I just had a really bad experience with Radar-disabled TACC. We were passing a semi-trailer on the Hume Highway in fairly mild rain but lots of spray from the truck. TACC was set to 107km/h. As we passed the truck the TACC suddenly slowed to 90km/h. We were right beside the truck with poor visibility when this happened. It was impossible to know what had happened - especially for the driver. Since I was the passenger at the time I thought my partner had slowed deliberately but they had not done anything to slow the car. I then noticed a small alert message that was barely readable that said something about Auto Pilot being limited. That didn’t make sense to me at the time since we were only on TACC (not Auto steer). This was not a phantom brake incident. The car deliberately slowed because of the spray from the semi.
The impact of this was that we were placed into a potentially dangerous situation of being stuck beside a semi in it’s spray thinking that we were on cruise control and would therefore overtake the truck as normal.
This is a total failure of basic cruise control. Caused by the fact that the radar on our car has been disabled.
The impact of this was that we were placed into a potentially dangerous situation of being stuck beside a semi in it’s spray thinking that we were on cruise control and would therefore overtake the truck as normal.
This is a total failure of basic cruise control. Caused by the fact that the radar on our car has been disabled.