Unexpected hard emergency brake

[Mainsy]

Had a strange one today, as I was pulling into Villa park car park today after being flashed in by a car coming in the other direction, I started to turn into the entrance and my car slammed on the brakes for no reason. I shit myself, reset and carried on. Has anyone else had this. It wasn’t just unexpected it was dangerous.!!

 

[siteguru]

It was trying to warn you that you were making a life choice error.

 

[Mainsy]

It was trying to warn you that you were making a life choice error.

sadly I made that choice 50 years ago bud

 

[tsedge]

Had a strange one today, as I was pulling into Villa park car park today after being flashed in by a car coming in the other direction, I started to turn into the entrance and my car slammed on the brakes for no reason. I shit myself, reset and carried on. Has anyone else had this. It wasn’t just unexpected it was dangerous.!!

False positives with Automatic Emergency Braking are fairly common. You can change the sensitivity to Low and you can switch off the ability for the car to apply the brakes - which is what I do - so you still get a warning but you decide how to handle it.

Software updates may improve it, reducing false positives.

 

[Rolfe]

There are several threads about this. Some people seem to get this relatively frequently, others almost never. I still think it's something to do with calibration, perhaps of cameras.

 

[Surfdog]

Turn off ACC which seems to turn off radar and prevent these dangerous emergency stops. Haven't had one for 18 months now. I only turn on ACC now when I'll need it, such as long motorway journeys in quiet traffic, which is rare. I've previously posted dashcam footage of bad stop I had when my speed was 15mph and a car passing in opposing lane activated the emergency stop, even though we were both well away from each other in middle of lanes, all be it turning a slight bend. I sent footage to MG UK who wrote back confirming the opposing car caused incident, even though there was no imminent collision and both my car and the other car were being driven in the normal expected safe manner!!! I've kept their reply in case I should need it in the future.