StellarRat
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I'm somewhat thinking that this problem could be taken care of with a future software update as well as the cross traffic backup warning. It seems possible to me.
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Odd you found them “gimmicky”. I could always see them lit-up in my periphery and rarely ever had to take my eyes from the road in front of me. Saved my butt numerous times!I've always found them to be useless gimmicks. Maybe it is just my eyes' natural focal length but I found trying to pay attention to them took away from actually using the mirrors. Mind you I'm a very active shoulder-checker and actively use mirrors to be aware of every thing in my circle, so have never had an issue with missing things in "blind spots". What really brought home how much I move around is when I started racing and thus having the seatbelt set very tight in a constraining way I got a little panicked at first about how little I could move to fully check my 7 and 8.
This means, ironically, that the Model 3 has effectively a lot better "blindspot detection" back-up for me than any other car I've owned as it is audio based so alerts me wherever my eyes happen to be at the moment. Not that it triggers much anyway, because that's what it is; A back-up that hopefully never gets used. I've only ever had a false positive (or at least something that was borderline and I felt was acceptable, it wasn't telling me anything I didn't already know).
I just wish that the side view camera popped up when I put my turn signal on. This seems like such a simple fix. You know I intend to change lanes, just show me the view from that side camera. That seems way better than a dot on the mirror.
Why doesn't it beep? You shouldn't have to look at the screen.
I just wish that the side view camera popped up when I put my turn signal on. This seems like such a simple fix. You know I intend to change lanes, just show me the view from that side camera. That seems way better than a dot on the mirror.
They have a high tech version not a older version.The lack of a blind spot light is a huge oversight in a car of this price range. The lowest models of every other make have this simple tech.
Bingo. Adjusting side mirrors properly really helps.
How To: Adjust Your Mirrors to Avoid Blind Spots
I almost hit someone today! This seems basic! I thought this was the safest car on the road!
It DOES beep, but only if it senses that you are actually changing lanes when a car is in the blindspot and your blinker is on. I rented a car that beeped ANY time there was a car in the blind spot and the turn signal was turned on. Man, it was annoying!
They have a high tech version not a older version.
If you turn on your blinker with a car next to you, the display turns red. If you start to move over, it beeps. If you keep moving over it will try to steer you back. If you force the car to hit the car next to you... it's kinda your fault at that point.Toyota Prius is possibly the best im
Beeping anytime is annoying I agree with you there.
But what you say here is interesting - are you saying that the car will beep if:
A car is detected in your blind spot AND You are about to change into that lane AND blinker is on
If the above is right without any autopilot engaged, then I stand corrected and then it’s at least somewhat helpful. Still, I would say that there should be an alert even if the blinker is not on and you’re swerving into a lane with a vehicle in the blind spot.
If you turn on your blinker with a car next to you, the display turns red. If you start to move over, it beeps. If you keep moving over it will try to steer you back. If you force the car to hit the car next to you... it's kinda your fault at that point.
I'm rather.....unconvinced about ability to truly use them while not "tak[ing] my eyes from the road in front of me", that has the scent of self-delusion about it. Certainly in the daytime.Odd you found them “gimmicky”. I could always see them lit-up in my periphery and rarely ever had to take my eyes from the road in front of me. Saved my butt numerous times!
If you change lanes without your blinker into another car, it will beep and move you back.Totally. It’s just that the alert should still sound without turn blinker on. It probably does? It’s not safe to test that use case anyway.
Let me understand this. As a family fun game you decided to drive in a driver’s blind spot to see how often his/her car’s blind spot recognition system would succeed or fail to recognise you? You did this fifteen times or so?I was beside a late model Mercedes sedan on the way home from the cottage for about 1/2 in traffic. For a family fun game I played 'see if I can trick the blind spot sensor' on his car. About 1 in 15 times or so I could put my car squarely in the blind spot and not have the light on his mirror go on. Also, anytime I was too far forward, or too far back (but still beside him) the blind spot light did not turn on. So it is ONLY useful for cars in a very narrow spot, and only 'most' of the time. Probably useful, but not a 100% solution, and I bet he was pretty pissed at his mirror blinking on and off over a hundred times in the 1/2hr I was beside him (I wasn't intentionally screwing with him, traffic just putting me slightly ahead then slightly behind kinda thing).
ESPECIALLY, if you use a turn signal well in advance of lane changing!