As I understand with the high beam assist you can just leave it on high beam and the system does the rest!?
Do you need to have your hand on the steering wheel? I have heard if you don't it de-activates? I do a lot of motorway driving. I don't think I will pay extra for the ACC I feel the normal Cruise control should be adequate?
Do you need to have your hand on the steering wheel? I have heard if you don't it de-activates? I do a lot of motorway driving. I don't think I will pay extra for the ACC I feel the normal Cruise control should be adequate?
I would imagine this would only be really good with S-Tronic in stop start situations?on the motorway acc works well as if you are approaching a vehicle going at a slower pace it will slow you down as you get close and how you at a set distance behind the vehicle.
I don't find this at all. It works fine on country roads around here. Of course it will sometimes dip when it sees a car coming round some bends in the distance, then go onto full again if it drops behind a hedge. But it always seems to do what I would do manually.I have High Beam assist and it works great on motorways and major roads. Where I live, there are lots of country lanes with high hedges and, understandably it gets confused there and keeps to dipped. I guess it is getting backscatter from the hedges? I would specify it again (and indeed have)
Just download the brochure. Much easier and all the options are laid out.No you can have it separately. Just had a look on the configurator, and if under "5 Equipment", you go into Expert mode to show all the options (I actually only got into expert mode by selecting it under "6 Genuine Audi Accessories" and then going back to "5 Equipment" by clicking on that tab - all options then show in Expert mode) - just over halfway down under Assistance Systems, you will see High Beam Assist as an option - cost £100
I personally found lane assist a pain in the neck,if not indicating during lane changing,it would shudder the steering wheel,then intervention mode was never needed,so for the 2 years that l had my car,it was switched to off
Good roadcraft (Police, IAM etc) practice is that you only indicate where there is someone to indicate to, or where it is of benefit to someone else.
Hence in the UK if you were sitting an advanced test, you would be marked down for unnecessary indicating when moving back into Lane 2 from Lane 3 on a motorway, after an overtake (if there were no benefit to any other road user). Or indeed unnecessary indicating from Lane 1 to Lane 2 if there were no one behind you, or ahead of the car in Lane 1 that you are going to overtake.
was waiting for someone to say that - mind you, I think I may have misunderstood - I don't ever indicate when moving back into my own lane following an overtake - does lane assist force you to do this? If so I can see the complaint!It is not IAM, Police, ROSPA, ADI Cardington etc. procedure to indicate when moving back into your own lane. And only indicate to overtake where it is of benefit to other drivers.
If you're not absolutely certain about other drivers, then you are not aware of your own surroundings
Has anyone ever had this? I am thinking of getting it with inc high beam assist?
How good is it?
Cheers,
Haha thats why I got it too, I never expected to use it so often, but as I currently do a lot of motorway miles, it's been very helpfulI specified it, but mainly so I could get the Speed Limit display in the DIS.
You certainly wouln't fail your IAM test for it.
I don't car what the police/IAM/whatever do
It's far far better to be in the habit of doing something and do it every time than have to make another decision each time
Because doing something that is repetitive and out of habit would never make you complacent and dangerous, and never mislead other road users and give the wrong signals, as each situation is identical to the previous, eh
. The less amber flashing lights on the road, the better
In addition, the rationale for not just indicating every time is that there is more chance of other drivers mis-reading your signals and causing an incident. There are plenty of examples of spurious and ill-timed signals on the road, leading to confusion. The less amber flashing lights on the road, the better
I remember an old article in Performance Car that put forward the (same) idea that if you are only indicating to some local sheep then you are not really driving the vehicle any more.
However, at the end of the day driving for a large number of people is being performed largely on auto-pilot
so I think on the whole I'd rather have them indicating by rote than not at all.
but potentially far more done by not signalling when you should. People not signalling their exit on a roundabout for example is one that annoys the hell out of me...