KeithPleas
Well-Known Member
- First Name
- Keith
- Joined
- Mar 9, 2019
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- 14
- Messages
- 336
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- 557
- Location
- Mercer Island
- Vehicles
- Lexus GX, Porsche Boxster
I don't use D+ (or adaptive cruise control) very much but I feel that - over time - it has gotten better.
That said, coming over Snoqualmie Pass yesterday there was snow/slush and I got a brief warning for radar sensors that showed locations to be cleaned - then it disappeared. I _think_ there was a new red icon on the...tray?...but I haven't seen a way to bring that graphic warning back - they just sit there and make you go "hmm". Eventually the snow/slush disappeared and D+ was back.
I don't trust D+ enough to use it in snow/slush even if it were operable. But the entire alerting mechanism is poor. I had another event a couple of weeks ago...left home with a heavy coat, decided to remove my coat, put on D+, unbuckled belt...keeping a hand on the wheel...and the system went nutzoid. FFS, removing a coat seems like a good use case for D+ but...no. Couldn't even engage ACC. Said I had to have the vehicle serviced. Went on for a couple of hours. Stopped for lunch and...on resuming it was back to normal. Truly shitty experience overall.
That said, coming over Snoqualmie Pass yesterday there was snow/slush and I got a brief warning for radar sensors that showed locations to be cleaned - then it disappeared. I _think_ there was a new red icon on the...tray?...but I haven't seen a way to bring that graphic warning back - they just sit there and make you go "hmm". Eventually the snow/slush disappeared and D+ was back.
I don't trust D+ enough to use it in snow/slush even if it were operable. But the entire alerting mechanism is poor. I had another event a couple of weeks ago...left home with a heavy coat, decided to remove my coat, put on D+, unbuckled belt...keeping a hand on the wheel...and the system went nutzoid. FFS, removing a coat seems like a good use case for D+ but...no. Couldn't even engage ACC. Said I had to have the vehicle serviced. Went on for a couple of hours. Stopped for lunch and...on resuming it was back to normal. Truly shitty experience overall.
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