I have seen a few false alarms. They have always been in bright sunlight when the sun is low on the horizon and a heavy shadow falls across my car. I think the low sun temporarily blinds the camera and it thinks it sees a car stopped.TSquare,
I would say you may be right, but this was not Forward Collision Alert, with the red LED's lighting up and that fast higher pitch audio alert (as shown on p208). I have heard this other alert go off before, in fact had just told my girlfriend what I thought was going on (how I thought the forward camera was seeing the stop lights) and yesterday after just getting off I90 we came up on a light that had just gone yellow...a second or so later it did it again...I said to her "There....it did it again, on yellow this time". I don't recall a car in front of us....but maybe there was.
I will run some red lights this week to see if I can get it to do it again
Anyway, if anyone else experiencing this please post here. If the cars camera is seeing stop lights (that are red or yellow) it is a cool idea it alerts the driver.
Jeff
Correct, I have set off the red LED (forward collision notice) plenty of times as the car believes you're not slowing fast enough. If you listen you can hear it mute your music too which is always a give away for me. I've also had it go off when on the highway and someone cuts in front of me too close/fast. In fact, the car will brake for you if you're using the adaptive cruise control. Although, it brakes in an abrupt manner if you ask me. And yes the short few beeps with no red LED is the car detecting objects in your view path which includes pedestrians. That same warning goes off twice when the wife backs out of the garage. Once for how close the side of the car is to the garage door opening and again as she backs into the road as the neighbors mail box is right behind her. At this point. we have become some what immune to all the beeping but at first it was fairly annoying. I also got the object in path beep the other day when backing out of the Bass Pro Shop. A car not even behind me was passing by in far away lane and it picked up the motion and warned me. I actually find the warning when backing up out of parking spots to be valuable. Especially when you happen to be parked between two larger vehicles and can't see around the corners until your car is 1/2 way out. I've had the car warn me both when cars and/or people are moving behind me. I believe it also puts an arrow on the screen to tell which direction they are coming from which is nice.
The front collision warning goes off because the truck in front of you is stopped and you are approaching it too fast.
The front parking sensors wrap all the way around the front. In addition to the ones facing forward, there is one on each side just in front of the wheels. I believe they will alert you if you are backing up and turning if one of the front corners get too close to something.
