Driver Assistance
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reading the manual several times is certainly recommended.
but I believe the "adaptive" vs "standard" is for lane keeping assist not attention assist, which is just on, or can be turned off (for good).
Adaptive: tries to reduce the number of vibration alerts that may be incorrectly triggered from spirited driving such as hard acceleration and braking, swerving, cutting sharp corners
Standard: alerts (vibrates) more often, basically every time you drift over what it thinks are lane markings without indicating.
In both cases if you continue to drift or don't correct, the car will then lightly apply the brakes on one side and a big picture of the car and a red line on the offending side lights up. This one-sided braking is not IMO effective in placing you back into lane it really just delays the drift slightly, the braking period is quite short. If you've had a heart attack, you're still gonna run off the road. The braking is more disconcerting than the vibration, though, and if you are drifting because you are distracted it certainly can't be ignored. The vibration is really very slight.
In 2000kms of driving I've had the vibrate warning many times, but go further to braking, only a few. I do like the feature though, I've turned off attention assist because I think the lane keeping assist will do the job (of nagging me) should I drive tired.
but I believe the "adaptive" vs "standard" is for lane keeping assist not attention assist, which is just on, or can be turned off (for good).
Adaptive: tries to reduce the number of vibration alerts that may be incorrectly triggered from spirited driving such as hard acceleration and braking, swerving, cutting sharp corners
Standard: alerts (vibrates) more often, basically every time you drift over what it thinks are lane markings without indicating.
In both cases if you continue to drift or don't correct, the car will then lightly apply the brakes on one side and a big picture of the car and a red line on the offending side lights up. This one-sided braking is not IMO effective in placing you back into lane it really just delays the drift slightly, the braking period is quite short. If you've had a heart attack, you're still gonna run off the road. The braking is more disconcerting than the vibration, though, and if you are drifting because you are distracted it certainly can't be ignored. The vibration is really very slight.
In 2000kms of driving I've had the vibrate warning many times, but go further to braking, only a few. I do like the feature though, I've turned off attention assist because I think the lane keeping assist will do the job (of nagging me) should I drive tired.
