Pedestrian detection system
Collected my V40 this afternoon.
Driving home the pedestrian detection system scared the bejesus out of me. Lol. Thing is. There was no one in front of me. There were pedestrians at the side of the road on the pavement. Is this a sensitivity issue? Can it be adjusted? Very nice car tho. The interior is a class above my 2010 Skoda Octavia. |
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I don't think so. Need to read the owners manual. Lol The collision detection light which projects onto the windscreen is annoying also. Need to look into that too. Lol. All for a good cause though. Safety. |
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Still trying to understand it all. Lol It's an approved used Volvo, so any updates should have been done I would hope. |
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It's not just pedestrians it looks for , its animals and children and cars too and maybe a bird was flying towards the car ? etc . See if you can reproduce it under similar conditions or in the same place ... |
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Will see how it goes. Been out today and had nothing. Just the red collision detection warning regards a car in front, which I was still some way from. I believe this could be a setting I have somehow triggered though. I pressed the button on the center console to disable for now til I understand better. |
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you could have been driving towards the car in front and the gap was closing too quickly ... what do you think ? |
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Lol |
I think the full safety package onyl comes if the car has Intellisafe Pro which was a £1900 option. Does your car have that option?
SWMBO has a my17 without that option so only has the baisc city safety function which is a collison warning system that works up to about 30mph. That triggers occasionally with a beep and flashin red symbol in the heads up area of the screen. It is usually when a car is parked off the road on the nearside and you approach on a bend so it thinks the vehicle is in front of you. There are couple of places where it happens to her regularly. The bend straightens ourt though as so the brakes are not applied. There is a delay in the system to aloow youy to brake first, it triggers if you dont brake in time. First time it happened to both of us it scared the daylights. Hope that helps |
I had the same thing on my V40 when I bought it - red flashing warning when you were well clear of pedestrians or cyclists at low speed on a narrow road.
There is a setting you can change for detection range - normal, long or short. After several false alerts I changed mine to short & have only had one false alert when passing clear of a car that was stopping on a roundabout. I think the software tries to predict what could happen rather than the actual situation. Mine is an early 2014 model so could still be using older software. |
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I have found the distance setting and adjusted it to short, not had anything happen since. I think it was probably set to longer and i have just happened to get "too close" to the car in front for the longer distance it was set at. Seems ok now. |
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I had my software updated at the main dealers at the last service and it has improved - I now have it set to normal distance.
The software (also in new loan cars I've had) doesn't like cars/cyclists off the side of the road to your left parked or on a cycle lane but facing you though - I've had a few false alarms from that, it probably thinks they are overtaking and coming head on! |
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