Vehicle Nannies are ANNOYING in new vehicles

[TJC]

Sorry, my air quotes didn't come across so great. YOU can go into the settings in the truck's SYNC screen and find an option that keeps it off for 6 months. When the 6 months is up, SYNC asks if you want to continue with it off.

Settings > Vehicle > Rear Occupant Alert and select Off

Thanks for the info.
I don't have back seats. Does it turn off the warning for all seats?

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[subquark]

Thanks for the info.
I don't have back seats. Does it turn off the warning for all seats?

Only rear seats, I have an XL SuperCab with the small jump seats, but I lay a bed over it for the dog.

 

[awd.nv]

A few years ago I "test drove" a new Tiguan SEL Premium R-line. Fanciest of the fancy. I needed to run home for lunch, and the sales guy was like take it for a spin, let me know what you think. Ok...pull my arm why don't you lol.

Man, halfway through the drive there was a pretty big branch in the middle of the road, like some tree trimmers just finished a job and were on their way to the mulch site and lost some of their load. Anyway, so I go and do the NORMAL thing any competent driver would, steer to avoid it. What does the stupid SUV do? Corrects my steering to center because it thought I was asleep or something. Freaked me out. I'm trying not to damage or scratch this $40k+ vehicle and it says...NOPE. And of course, being a new vehicle I didn't know how to turn all that crap off yet. So I just delt with it till I got back.

I got back to work from my errand, tossed the keys to the sales guy. And he was like "Well, whadya think?"

I was like

That lane correction thing was how I experienced in the F150 loaner except I had the steering feature turned off, so it seems it is always there.

Kinda like with my Ranger, even with advanced traction off, it still applied brake on me when I started letting off the throttle in a wet road INTENTIONAL "drift"

 

[TJC]

That lane correction thing was how I experienced in the F150 loaner except I had the steering feature turned off, so it seems it is always there.

Kinda like with my Ranger, even with advanced traction off, it still applied brake on me when I started letting off the throttle in a wet road INTENTIONAL "drift"

Was ASS (Auto Start Stop) active? It might be regenerative braking. I hated that about my Ranger, and it largely stopped when I disabled ASS. The acronym was certainly well chosen and fits the "Auto Start Stop" behavior well.

I turned off the lane control and other driving aids early on. No more coffee cups notices, hand on steering wheel notices, vibrating steering wheels, etc. Just get in and go. I don't like the cruise control as it lowers gas mileage in hilly country. It doesn't let you build speed going down a small hill by coasting in order to lower the need for gas on the way up the next hill, it Instead brakes on the way down, then hits the gas hard to hold the speed going up.

Using more gas, and wearing brakes prematurely. BAD behavior! An extra 5 mph gain in speed going down eliminates the need for heavy foot going up. Using gravity to your advantage.

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