Cuba

I've only had my A6 for about 3 weeks but already experienced the automatic braking feature which I had been wondering about. I was leaving a client meeting and heading out of a basement garage ramp when it just suddenly slammed on the brakes and stopped dead. Nothing in front of us, quite the adrenaline dump. It felt like we ran into a security gate or something.

It was a ramp that had a metal drainage grate across the angle (start of the ramp) which may have been the culprit but I don't know. Pretty weird since I was mid sentence discussing a car accident I was in years ago when it occurred.

Has anyone else had this happen?

Sportstick

Just wondering, were you on a flat surface, approaching the ramp (ramp angle?), at a "brisk" speed? In essence, was the car "seeing" the ramp, before engaging it?

Cuba

Probably yeah, it slammed on the brakes right when the front tires hit the incline but I wasn't going to fast. I don't know how it decides what to do but the lower radars would have been approaching a decent grade concrete ramp at "eye" level.

Acuransx

I have a /15 3.0T -- wondering if I have this feature -- thinking not since have not had Cuba's experience in 1.5 years of ownership. Wife's Volvo S80 T6 has it (City Safe). Had same experience as Cuba in that car approaching gate arm leading out of office garage -- scared the sh*t out of me. Lesson learned: don't time the gate in the Volvo as embarrassing panic stop may result!


Best,
Jeff

Cuba

Jeff I could be wrong but I think if you have the adaptive cruise control then it has the auto stop.

I've noticed the normally green ACC light will sometimes flash red in traffic when I'm not using ACC, maybe a warning that the car in front is close and moving slower than me. Is this also a warning that my car is considering whether or not to brake for me?

Acuransx

No ACC in my A6. I'm a total dinosaur as sportstick knows all too well. I want a return to *****/buttons/key to put in ignition/manual transmission -- LOL -- I do like power windows however. The fact that a 60K sticker car came without a dipstick made me totally crazy (so I pulled that stupid plug out of the tube and bought a dipstick to stuff in there).


Best,
Jeff

Cuba

I have been for the most part up until this car, nothing like a total lack of electrical gremlins and judging your car's health by sound and feel.

Ricckky

Not sure about the 2013s, but in the 2016s, that red flashing car indicator means you're too close for the automatic stop feature to work. In other words, it won't be able to stop in time and you might park in the trunk of the car in front of you if they stop suddenly.

hhhoffme

Thats neat as I always drive with ACC and sometimes test my self not to touch the breaks at all, in that case it would be nice with a flashing indicator. I assume that is only on 2016? thinking of it, my headup display actually sometimes turn red instead of green in the ACC distance indicator.

Ricckky

Yeah they have a red flashing car icon in the instrument cluster (maybe under the speedometer) and also a red flashing car on the HUD.