Speed warning system intelligence driving me crazy

Mine is at the end of a seemingly endless settings menu. But you can turn the volume down on it easily and then you can't really hear it over the radio so I just leave it on

Mine sometimes puts the brakes on when I'm reversing into the drive as it's sure I'm going to hit the tree at the side...I'm Not!!

That feature that drags the steering wheel drives me mad too. It's supposed to keep you in your lane if you fall asleep on the motorway, but it seems to be activated over about 35 mph. Overtaking parked cars, I don't want to indicate right, because I don't want other drivers to think I'm indicating to turn right. It yanks the steering wheel to the left and I have to wrestle it back to avoid hitting said parked cars.

Automatic braking, too - again when overtaking a parked (or moving) car, I judge that I have plenty of time/room to overtake and pull back in before oncoming traffic reaches me. The car, however, senses a head-on collision coming, and slams the brakes on. That means now I don't have time to overtake and pull back in, and the collision is much more likely. I swear the car is trying to kill me. Maybe it's depressed and suicidal.

My husband got so annoyed by it that he actually slowed down - we live in a newly created 20 zone. I quite like it (as a "back seat driver"). Sometimes it is annoying if it picks up the side-road limit, but the tech is getting better.

It's really annoying, especially as the speed signs round here are faded or overgrown with hedge so it hasn't noticed I've gone in to a national so it flashes 30 at me in a 60. I managed to turn the voice off because she was so patronising

On my car (volvo xc40) there is a little left facing arrow on the left hand side of my steering wheel and I have to press it to turn off the warning on each car journey.

I have to turn it off as there are sections of the road that it thinks has a lower speed limit than the actual limit on the signs e.g. there's a section that goes past an industrial estate with a 5mph limit within so it then thinks the main road outside also has a 5mph limit when its actually 30mph. There are various other areas with a similar issue.

Our local Tesco has a 15mph limit sign on the road out of the car park, but there’s no sign when you get on to the proper road, which is 30. So it beeps at me until some random point near the next roundabout - not sure what’s making it change, as there’s no road sign there.

I had to do a speed awareness course for doing 33 in a 30.

And it picks up 20 mph limits of side roads when you are on a main road and incorrectly goes off on one.

i got told off my by mum when it incorrectly started beeping. She took the cars side even though she knew it was 30mph where we were driving

My car hasn’t realised they’ve changed the A303 so wants me to go 50 in what’s now 70mph and get cross I’m not in the lane and rather in a field (it’s the new road where the podimore round about used to be; I definitely wasn’t driving in a field.)

Ha! I've got a new Audi and these 'features' drive me up the wall as well

Surely it's just as easy to stick to the speed limit? Isn't part of safe driving/ driving with due care and attention being aware of the prevailing limit AND your speed?

And if you are do unaware, the beep.is obviously needed

What car is it?

Is the speed limit 20mph everywhere you drive then? Because that's when she said it goes off, not when shes breaking the speed limit

Is it an Audi OP? We had a hire car that did this once. Drove me up the wall along with some weird feature that randomly pulled the steering wheel!

One or two miles over in a 20 mph zone hardly registers as an issue. The people who cause accidents and kill people are the ones who ignore speed limits entirely. There are still people who do 50,60,70 mph in 30 mph zones

Plus if it goes by the speedo number, it thinks you're doing 71 mph when you're likely only doing 67.

It doesn't always pick up the right speed limit. For example there's a long section of A road near me which was 40mph for a while for road works but is now back to 60mph. It beeps constantly for miles as a result if you don't switch it off.

There's also another stretch which has been back to 30 for about 6 months but was 10mph for a while while a bridge was being replaced. Again random beeping every time you go through.

Also it doesn't recognise for about 10 seconds when you move out of a 30 into a 40 or 40/60. More beeping when I'm driving perfectly legally.

I'm capable of keeping my speed under the limit without the random beeps when it gets confused

Just google it. There will be an owners chat forum with a solution.

It's not perfect technology - if you drive past an exit on the motorway it'll think the speed limit is lower e.g
30/40 and ping like mad that you're doing 68mph

What car is it @Bananasandcarrots? my DP bought a new car and his is the same, it’s literally one button to press on his right hand side. Took him ages to figure out

We just bought a new hyundai tuscon and had the same issue.

Luckily found there is a shortcut on the steering wheel to turn it off. Thank God.- was driving me mad!!

Bit harsh. It beeps if you literally go 1 mile over the speed limit in our Kia. I’m sure most people do that every time they drive from time to time. It’s easily done. It drives me crazy.

Why on earth can't you just stick to the speed limit,
or do you just pick and choose which laws you break?

What car is it? On my volvo you press the left arrow button on the left hand side of the steering wheel and it switches it off.

It annoyed me at first to have to do it each time but I do it on auto pilot now.