Up here in Glasgow its been really bad weather , flooding etc. So yesterday came along a road , seen the cars back up due to a big puddle with cars stuck in it. So tried a 3 pointer and while reversing into brush it felt like i had hit something as the car stopped V abruptly like hitting the kerb or reversing into a solid object. I thought F ive smashed the rear bumper. I stopped checked and no damage. Did the car automatically brake for me ? That's the only thing i can think of . If so well done Skoda , you may have got something right with beta software.

22 minutes ago, Greezy56 said:

came along a road , seen the cars back up due to a big puddle with cars stuck in it.

Which road? I saw Great Western Road (A82(T)) in Knightswood, almost every junction down Lincoln Avenue and Queen Victoria Drive to Dumbarton Road (A814), Dumbarton Road itself just West of Kilbowie Road, Kilbowie Road somewhere between Dumbarton Road and Montrose Street, and a couple of places on Argyll Road in Clydebank on Saturday, but once I'd got past those no further problems out to Dumbarton.

Over at the QEUH hospital road leading up to NHS 24 at fifty pitches and onto clydeside express

7 hours ago, Greezy56 said:

Up here in Glasgow its been really bad weather , flooding etc. So yesterday came along a road , seen the cars back up due to a big puddle with cars stuck in it. So tried a 3 pointer and while reversing into brush it felt like i had hit something as the car stopped V abruptly like hitting the kerb or reversing into a solid object. I thought F ive smashed the rear bumper. I stopped checked and no damage. Did the car automatically brake for me ? That's the only thing i can think of . If so well done Skoda , you may have got something right with beta software.

I think it does have a collision avoidance in reverse. A week or two back I was reversing into a parking bay in the countryside up to bushes/nettles; as you describe the stopped abruptly as though I’d hit a kerb or rock - but not by there except aforementioned bushes.

 

I recall reading something about the system designed to protect pedestrians when reversing but can’t remember what it was called or where I read it 🙄

 

Edited 10 August, 20214 yr by sneal

Yeah this is the collision avoidance system. Very useful when reversing out of a tight parking space with zero visibility.

Sounds like autonomous braking. I had this happen when a pedestrian walked behind my car when reversing into a car park space.

Hi, in sweden its called "manouvre assist" and working only when in reverse. There is some vague info here that it is combined with side assist, but not sure.
First time it happened to me it scared the sh..t out of me I was certain that i hit a solid object.
Now when used to it I know that there is a different warning signal (longer with a different lower tone) than parking sensors and  to avoid autobrake, I do the braking myself when I hear it.

This is with regards my Superb but it's the same system...

 

Reversing slowly off my driveway last week, a woman walked past on the pavement on the opposite side of the road when I was only about half a metre into the road, the Superb immediately brought me to a halt.

 

I thought that was fantastic, a very safety-conscious feature given the amount of kids that zip up and down the street on their bikes.

 

p.s. you can disable the brake feature once via the touchscreen. It comes back on next time you put it in reverse.

9 hours ago, Greezy56 said:

Over at the QEUH hospital road leading up to NHS 24 at fifty pitches and onto clydeside express

Cheers; I'm acquiring an idea just how bad this was on Saturday.

Just done this in mine. Thought I'd hit a low kerb but nothing there at all. So much relief when there was no damage

The car has collision avoidance for all the places where the parking sensores are mounted. 

basically it is going to break each time you are close to hitting an object. Even if it’s sideways, even front, even back. 

 

The thing that I dont like at all is the clearing - if the obstacle dissapeara from your left/right area, the sensors will still read the object for a couple of seconds, or even more. Which is a lot and prone to an auto-brake when you are not expecting. 

As described by the OP, it happened to me too. The first time this collision avoidance kicked in, was as I was squeezing / reversing slowly into a tight parking space. 
The car broke so suddenly, I thought I hit the vehicle behind me, so I got off to check the damage - although I was barely at crawling speed. I still had a few (2-4) cm? left between my bumper and the car behind.
 

From my experience it activates when moving very slowly, like during a parking manoeuvre.
Front sensors work too - once the car stopped dead in its tracks while I was trying to park too close to some innocent soft bushes - but the foliage was obviously detected as an obstacle. 

Is there any way to disable the collision avoidance system, just on the back parking sensors ? i want to keep the front assist system on, but the back one has been causing me some problems. When i was reversing from a parking space on a tight street, the sensors kept seeing the curb behind me and forcing me to stop, requiring i do some more maneuvers.

As others have said it'snormal behaviour for this system.

 

I've had it actuate a couple of times reversing into my garage, there's a small lip in the concrete a couple  centimetres high that occasionally triggers it - the first time it happened  **** myself thinking I'd hit something as it's quite abrupt! Doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to it though, 90% of the time nothing happens but on those odd occasions it does do it it is quite unnerving.

11 hours ago, DituEmi said:

Is there any way to disable the collision avoidance system, just on the back parking sensors ? i want to keep the front assist system on, but the back one has been causing me some problems. When i was reversing from a parking space on a tight street, the sensors kept seeing the curb behind me and forcing me to stop, requiring i do some more maneuvers.

Manoeuvre braking is only for low speed parking manoeuvres, and it uses the parking sensors. If you disable it, it will disable both front and rear auto braking. However, it is not related to front assist (AEB), as it is a different system.

 

If you dont want to disable it, I think it will not intervene by braking if you are moving very slowly.

It sure is frightening, feels more like hitting a brick wall. I've had it happen maybe twice when reverse parking close up to bushes. I wouldn't want it disabled though, one day it may just pick up something or someone that my mirrors or camera fail to detect in time.

This feature gets activated at least once a week for me when I do my daily reversing down a steep and winding driveway at home. It senses the ground as an obstacle when the gradient changes and brakes for me, not all the time but often enough. I am so used to it now I just live with it.

It's the "Manoeuvre Assist" which kicks in with the parking sensors. I think it's something they made a point of saying the car had when they removed the Park Assist as standard kit on the likes of the vRS when the COVID chip shortages were about to sort of make up for losing the Park Assist feature.

 

"Used it" myself whilst on holiday last month reversing into a space the lad was gobbing off about something and got slightly distracted and thought i'd hit a post that was behind me and was resigned to getting out of the car and seeing a big dint in the bumper only to realise there was nothing there. It was only then I realised there hadn't been a bang and just a sudden complete stop.

Edited 14 September, 20241 yr by WaveyDavey