About to lose it - how do I permanently disable attention assist?!
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About to lose it - how do I permanently disable attention assist?!
Gotta be the dumbest safety feature ever. I turn it off only for it to turn back on the next time I start the vehicle. Reminds me of start stop. Anyways, is there ANY permanent method to disable this “feature”? I’m about to go crazy with all the beeping!!
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It cannot be permanently turned off. It will automatically reactivate after the engine has been stopped. However, I've never actually heard a peep from it ever, at least in the latest generation cars and I've done road trips with up to 12 hours of driving in a single day. If you read your owners manual (page 175), there are several scenarios under which it simply suspends itself. For example it doesn't do anything for journeys of less than 30 minutes, or if you adopt a sporty driving style, or use Steering Assist as well as several other scenarios. How do you drive that it beeps at you regularly? You must drive in a way that it thinks your are not paying enough attention. The system detects fatigue through the steering inputs from the driver. If you frequently make steering adjustments last minute for example then it thinks you are drowsy. Yours might be malfunctioning or you need to reassess your driving style.
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It cannot be permanently turned off. It will automatically reactivate after the engine has been stopped. However, I've never actually heard a peep from it ever, at least in the latest generation cars and I've done road trips with up to 12 hours of driving in a single day. If you read your owners manual (page 175), there are several scenarios under which it simply suspends itself. For example it doesn't do anything for journeys of less than 30 minutes, or if you adopt a sporty driving style, or use Steering Assist as well as several other scenarios. How do you drive that it beeps at you regularly? You must drive in a way that it thinks your are not paying enough attention. The system detects fatigue through the steering inputs from the driver. If you frequently make steering adjustments last minute for example then it thinks you are drowsy. Yours might be malfunctioning or you need to reassess your driving style.
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I drive like anyone else pretty. It beeps at me whenever I activate my turn signals and begin the brake. Also does this when making a simple turn. The red triangle flashes in both mirrors and a beeping sound is made. It always defaults to sensitive every time I start the car.
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I drive like anyone else pretty. It beeps at me whenever I activate my turn signals and begin the brake. Also does this when making a simple turn. The red triangle flashes in both mirrors and a beeping sound is made. It always defaults to sensitive every time I start the car.
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Another possibility is to put the car in sport mode. IDK if that will disable the turn signal issue, but it does help with lane change warnings, attention assist, etc.
I agree with others - if there's nothing there when you're putting your turn signal on and it's still beeping at you, then the system needs to be reset/calibrated. Best of luck.
I agree with others - if there's nothing there when you're putting your turn signal on and it's still beeping at you, then the system needs to be reset/calibrated. Best of luck.
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I would start by disabling the side assist in the vehicle menu and see if it stops, you could have a loose sensor in one of the bumpers. This happened on our GL and I ignored it until one day it tried to steer me into the next lane thinking we were about to crash even though there was no car next to us. Just needed the sensor re-seated and then it was fine.
Is it actually saying something about attention assist on the dashboard, or is it just the beeping and triangles?
Is it actually saying something about attention assist on the dashboard, or is it just the beeping and triangles?
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That's not attention assist. You are confusing something. That's the side assist (blind spot assist) if you have red triangles flashing in the mirrors and what you describe sounds like a malfunction. That's not normal. Although it can be normal if there are actually cars next to you, because if you turn on the turn signal it thinks you may change lanes and warns you of the adjacent vehicles. That happens in my car sometimes on two lane roads if I turn on my indicator to turn and both lanes are turning in the same direction. If there's a car in the adjacent lane, then it beeps at me briefly. Doesn't happen all that often, but side assist can be turned off in the vehicle settings if you really don't like it.
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The correct non annoying settings are
DtR steering assist on
PRe safe break activated Attention assist standard
Blind spot assist on
Active Lane keep assist off
Echo mode off
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Correct, I don't have Distronic. I already had lane keep assist turned off so it appears that setting attention assist to "standard" has resolved the issue. Drove around today and the only time it beeped at me is when I was had my left turn signal on whilst passing oncoming traffic.
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Correct, I don't have Distronic. I already had lane keep assist turned off so it appears that setting attention assist to "standard" has resolved the issue. Drove around today and the only time it beeped at me is when I was had my left turn signal on whilst passing oncoming traffic.
Correct, I don't have Distronic. I already had lane keep assist turned off so it appears that setting attention assist to "standard" has resolved the issue. Drove around today and the only time it beeped at me is when I was had my left turn signal on whilst passing oncoming traffic.
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I brought up the thing about the AUX battery cuz my car used to (knock on wood) give me random blind spot assist inop. messages. I'd have a constant yellow triangle in the side views. I changed the AUX battery and those messages never came back.... again... knock on wood.
the red triangles in the mirrors are for blind spot assist, i was mentioning the red triangle in the cluster, as i know the beeps and red triangle in the cluster are for presafe brake, nor the belts nor the brakes works when presafe brake is working, i think on newer car the brake will auto works, can someone here confirm that the brakes are applied auto with the w212/w218 chassis?
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Yeah, I think there's a general misunderstanding of the assistance systems in this thread. The attention assist does not beep or warn in the described situations. It only reminds you to take a break if it thinks you are not fit to drive anymore. The kinds of warnings described here come from the blind spot assist, lane keeping and pre safe assist.
