestrians?

I thought that the main point of these systems was to protect pedestrians in the event of a child running out from behind a parked car for example in addition to stopping you bumping in to the car in front in slow traffic.

at 20mph (max speed) it will not stop the car in time, but speed will have been reduced so that damage is minimised

 

it will stall the car by design if it triggers as well

 

we have it on swmbo's car, never played with it and never triggered

As I understand it if a car in front stops suddenly it will apply your brakes quicker than you can? If this is the case what happens to the tailgater behind you?

 

Fred

As I understand it if a car in front stops suddenly it will apply your brakes quicker than you can? If this is the case what happens to the tailgater behind you?

 

Fred

 

The you'll most likely get rear ended -the same as would happen if you slammed the brakes on yourself, unfortunately there's no system in the world that can control other people's cars/driving habits -at least not yet.

As I understand it if a car in front stops suddenly it will apply your brakes quicker than you can? If this is the case what happens to the tailgater behind you?

Fred

Like said you get rear ended and claim for whiplash lol. It only works under 20mph on the citigo so designed for town and city issues really.

I have it - it has never activated, and in my feeble attempts to "test" it, my nerve has always failed before the system kicked in. It is not continually dabbing the brakes for you in slow moving traffic or anything like that. 

 

The manual details the circumstances when you should turn it off. Fog was one I think, I forget the others.

 

I look upon it like I do my seatbelt. Nice to have but hope I never need it. 

 

One minor disappointment - although it is controlled by a laser, you don't drive around with a Terminator-like red eye glaring out through the windscreen, sadly...

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Ah thanks. Does it work on pedestrians?

yes it does, here are a few vids of us trying to run over tigger on our citigo....

 

 

 

and my feet to prove its the lasers doing it

 

 

it was quite amusing actually, we posted them to skoda, skoda (world) liked it, skoda UK said "while we like the fact that you are enjoying your citigo, we would advise not trying out citisafe on your frends..... lol...

 

(we did try it with a jumper held accross before we drove at tigger! lol)

Yes I think straight on it will work, I was thinking more if someone walked out in front from thr side.

 

 

Yes I think straight on it will work, I was thinking more if someone walked out in front from thr side.

 

it WAS designed for recognising the back of another car, not pedestrians.... but clearly  ( as per my vids) if the target is visib;e it will stop.