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I tend to agree, especially in the situation described in that comment. I have a 2020 Subaru Outback that I believe has a very similar braking system, and while

I tend to agree, especially in the situation described in that comment. I have a 2020 Subaru Outback that I believe has a very similar braking system, and while I have also experienced a small handful of false positives (especially when moving very slowly in a tight parking spot), I think the system is pretty good, and I do feel good about its ability to help at least a little bit if I ever really need it. I’m willing to ignore the false positives when moving very slowly in tight parking spaces. That’s startling and annoying, but doesn’t really bug me too much. I believe you can also turn that off independently of the forward-facing road-speed emergency braking feature (and you need to if you have a trailer or bike rack). As for false positives while at road speed, I think the actual brakes have only kicked in once or twice, and only very briefly (certainly not enough to slow me down so much that it could cause an accident). It’s a bit more common to get a false positive on the first stage of alert, which in my car is an audible alert and some red LEDs on the primitive heads up display.

mint2 4y ago
Anecdotally, I’ve found similar. Never had phantom breaking in my crosstrek. While it’s possible someone’s car could be miss calibrated, I’d guess pebkac is more likely and self reflection of driving habits is needed. The only object warnings I’ve triggered are completely understandable and never had auto braking A sharp turnning off-ramp to a rest stop on i5 with a sign in the middle that one drives directly at before turning has reliable triggered the object warning but never breaking. I suspect that if I went dangerously/stupidly fast in the turn it would brake. The other other time I could reliably trigger it was pulling in faster than usual to park head on 1 ft in front of a fence, and that only ever did the warning not braking. So far, and it’s anecdotal yes, I’ve never had it happen when actually on the road. What I do find annoying is the cruise control starts to floor it when changing lanes if it sees the clear path down the lane line during the change.
- tshaddox 4y ago
  My experience is largely the same as yours. I've had the alert (no braking) several times on the highway during sharp corners or when coming up on slower traffic (when I've been totally aware, but probably coming in hotter than I oughta be). I've also had it trigger twice when entering my apartment building's parking garage. It has a very steep uphill ramp and a couple of times I must have approached it fast enough that it thinks I'm running at a wall. I also agree with the cruise control issue. The adaptive cruise control is very nice for highway traffic that's changing speeds a lot, except that I'll forget that it's set at 65-70 after cruising around 50 for a while, and then when it finds a clear lane it will try to accelerate very quickly. That's ultimately just a limitation in how far ahead the system looks to find cars.

mint2 4y ago

Anecdotally, I’ve found similar. Never had phantom breaking in my crosstrek. While it’s possible someone’s car could be miss calibrated, I’d guess pebkac is more likely and self reflection of driving habits is needed. The only object warnings I’ve triggered are completely understandable and never had auto braking A sharp turnning off-ramp to a rest stop on i5 with a sign in the middle that one drives directly at before turning has reliable triggered the object warning but never breaking. I suspect that if I went dangerously/stupidly fast in the turn it would brake. The other other time I could reliably trigger it was pulling in faster than usual to park head on 1 ft in front of a fence, and that only ever did the warning not braking. So far, and it’s anecdotal yes, I’ve never had it happen when actually on the road. What I do find annoying is the cruise control starts to floor it when changing lanes if it sees the clear path down the lane line during the change.

tshaddox 4y ago
My experience is largely the same as yours. I've had the alert (no braking) several times on the highway during sharp corners or when coming up on slower traffic (when I've been totally aware, but probably coming in hotter than I oughta be). I've also had it trigger twice when entering my apartment building's parking garage. It has a very steep uphill ramp and a couple of times I must have approached it fast enough that it thinks I'm running at a wall. I also agree with the cruise control issue. The adaptive cruise control is very nice for highway traffic that's changing speeds a lot, except that I'll forget that it's set at 65-70 after cruising around 50 for a while, and then when it finds a clear lane it will try to accelerate very quickly. That's ultimately just a limitation in how far ahead the system looks to find cars.