PSA - Reverse Auto Braking

[fwunder]

It doesn't compensate for trailer hitch! And...Hyundai rear fender valence is ridiculously expensive!!

Posting for a friend.

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[EL5_Zero]

Picture or it didn't happen lol ?

 

[fwunder]

Picture or it didn't happen lol ?

Hitch or Hyundai? Got distracted backing up to pickup disabled friend. Truck slammed on the brakes, but by that time trailer hitch did its thing to plastic pos parked behind me....I mean him.

 

[JumboJVT]

So the question is: would you still have backed into him if you never had the nanny? I'm only half serious, and expect the answer is "yes".

But I do see what I percieve to be a significant dumbing down of drivers every day, especially in winter, that I attribute to a whole generation growing up with vehicles that all but drive themselves. Young people have never driven a rig without anti-lock brakes, stability or traction control. All good things, but they deprive young drivers of the physics lessons offered by rigs without 'em. #1 lesson? Two masses cannot occupy the same space at the same time.

 

[Ricksc]

Doesn’t sound real. I turned mine off because they are to sensitive with in 3 feet it’s stopping truck. Plus you’re still driving the car. If you drive and rely on everything else to do your job you deserve what happens.

 

[BILDOZER]

How fast where you going? I have had mine engage with plenty of room to spare when I was backing out of a parking spot. I tested the feature with a trash can and it applied the brakes to a full stop five out of five times. The only time I hit the trashcan was when I was reversing briskly. My thorey is you may have been moving to quickly for the system to work as it should?

 

[Goldeneye36]

I've had the opposite experience. Twice now I had the system freak out and flash all sorts of warnings and/or hit the brakes when backing up slowly to hedges in a parking lot I frequent. Usually there's 5+ ft of room and I was crawling out of the space but the system doesn't like it for some reason and over reacts.

 

[fwunder]

Tough crowd. Yes, it was a dumb move. I was just crawling in reverse wanting to tuck as close as possible - something I do often in my stone walled driveway. I usually don't drive around with the shin knocker ( hitch ) sans trailer. The hitch ball ball kissed the bumper valence and the truck auto braked as the ball just caught the lip of the valance and broke it as I move forward. Bumper never touched the car. I wasn't paying attention to the hitch. Like I said, dumb move. Good thing I didn't have my 20" hitch attached to the truck!!

 

[Old Hat]

Will the truck auto brake if the driver is already on the brake? (but still rolling)

 

[JumboJVT]

Doesn’t sound real. I turned mine off because they are to sensitive with in 3 feet it’s stopping truck. Plus you’re still driving the car. If you drive and rely on everything else to do your job you deserve what happens.

Seemed obvious to me even before the OP's followup tha the post was tounge-in-cheek and he took full responsibility for the bump. Its funny; who cares if the "feature" was really engaged or not? But it was,so just wrong... but at least not in unpleasant, omnipotent way ?

 

[nvabill]

The hitch ball ball kissed the bumper valence and the truck auto braked as the ball just caught the lip of the valance and broke it as I move forward. Bumper never touched the car.

If I may make a suggestion, if this ever happens again don't be in a hurry to separate the vehicles. You could have possibly avoided further damage by a few quick ideas such as unbolt the hitch ball, let air out of your rear tires, jack the front of the truck up and back the car away, jack or have someone help you lighten the car on the springs or even pop the bumper cover loose before moving the truck away.

 

[fwunder]

If I may make a suggestion, if this ever happens again don't be in a hurry to separate the vehicles. You could have possibly avoided further damage by a few quick ideas such as unbolt the hitch ball, let air out of your rear tires, jack the front of the truck up and back the car away, jack or have someone help you lighten the car on the springs or even pop the bumper cover loose before moving the truck away.

Yeah, I figured that out….too late.

 

[fwunder]

So I had to try.

1) Foot on brake
2) No Brake

 

[fwunder]

So above you can see with foot on brake hitch just plows through can - truck would have hit it.. With no foot on brake hitch smacks the can but truck stops before bumper would hit can. Kinda interesting.

 

[Billflangjr]

So the question is: would you still have backed into him if you never had the nanny? I'm only half serious, and expect the answer is "yes".

But I do see what I percieve to be a significant dumbing down of drivers every day, especially in winter, that I attribute to a whole generation growing up with vehicles that all but drive themselves. Young people have never driven a rig without anti-lock brakes, stability or traction control. All good things, but they deprive young drivers of the physics lessons offered by rigs without 'em. #1 lesson? Two masses cannot occupy the same space at the same time.

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