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Offline matchboy

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Red Warning Light!
« on: 03 October 2013, 10:22 »
Sorry for being thick, but today after about 2 mins of driving I got a warning light flash up in the MFD with a beep - it was the car in red, with red lines either side of it.  Now this sounds like Lane Assist to me but I didn't spec it!  I was going down a wide road that could be considered as two lanes but there's no road markings so I'm not sure the computer would think it was 2 lanes.  Anyone seen this before?!
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Re: Red Warning Light!
« Reply #1 on: 03 October 2013, 10:35 »
Was it same as this:
http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=260034.0

If so its the city braking function.
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Re: Red Warning Light!
« Reply #2 on: 03 October 2013, 10:38 »
No, it wasn't that Bear!  It was two red lines (like a triangle but without the bottom line) with a red car from an overview position - never seen it before, on any car!

Edit: Sorry, ignore me Bear I didn't look at the youtube video - it was indeed that!  Phew!

Feel free to delete this thread Jimble as its a double post - sorry!!
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Re: Red Warning Light!
« Reply #3 on: 03 October 2013, 10:42 »
What triggered it?  Was it someone cutting in front of you?  Seems to set it off.

I really wish the beemer had came with a radar thingy (for adaptive cruise more than city braking, but both are good).
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Re: Red Warning Light!
« Reply #4 on: 03 October 2013, 11:03 »
I've had it come on a few times when the car that's in front of me slows down to turn left, and the car's decided I haven't braked hard enough and therefore got too close to his rear end (which to be honest, wasn't that close), and warned me by that red screen. A quick tap of the OK button on the MFSW, clears it.
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Re: Red Warning Light!
« Reply #5 on: 03 October 2013, 11:16 »
I don't know what caused it - cause there wasn't anything in front of me I didn't think - which is why I didn't think it was the emergency break system.  Thinking about it, maybe its as I came up to the junction, cars swing past to the right quite close, so maybe it was that that triggered it.  Very clever I have to say - although did it brake for me?  Who knows - I was half asleep to be honest  :laugh:
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Re: Red Warning Light!
« Reply #6 on: 03 October 2013, 11:41 »
Will it slam on the brakes like it shows in the video if you don't press the OK button?
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Re: Red Warning Light!
« Reply #7 on: 03 October 2013, 11:48 »
Don't know, who's going to be a guinea pig and try it  :evil: :evil:

We could do with those polystyrene blocks so that we can test it safely and if it doesn't brake in time, it doesn't damage the car  :grin:
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Re: Red Warning Light!
« Reply #8 on: 03 October 2013, 11:53 »
Yeah  :laugh:
On one hand I can see that being a great feature but on the other I can imagine it causing more problems than its worth.
I'm thinking someone pulling in front of you on the motorway and the car slamming on the brakes at 70mph!!  Yikes.

I get it all the time at a certain slip way, drivers going from the fast lane right across 3 lanes to get off the motorway
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Re: Red Warning Light!
« Reply #9 on: 03 October 2013, 11:56 »
Quote from: p3asa on 03 October 2013, 11:53
Yeah  :laugh:
On one hand I can see that being a great feature but on the other I can imagine it causing more problems than its worth.
I'm thinking someone pulling in front of you on the motorway and the car slamming on the brakes at 70mph!!  Yikes.

I get it all the time at a certain slip way, drivers going from the fast lane right across 3 lanes to get off the motorway

I think it only works at speeds less than 18mph -> http://www.volkswagen.co.uk/technology/braking-and-stability-systems/city-emergency-braking
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