So this happened for the first time to me (in a year of owning one) the other week and thought I’d share what happens given we’re now into the winter for anyone who hasn’t yet had it happen to them;
I was cruising down the A1 at about 7pm on autosteer around 30 min south of Grantham Supercharger - was only doing around 50-60 because of the traffic - it had been pouring most of the journey down from Scotland but hadn’t had any issues…
Passing a lorry, the car veered sharply to the right (at a concrete barrier), autosteer and TACC alarmed and disconnected (no clue if a message was displayed - I wasn’t looking at the screen) and the car suddenly braked (combination of TACC disconnecting and the huge puddle that was invisible in the dark that I was now apparently in) - immediately pressed accelerator so the guy behind didn’t run into back of me but when I instinctively tried to turn away from the concrete the car was fighting me and kept trying to turn back into it… admittedly it took me a second or two to realise it wasn’t freaking out because of the lorry and was aquaplaning so that didn’t help my stress levels.
End result being all was fine (apart from my heart rate) but it seems that while autopilot freaked out and instantly disconnected another safety system had kicked in and was dealing with the problem as as soon as I stopped fighting it the car dealt with it itself.
Lesson learned from me - if using autosteer at night in heavy rain maybe consider if it’s wise and if autopilot disconnects suddenly in heavy rain don’t just assume it’s freaked out by a lorry.
I was cruising down the A1 at about 7pm on autosteer around 30 min south of Grantham Supercharger - was only doing around 50-60 because of the traffic - it had been pouring most of the journey down from Scotland but hadn’t had any issues…
Passing a lorry, the car veered sharply to the right (at a concrete barrier), autosteer and TACC alarmed and disconnected (no clue if a message was displayed - I wasn’t looking at the screen) and the car suddenly braked (combination of TACC disconnecting and the huge puddle that was invisible in the dark that I was now apparently in) - immediately pressed accelerator so the guy behind didn’t run into back of me but when I instinctively tried to turn away from the concrete the car was fighting me and kept trying to turn back into it… admittedly it took me a second or two to realise it wasn’t freaking out because of the lorry and was aquaplaning so that didn’t help my stress levels.
End result being all was fine (apart from my heart rate) but it seems that while autopilot freaked out and instantly disconnected another safety system had kicked in and was dealing with the problem as as soon as I stopped fighting it the car dealt with it itself.
Lesson learned from me - if using autosteer at night in heavy rain maybe consider if it’s wise and if autopilot disconnects suddenly in heavy rain don’t just assume it’s freaked out by a lorry.