WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?
This month: the Enyaq’s sign recognition system
Ollie Marriage Sodding radar cruise. Hardly a novel way to start a rant. But this time I’m not having a go at the extreme myopia of the forward vision systems or the learner level lane ricochet that passes for lane keep. You thought that was it, didn’t you? That that was all radar cruise could interfere with. I did. And then the other day the Enyaq spotted a road sign on the M4 and slammed on the brakes. There was a car behind. No harm, no damage, but the driver, quite rightly and vividly, thought I was a fool. The Enyaq saw the 50mph sign for roadworks and reacted, with no awareness or consideration for following traffic. And you can’t turn it off. It’s amateur hour. And I haven’t yet got to the good part. Because it’s somehow reading two or three signs on my commute that aren’t speed limits, but feature the number 100 on them. With predictable results...