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My pretty basic Corsa has a Reset button on the end of the left-hand stalk.
It's 'blind spot detection' - but it does raise another couple of points if I may...
That is a problem for Audi drivers as they never use the indicators.
It's a 'dumb' system. It doesn't actually know what the tyre pressure is, only that it is less than the last time it was reset when it comes on. Your car has varying pressures your tyres can be set to depending on the number of people generally carried or loads. You choose your pressure to suit what your requirements are and then set it, it will then alarm when there is a drop of a set amount from the set pressure. These monitors don't tend to measure pressure but the 'roundness' of the tyre so it needs to be zeroed each time you go past the maximum deflation it has set. if you massively overinflate or underinflate the tyre and set it, it will work from that point it doesn't know what pressure you set it to.
Some Audi's have 'lane drift detection / lane keeping assist' or whatever their special name is for it. I know the Master Tech. at the local Audi dealers, he was telling me a while ago that 'many, if not most' of the vehicles with it fitted are brought in for steering concerns (the electric assist on the steering rack applies positive pressure to keep in lane unless the indicators are used), most are given a test drive to confirm everything works as expected and the driver is told that it is normal behaviour if the indicators are not used..... there's been several drivers 'demanding' that the feature is turned off...
I hired a Holden Arcadia, a rebadged Buick SUV that did that; the tug on the steering wheel was quite disconcerting. The thing also had vibrating seats; drift to the left and the left side of the seat squab vibrates, right and the right side does.
A bit of black & nasty over the camera(s) sorts most things.... unless it's a real smart@rrse one that uses a speed limit database with GPS referencing.
The Harrier and Jaguar anti lock systems, as taught at Halton have just come flooding back. Just needed the Maxeret system for the full syllabus.
There is also another system with transponders in the wheels which do measure tyre pressure & temperature, however, these also have to be 'taught in' as there is varying pressures for each vehicle model dependent upon load and variant of wheel / tyre fitted. Both systems have their advantages and downsides.
My tyre pressure warning tells me which tyre is low when it drops to 27.
Mrs KoRs Jeep has this. Its OK on the motorway, but on A and B roads where you are dodging round potholes etc its a PITA and a distraction.
Sorted. No need to be shy.
The autobraking (pre-sense I think they call it) is really worthy of the thread title - unsurprisingly it's common across VAG(e) vehicles and is also a common source of complaints, the biggest problem is direct sunlight, especially in early winter / spring when the sun is low and reflections from shop windows, buses, other cars etc. etc. The system doesn't log any faults because it doesn't see the input as an invalid trigger, so diagnostically, there's nothing to go at, all you can do is look for patterns in the behaviour (time of day, weather, location, direction of travel etc.) and look for correlations in behaviour and triggers. It's a bit like 'false' activations of DAS on the C130's - in some ways you'd rather have false positives but it's feckin' annoying when it happens.
