I can’t work out how the Front Assist assesses the road ahead. There doesn’t seam to be any pattern to its behavior. I have approached the rear of hundreds of cars at various speeds and got close enough to expect at least a warning if not an intervention and got nothing 99% of the time, I get no warning when passing very close to parked cars (not that I want it to) yet got a warning when a pedestrian walk out in front of me (but she was not as close as when I pass parked cars). It will occasionally give a warning signal when there’s nothing in front of me, yet when I try to activate it by driving head on towards a stationary vehicle, I get nothing, not that I am brave or stupid enough to get too close. And as for oncoming traffic how does it know not to go off even why passing on a narrow road. Any ideas?

 

I have only had it activate once with brakes applied and a couple of times with warnings on the dash. Each time was following other traffic which braked suddenly without warning. It seems to work well but don't ask me how it knows not to give false warnings.

The front assist only applies the brakes at the last minute to avoid a collision. Believe me if it does deploy you will certainly know about it, imagine an emergency stop x10.

The one situation that will often trigger front assist falsely, is when the car in front of you turns off left into a side road perpendicular to your direction of travel. If you are too close, it will apply all anchors, which may be brief, but will be certain to give you a brown pants moment.

 

I've no idea of it checks the rear end of your car before it slams the brakes on, ABS going crazy, or the car too close behind you simply smashes into you.

 

I was warned about this on my test drive, the experienced salesman knew his stuff.

 

Yes the system also checks the rear, While backing uphill along  an unfamiliar narrow lane the brakes suddenly slammed on as I had not noticed a rock sticking out low down. It prevented a smashed rear end.

 

Not a fan of all these bells and whistles as there is so much more to fail. I usually keep moderns for 10 years but not so sure with the Karoq with all the auto bits.

 

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3 minutes ago, Karock said:

Yes the system also checks the rear, While backing uphill along  an unfamiliar narrow lane the brakes suddenly slammed on as I had not noticed a rock sticking out low down. It prevented a smashed rear end.

 

Not a fan of all these bells and whistles as there is so much more to fail. I usually keep moderns for 10 years but not so sure with the Karoq with all the auto bits.

 

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That is manoeuvre braking, that works of the parking sensors, nothing to do with front assist.

Edited 1 June, 20215 yr by Kenny R

Whatever it is called it certainly stopped me hitting the rock.

The sensitivity of Front assist can be set in the Menus.

The handbook states that ESC has to be operative for these things to work.

On 01/06/2021 at 18:06, Karock said:

While backing uphill along  an unfamiliar narrow lane the brakes suddenly slammed on as I had not noticed a rock sticking out low down.

Yes I have had similar, when doing a 3 point turn in a country lane. The damn things went off because of long grass, I wondered what the hell had happened, apart from the violent loss off speed the noise was something as well.