At last - after 18 months - the latest software updates seem to have fixed the major problem with ACC - the way it would often refuse to pass a slower vehicle in a lane to my left.  Hooray!!!

 

So, now it's working, I tested it for almost the whole of a 400 mile round trip on motorways last weekend and I noticed something that seems less than ideal and could surely be easily fixed with - dare I say it - another software update.

 

If you're behind another car that is going slower than the speed you've set on the cruise control then of course your car keeps to their speed until they move out of the lane.  This is correct behaviour but what is slightly frustrating is that it won't speed up until the other car is completely out of your lane - even if its wheels are still on the dotted line it waits until that car is fully in its own lane before speeding up.  If I were in control I would start speeding up as soon as I was sure they would be gone any moment;  if they suddenly changed their mind and pulled back out, there'd still be plenty of time to drop back again.

 

This is of course a very minor irritation but the opposite scenario could be more serious.  You're travelling at your chosen speed and then a car pulls into your lane in front of you, too close and going slower than you.  The ACC correctly responds by slowing down and backing off to increase the gap but it only does so once the car in front is fully in your lane.   On several occasions I've had to touch the brakes to manually slow down because I can see a car entering my lane that the ACC hasn't got around to responding to;  if I hadn't done so, I'd have ended up uncomfortably close to that car until ACC eventually responded. 

 

So it seems ACC is programmed to respond to a lane change in front only when it's been fully completed.  In one direction it's mildly frustrating but in the other direction it has the potential to be dangerous.

 

Has anyone else noticed this?

 

 

 

 

I noted the same. 

 

When moving out from my lane, it is easy to just apply more (gas - how it should be called with hybrid  ) pedal. The ACC does not deactivate from this and continues then normally when foot is lifted from pedal. 

 

The other way is a bit worse. When they come in between me and the car in front, the reaction speed is rather slow. The coming car must come on the lane, not almost on the lane. Then Skoda pulls the brakes a bit too hard compared to easier slowing down just rolling or with mild regenerative braking. This causes unwanted traffic pumping. And pressing the brake drops the ACC (which it should do) but I'd rather have Skoda handle it differently without the need to press the brakes. 

Now have to deactivate the ACC and activate again when the joining car is on the lane. 

 

There is a view on the cockpit that shows what skoda sees. It is quite accurate showing the car in front and its location between the lines. It doesn't show (to the driver) the cars on other lanes and it means skoda doesn't react to them. Haven't tried overtaking from "wrong lane" if that is shown or not. 

5 minutes ago, Mrpanu said:

I noted the same. 

 

When moving out from my lane, it is easy to just apply more (gas - how it should be called with hybrid  ) pedal. The ACC does not deactivate from this and continues then normally when foot is lifted from pedal. 

 

The other way is a bit worse. When they come in between me and the car in front, the reaction speed is rather slow. The coming car must come on the lane, not almost on the lane. Then Skoda pulls the brakes a bit too hard compared to easier slowing down just rolling or with mild regenerative braking. This causes unwanted traffic pumping. And pressing the brake drops the ACC (which it should do) but I'd rather have Skoda handle it differently without the need to press the brakes. 

Now have to deactivate the ACC and activate again when the joining car is on the lane. 

 

There is a view on the cockpit that shows what skoda sees. It is quite accurate showing the car in front and its location between the lines. It doesn't show (to the driver) the cars on other lanes and it means skoda doesn't react to them. Haven't tried overtaking from "wrong lane" if that is shown or not. 

With Travel assist activated, it does show you cars in other lanes and responds to them switching lanes accordingly. With only ACC activated it does not.