darmano
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The braking alert has happened to me as well - in a parking garage, on the up ramp and on a bridge. It didn't stop me, because it must have cleared.
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I don't have it on my JL, but have had it in my previous 2 Hondas. You are right in that it can help avoid an accident... and that 1 time could make all the difference. On the other hand what if it CAUSES an accident? I was in a left turn lane behind a car that was making a U-turn. As I approached it sensed the slower vehicle and braked hard. The vehicle was easily going to clear before I got there, but the computer decided it wasn't moving and wanted to stop the truck. Had someone been behind me it would have likely hit, as it was I nearly had to floor it to override the locked brakes. As a result I have very mixed feelings about automatic braking (as well as ACC). But with the Jeep I'll just roll over anything that stops in frontAll it takes is 1 incident where it DOES save you
Good to know it made a full stop. I get random alerts occasionally and wondered why it gave a huge sound and displayed BRAKE but didn’t actually stop. And I wasn’t going to intentionally test the feature. Good to knowYes! Full brakes from about 8mph.
That is an alert, where the computer has determined that you still have to to brake yourself and avoid a collision. It only locks the brakes when it determines there's not enough time for you to hear/see the alert, perceive it, move your foot to the brake, smash the pedal and get stopped in time.Good to know it made a full stop. I get random alerts occasionally and wondered why it gave a huge sound and displayed BRAKE but didn’t actually stop. And I wasn’t going to intentionally test the feature. Good to know
The system on the Wrangler should never do this. According to what I read at least, it will only apply brakes for you at speed under 30mph. If you're going over 30mph, it will alert you, and if you hit the brakes at that time, it will apply them fully. But it will not brake until you hit the pedal.I had this happen on my 2015 Grand Cherokee. A car ahead of me was exiting the freeway on an offramp but my car assumed he was slowing down in front on me and slammed on the brakes on the freeway.
Same thing happened to me. Scared the heck out of me.So I have a 2019 JLUR with all the safety stuff. Today in a parking garage I was just going up a ramp and it blared an alert and auto brakes kicked in hard, scared me quite a bit. Has anyone else had any issues with this? I’ve since turned off the auto brake portion of it and just have it alert.
It only happens very very occasionally in parking garages.Same thing happened to me. Scared the heck out of me.
I am already sick of all the bells, chimes,and warnings. I’m a Luddite.
Has this issue reoccurred for you? I am going to try to turn off the auto braking...... it seems it can’t be trusted.