Have a fair amount of confusion about what I have in terms of Lane guidance / travel assist.

 

I've paid for travel assist on my 2024 (pre FL) VRS. I've got the two buttons on the steering wheel (assistance systems, and what I believe is travel assist). When I picked it up, the dealer said something about the 2nd button not doing anything and that it was used on the facelift. This appears to be wrong - the button does do something (the lines come up in the bottom of the dash, it toggles between "travel assist" and ACC.

 

Oddly, in OBDEleven / Carista, it shows Adapative lane assist as disabled. The intervention doesn't really seem to do much either.

 

If I have travel assist, do I have adaptive lane assist? Is the non-activation in OBDEleven a red herring?

Leave Lane Assist off. It's a pain in the backside.

Is it just the Skoda implementation? Seemed fine in my Audi (which is presumably similar) and Volvo with PilotAssist

I've had it on two RSs now and it has been a pain in the backside on both. Whether it's Skoda's version of it I don't know, but IMHO it's best left deactivated.

 

An example of why I think so is because the other day I was driving to Godalming and it picked up something gawd knows what and threw the car towards a traffic island, I just deactivated it after that, and even though it's deactivated on the infotainment system. It still activates it when the car restarts, which it should NOT do!

First things I do when I get in mine …… start stop off , lane assist off . Bothe a pain and dangerous in my opinion 

Getting back to your question, yes if you have Travel Assist you should have Adaptive Lane Assist

 

https://www.skoda.ie/models/octavia/octavia-old/octavia-travel-assist#page-not-found-sites/enie-v2-9a5ab887-4b7c-4632-92db-7f8598170030

 

 

Wait until you are doing 70 on the motorway and the traffic recognition sees a sign in the coned off roadworks area of 10mph - #ankerson

I have Travel Assist on mine.  A pull of the lower stalk on the left of the wheel engages Adaptive Cruise Control and a then push of the button on the wheel activates Travel Assist. 

 

I can confirm that with Travel Assist fully activated the car will steer itself - hence, adapative lane assist or guidance or whatever you want to call it.   It is part of Travel Assist. 

 

I find it helpful on the motorway for sure. 

 

Edited 5 September, 20241 yr by Pete

Many thanks all. Is there any other real benefit to the travel assist? The documentation seems to talk cross purpose with other standard options. 

I don't have any of the travel travel assist features, so can't help you with this.

6 hours ago, Pete said:

 

I find it helpful on the motorway for sure.

The nearest motorway to Norwich is the M11, and that's 60 miles as the crow flies.

8 hours ago, bdavbdav said:

Many thanks all. Is there any other real benefit to the travel assist? The documentation seems to talk cross purpose with other standard options. 

 

There's never a shortage of opinions on 'Assist' systems, undoubtedly well meant for the most part. Since you've paid extra to have Travel Assist, it's worth taking the time to try out the different elements of it for yourself. Determining the benefits is a subjective exercise, after trialling it you'll soon decide what works for you and in which environments. 

8 hours ago, SouthernComfort said:

 

There's never a shortage of opinions on 'Assist' systems, undoubtedly well meant for the most part. Since you've paid extra to have Travel Assist, it's worth taking the time to try out the different elements of it for yourself. Determining the benefits is a subjective exercise, after trialling it you'll soon decide what works for you and in which environments. 

Totally agree - the bit I’m stuck on (which I guess doesn’t actually make that much difference), is apart from the advanced lane assist, what difference the travel assist makes over the stock for the VRS? They don’t make it particularly obvious!

1 hour ago, bdavbdav said:

what difference the travel assist makes

Travel Assist keeps your car between lines and keeps distance to the car in front. It does not only kick in to correct your heading only when you are about to cross the line, it actually steers car, so basically driving becomes hands-free.

As someone regularly doing long trips across Europe, I find this stuff to be very useful. 1000+km in one day and don't feel tired, only butt hurts a bit after sitting for long time.

19 minutes ago, Edela said:

Travel Assist keeps your car between lines and keeps distance to the car in front. It does not only kick in to correct your heading only when you are about to cross the line, it actually steers car, so basically driving becomes hands-free.

