I have had the same warning flash up 3 times in about a week recently, tried looking in the owners handbook and there is not a single mention of it in there, very useful indeed. In every case I already had the situation well under control so I have no idea just what the system was thinking at the time, I was almost stationary when it flashed up and I had a good couple of car lengths gap between me and the car in front? I also had lately the rear assist zones light up, but the car behind was a distance behind me. So does that also operate on the rate of their approach and give a warning if it thinks that a collision might occur?

 

I just found this video online which explains the front assist and many others as well.

 

Škoda Kamiq - Videos (skoda-auto.com)

Edited 3 July, 20232 yr by Graham Butcher

Hi Graham. My Octavia 2019 describes this, and has a (non-color) picture of the red warning symbol, in the section "Warning and automatic braking".

Three years ago, it continues to occasionally give this warning when the human eye knows that there's absolutely nothing there. It's just a flawed detection algorithm and/or inadequate sensor hardware.

At speed (over 60km/hr I believe) my car has never automatically braked for this; it will brake in Adaptive Cruise Control mode, including if someone abruptly switches lanes in front of me at lower speed, or slows down significantly e.g. to move into an exit lane - but while my car will slow down (sometimes a bit hard) in those cases, it has never triggered the red screechy "¡you're about to hit something!" warning; those have overwhelmingly been false positives (with no auto-braking), with a very few times when I really was approaching something (but already slowing without having to press the brake any harder than I already was - the car is a nervous Nelly at times); only once I actually wasn't paying adequate attention and came up too quickly on a slowed/stopped car in front of me and my car applied the brakes for me (but, I don't think that I got the red "you're gonna crash!" warning). So, it makes little sense, and it should be a lot better than it is.