Question regarding the above. I have read the manual but it isn't clear. 

 

So my hubby has managed to trigger the front assist warning a good few times during motorway driving but the car didn't apply brakes. Should it have or is this warning only at motor way speed? What is the difference between front assist warning and the one with the exclamation in the middle of two cars? 

 

Today the front assist warning displayed followed by what I would describe as a half-hearted attempt to apply brakes but they released. I was driving maybe 18mph tops on a residential road with no car in front or behind, no trees, no shadows etc. 

 

 

Front assist first gives a visual warning followed by loud audible warning and then applies brakes if you don't react in time. 

 

If you do react quickly then you'll only see the visual and maybe hear a little of the  audible warning.

 

My Fabia has only once fully applied the brakes when a van suddenly stopped in front of me.

 

The two car exclamation means you are driving too close to the car in front and need to pull back to a safe distance.

 

Front assist can very occasionally mistake other objects as a danger but I've found it's brief and cancels quickly.

 

Hope that helps.

That must've been what happened today then has I felt the car made a half hearted attempt to stop but as j said there was nothing there to stop for. 

 

Does it work at motorway speed or is it advisory only? 

I highlighted in the manual below. You have to be going between the set speeds detailed below for the the auto braking to fully activate. 

Above those speeds it will only warn you of impending doom but will apply a greater amount of braking force on your behalf if it believes you are still going to crash when you have your foot on the brake while heading towards something

I've only ever had the "too close" warning pop up once so far since having my Kodi a couple of weeks but I think that's probably down to that I use ACC a lot of the time on the motorway at the moment and don't have the warning distance set very far.

 

 

3 hours ago, KKB24 said:

That must've been what happened today then has I felt the car made a half hearted attempt to stop but as j said there was nothing there to stop for. 

 

Does it work at motorway speed or is it advisory only? 

 

It'll dab the brakes to prompt you to brake yourself. If you still fail to react, and the car believes you're about to hit something it'll brake again.

I "tested" front assist when out test driving the kodiaq with the dealer and my wife in the car. she was not impressed. he laughed. the car applied the breaks. 

 

I've also "tested" it on my own scout, alone this time, and it works as described in the manual. it's no excuse not to pay attention to the road though. 

It does seem very sensitive on the motorway. Each time I would not have said we were at risk of collision. 

 

Certainly the one at lower speed I couldn't identify a reason. We have had the car 7 weeks and it has displayed 5 times during motorway driving and once at lower speed. We have 2000 miles on the car so we are receiving warnings approx every 400 miles.

 

It has only prompted braking once at the lower speed. The others the warning went as quick as it appeared. 

 

Robdav that is something my hubby would do lol

It appears slightly oversensitive when on fast curves and beeps irritatingly. Only had one occasion when it has put its foot to the floor and that was when I was reversing into a parking space and it mistook a blade of grass for something important and stopped the car dead.

Front Assist works in reverse?

3 hours ago, silver1011 said:

Front Assist works in reverse?

 

No, but both the parkpilot system and the rear traffic alert do.