[Qinsp]

2017 with DCP I & II & ACC.

With the Lane Keep LED lit on the steering wheel, and the green LKA icon on the speedo cluster in the upper right, it does not appear to have any effect on a freeway with 4 lanes.

Is this normal?

ACC works, AEB works, Blind Spot works, but Lane Keep at best will turn the icon yellow if it runs over lane marker lines.

 

[Chinatown 888]

If u have it on the u go off lane without signaling the steering will pull u back in your lane softly. And if you let go of you steering it would go bouncing left and right between the two lane lines like a retarded autopilot

 

[Qinsp]

If u have it on the u go off lane without signaling the steering will pull u back in your lane softly. And if you let go of you steering it would go bouncing left and right between the two lane lines like a retarded autopilot

So it kicks in if I try to leave the lane? Gotcha.

I will experiment when there are fewer cars on the road.

Can't complain too much. The loaded 2017 wasn't more than the stripped 2016. So the safety stuff was pretty much free.

 

[DA\Volt]

It will nudge you back into your lane if the car doesn't interpret your crossing the line as being under your controlled power. If you're like me and make very shallow moves changing lanes it will almost feel like it's fighting you to make the lane change. If you make an obvious strong turn of the wheel it will not try to correct you. Makes sense so it doesn't fight you in a panic lane change.

If the turn signal is on in the direction you're changing lanes, it will not activate.

It's nothing like an autopilot... It isn't designed to keep you driving in the middle of your lane, just prevent you from drifting into the other lane unintentionally. It usually doesn't activate until you're a bit over the lane already.

I tried just letting go of the wheel many times to see what would happen after slightly nudging off center of the lane. The car will correct itself, and in fact over-correct enough to put you on course to cross the lane on the other side of you let it. It will then start bouncing back and forth within the lane with sloppier and sloppier control and going further and further over the line on each oscillation. You'd surely be pulled over if a cop saw you doing this, and I felt like after a few bounces the car would probably just go off course completely.

It does work for safety for me. It's nudged me back on more than once when the radio controls, or yes, a text message distracted me. I'm glad my car has the option.

The system uses a camera to read the lane lines, so if your road doesn't have good lines, it won't work at all.

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[Qinsp]

In a way, it's sort of good. If you are a drunk or texter, you will still weave down the road so the cops will bag you. But it might keep you from killing an innocent.

 

[DrakeRuns]

And if you let go of you steering it would go bouncing left and right between the two lane lines like a retarded autopilot

So wrong, yet so hilarious.

 

[Chinatown 888]

So wrong, yet so hilarious.

Why can chevy programmer just spent another day reprogram the damn system to do autopilot like a tesla. Atleast fix the bouncing effect. The parts are all there. Chevy volt owners are smart and mature people unlike half those tesla spoiled rich kids who use it for drag racing or as bedroom as they drive. Anyway. On a small curve road on retard pilot mode on it will feel like autopilot for a little bit

 

[etz]

I find that after the third or so lane bounce, the car sounds an alarm and displays a message that I need to take control of the steering wheel.

 

[Qinsp]

It sounds like what we used to call "driving by braille". You steer the car based on hitting the bumps with your tires.

 

[brad112358]

Why can chevy programmer just spent another day reprogram the damn system to do autopilot like a tesla. Atleast fix the bouncing effect. The parts are all there. Chevy volt owners are smart and mature people unlike half those tesla spoiled rich kids who use it for drag racing or as bedroom as they drive. Anyway. On a small curve road on retard pilot mode on it will feel like autopilot for a little bit

I think GM's motivation here is pretty obvious. If they wanted to keep the car near the center of the lane *most* of the time, they could, but if they did, it would indeed become an autopilot like Tesla's. And like Tesla's, lane detection would need to be very very reliable and there would be no easy way to detect if the driver is paying enough attention. GM is, probably more adverse to legal-risk than Tesla. They can't offer an autopilot which will encourage drivers to take their eyes off the road or their hands off the wheel until it is foolproof. Instead, they choose to offer a safety feature. As a safety feature, the lane location doesn't need to be known 100% of the time so it is easier to conservatively implement just by calculating when the estimate of the lane position may not be reliable. The goal is for the driver to steer the car, but to save the driver from him/herself if they are distracted or fall asleep at the wheel. Sometimes the dash icon disappears indicating no confident estimate of the lane location is available but it is much much more rare that the car attempts to steer out of it's lane because it is confused about lane location. I am quite happy with the existing lane keeping safety feature.