As someone regularly doing long trips across Europe, I find this stuff to be very useful. 1000+km in one day and don't feel tired, only butt hurts a bit after sitting for long time.

Wow so its a pretty expensive option (£450) given its intervention seems quite light, doesn't do the lane change without the auto parking, and the ACC was already there by standard in the VRS!

1 hour ago, bdavbdav said:

doesn't do the lane change

Tbh I never understood what's the point in lane change. I'd rather do it myself.

On 05/09/2024 at 21:42, Paws4Thot said:

The nearest motorway to Norwich is the M11, and that's 60 miles as the crow flies.

Yes, the M11 along with others.  I have to travel a lot for work.  And of course, the A11.

On 05/09/2024 at 16:12, bdavbdav said:

Many thanks all. Is there any other real benefit to the travel assist? The documentation seems to talk cross purpose with other standard options. 

It’s somewhat like a semiautonomous driving system.  It will steer, slow down, accelerate etc.  It also has traffic assist, and when activated and stuck in traffic, it stops, starts and moves the car without input from the driver along with the traffic.   I find this helpful when stuck in traffic.  
 

If you use it in town or cities, it can get confused with multiple lines on the road in places.  Zig zag lines have caused the car to rapidly steer left and right 🤦🏼 which was disconcerting the first time I experienced it. 
 

 

Edited 7 September, 20241 yr by Pete

Travel assist / lane assist works OK in my opinion and I tend to leave it on. However, when you start driving 'country lanes', it constantly complains about driving in the middle of the road! Gets switched off when on narrow roads. 

It is doing nothing under 37 mph. 

& then some cars are just set with not much sensitivity / nudging.

7 hours ago, Ootohere said:

It is doing nothing under 37 mph. 

& then some cars are just set with not much sensitivity / nudging.

That's the conclusion I came to some time ago about lane assist. Having read claims from some owners that the wheel is 'wrenched' or 'pulled' from their control, I felt mine must be different. At most, I feel a fairly gentle nudge. That's it. Enough to be an alert, not a take over. So maybe the calibration varies by car / model / year, or just randomly - who knows?

I've only just picked up my 2020 Octavia on Sunday, and have a question regards lane assist...

 

The bit on the digital display, where it displays the lane, sometimes there's a car in the lane on my display and other times there's not. Does that represent a car ahead or something? 

 

Another thing is on the way home with my car on its first ride, turn assist or something kicked in on a tight turn, but hasn't since. Does that only work in certain circumstances? 

 

Apologies if the answers to these seem obvious, just trying to get to grips with all of the tech, my previous car to this was a 2014 reg so a lot of it is brand new to me...

36 minutes ago, scotthugh3s said:

Does that represent a car ahead or something?

Yes. If it is dark, it just indicates that your car sees the one in front. If it is white, it means your adaptive cruise control is locked on that car.

 

37 minutes ago, scotthugh3s said:

Does that only work in certain circumstances? 

When speed is too high it will apply brakes to slow you down in a curve.

48 minutes ago, Edela said:

Yes. If it is dark, it just indicates that your car sees the one in front. If it is white, it means your adaptive cruise control is locked on that car.

 

When speed is too high it will apply brakes to slow you down in a curve.

It applied the brakes but it also assisted me through the turn, I felt it take the steering wheel...

51 minutes ago, scotthugh3s said:

It applied the brakes but it also assisted me through the turn, I felt it take the steering wheel...

I mean, if road prediction is turned on in the settings (which it is by default), Travel Assist will just drive for you - steering, slowing down in front of curves, changing speed according to speed limits, etc. It just does not work too great so I don't use it, but in principle it can be done. If all these things are off, it will just hold the car between the lines, and if speed is too high, it will apply brakes a bit. Though if you have no Travel Assist but only standard Lane Assist, it will intervene only when you come close to the line or road side, then you will feel a nudge on the steering wheel and on the indication the line will turn yellow. That is just a safety feature (which on this forum you must hate).

Edited 21 October, 20241 yr by Edela