The Bolt does have automatic emergency braking. I believe it works up to 50 mph.We drove to the winery last night to fine tune the acids of our wines as protection against the heat wave. It was very hot and dark and we drove along our favorite back roads for a quicker trip. Then my partner, suddenly screamed to alarm me that we're going to collide to a vehicle without lights, but by then the Volt automatically slowed down to match the speed of the vehicle without visible tail lights. I then explained that it is one of the safety features of the Chevy Volt. The vehicle is a tractor, and you know how slow they travel, was pulling a trailer with bales of hay so that the hay was covering all the trailer lights, and the tractor cannot be seen from behind the bales of hay, so it was almost invisible on a dark night on a country road. Am so glad that I got the Adaptive Cruise Control package and it alerted me of the vehicle ahead even if I can't visually see it and it automatically slowed down to keep a safe distance. It is no wonder why the second generation Chevy Volt got the highest safety rating among all the US manufactured cars.
I wish they'll have the ACC soon on the Chevy Bolt EV. It's the only thing that's holding me from buying it.
My setting was on medium gap. It wasn't even a bother to me but my partner was panicking as he has better night vision than me.So your ACC was on? If so, how fast was it set to, and what gap?
I'm curious how well the Volt does without the ACC active. My last car would release the gas and apply hard breaking if I didn't react in time to a slow/stopped vehicle.
If you were using ACC you would never have collided with that trailer, and would have started slowing down long before you got very close, and it wouldn't have been too scary. If you weren't using ACC, that's when the real "safety" features kick in. Please illuminate further.
Unfortunately, it was covered by dangling hay. If the trailer is only to be used on the farm and the farmer's private road, there are no requirements on what should be on them. However, farmers sometimes forget and use the trailer on regular public roads for short distances.Joe was the REFLECTIVE SMV sign on the back of the trailer as required by law
Fair enough that ACC works well. But I don't so much attribute that to the Volt itself. ACC has been in use as far back as 2005 by MB (Distronic). Volvo has had it since 2007. I think Chevy only first had this technology in 2014.My setting was on medium gap. It wasn't even a bother to me but my partner was panicking as he has better night vision than me.
I have been driving cars exclusively with this feature since 2007, and use it extensively. I can tell you I wouldn't buy any car without it. For several years I was buying more expensive cars because that's all that had it. Now every Toyota can be equipped with it. I really hate driving rentals because I "need" that feature.It's good to get this real-world example of how well the system works. Seeing a demonstration in an advertisement looks impressive, but leaves doubt about how it works in the wild. I have scarcely ever driven a car with the feature, and have never activated it.
Thanks.
That, hold me to give any second test drive to the Bolt EV until then, I'll enjoy my Volt gen1.I wish they'll have the ACC soon on the Chevy Bolt EV. It's the only thing that's holding me from buying it.