 

[PJL]

Why can chevy programmer just spent another day reprogram the damn system to do autopilot like a tesla. Atleast fix the bouncing effect. The parts are all there. Chevy volt owners are smart and mature people unlike half those tesla spoiled rich kids who use it for drag racing or as bedroom as they drive. Anyway. On a small curve road on retard pilot mode on it will feel like autopilot for a little bit

You're trivializing a very complex function. And as good as the Volt is (especially for its price), it does not have nearly the sophistication in terms of sensors available or brute processing power for an "autopilot" function like Tesla.

 

[Chinatown 888]

You're trivializing a very complex function. And as good as the Volt is (especially for its price), it does not have nearly the sophistication in terms of sensors available or brute processing power for an "autopilot" function like Tesla.

If u have the sensors for autopark you can also auto pilot. Tesla is just a bigger volt in a suit and tie.....

 

[2017voltowner]

A little off-topic but I am impressed to see that Telsa is really pushing the automatic driving issue. They are equipping all their cars with the necessary parts and then charging to use them later.
I don't think I would be willing to pay $10,000 to unlock such a feature as autopilot but I'd be darn pleased to know that I could.

 

[VoltronEd]

If you start to drift, first the steering wheel "feel" stiffens a bit, as if your tires are in a groove. If you drift too far for its liking, it nudges the steering just a bit to encourage you back on track.

I thought I might end up turning it off, but, in practice found it to be mild and helpful (and easily overridden when encountering the occasional weird lane merge/marking).

 

[PJL]

If u have the sensors for autopark you can also auto pilot. Tesla is just a bigger volt in a suit and tie.....

No it is not. Do some homework on the technology.

 

[Jmaj]

It sounds like what we used to call "driving by braille". You steer the car based on hitting the bumps with your tires.

Reminds me to my first visit to SF in 1981. Sister picked me up at the airport and we drove to her house on a very foggy night. The freeway stretch was pretty much what you described and so I learned why roads had raised lane markers instead of painted stripes.

 

[hellsop]

Reminds me to my first visit to SF in 1981. Sister picked me up at the airport and we drove to her house on a very foggy night. The freeway stretch was pretty much what you described and so I learned why roads had raised lane markers instead of painted stripes.

They also don't have to worry about them being peeled off by snowplows.

 

[Qinsp]

OK, after 450 miles of continuous driving with LKA, first: It does not hurt to leave it on. While it won't always help, sometimes it does.

Blind Spot Warning was really handy. That worked pretty good.

The Adaptive Cruise works great 99% of the time. But after one incident where it scared the family, we have now figured out the name for this car. Christine, from Stephen King. Sometimes it will behave very unhuman-like.

 

[striker]

Why can chevy programmer just spent another day reprogram the damn system to do autopilot like a tesla. Atleast fix the bouncing effect. The parts are all there. Chevy volt owners are smart and mature people unlike half those tesla spoiled rich kids who use it for drag racing or as bedroom as they drive. Anyway. On a small curve road on retard pilot mode on it will feel like autopilot for a little bit

Some people own both Tesla and Volt. I would not generalize them all (or even half) as a basket of deplorable, spoiled, rich kids.

Much less reason to get a Tesla if the Volt does everything a Tesla can at half the price.

If Chevy could have made this happen, they already would have.

 

[PilotAlan]

I think GM's motivation here is pretty obvious. ... GM is, probably more adverse to legal-risk than Tesla.

I think the motivation is classic GM, Chevy vs. Cadillac. In the same way that ACC, auto highbeams, and a few other items didn't come to the Volt until the ELR was discontinued. Supercruise will be a Cadillac option.

GM is changing, but some things remain the same. Some options will be limited by Division, so that there is a reason to climb the ladder to Cadillac. Sad but true.