I Might have raised this on here before, not sure.  Having terrible problems with the emergency braking on the car - our road is on a gentle bend and coming along home the car suddenly brakes violently and the red emergency light flashes up.  There is nothing else in the road except for a few parked cars - not going fast or particularly near the parked cars. Wonder if anyone else has had similar problems - I mentioned it to the local dealeer whose response was 'it is quite sensitive...'  -  Service due in five or six weeks and will get them to look at then but he didn't sound particularly hopeful on the phone. 

4 hours ago, ARTURO-B said:

Having terrible problems with the emergency braking on the car

Issues with "front randomly slam the brakes on hard" seem to be quite common. Main stealers who can actually do anything about it aren't.

Edited 28 January, 20224 yr by KenONeill

I’ve experienced this a couple times and on each occasion it has been when I haven’t been providing any direct input. The first, and most obvious, occasion was when trundling along a dead straight road at 30mph with the ACC engaged approaching a parked car on my side, but with another car parked just short of it on the other side of the road. In effect I had a slalom gate to go through, perfectly OK at 30mph in my mind but the car obviously thought I was going to drive into the one parked on my side.

 

It could be that your car is seeing a parked car in a similar way. Perhaps try tweaking the steering a little, or lift the throttle a touch just before the car thanks you’re in range. If the car detects you’re doing something then it might realise you’re in control and let you get on with it.

thanks  glad to see it is not just my vehicle -- I hope Skoda themselves see the input from people and try to make it less 'sensitive' as the dealer mentioned  

2 hours ago, sneal said:

when I haven’t been providing any direct input.

You mean, when you were "trying" to drive in a straight line?

12 minutes ago, KenONeill said:

You mean, when you were "trying" to drive in a straight line?

Absolutely.

Driving in a straight line, steady speed (ACC assisted) - but [seemingly] heading straight towards a parked car! I can understand the simple logic of the car - but that, I think, is the issue all [semi-]autonomous vehicles will face. Simple logic doesn’t work in the real world, which is way to nuanced.

Assuming this is the same system utilised by Audi, I had a main dealer turn down the sensitivity to the lowest setting which greatly reduced the frequency of false emergency braking