Docwagon1776
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I'm in another European rental car and it's driving me nuts. It's a brand new Volvo XC40, I'm literally the first customer to drive this thing and it's apparent that neither Enterprise nor Volvo shook the bugs out before issuing it to me. It constantly gives me a warning a blind spot detector needs service and a bunch of emergency stuff isn't available, which I have to click "ok" on to see the navigation display again. Then it pops up again later. It takes 4 "ok" presses to clear them all each time. Then even if it was working as expected:
1) I had to disable "smart speed control" as it was on by default. Think of adaptive cruise but it also thinks it can read speed limit signs and will adjust based on the current limit. Sounds good? It reads off ramp signs and thinks it's the new speed limit even if you're still on the interstate. 120 km/h to 40 km/h with a semi up your butt sure sounds fun, right?
2) Adaptive cruise doesn't always notice something isn't in your lane and slows down when you're in the passing lane. No way to turn this all the way off.
3) I always fight the lane keep, I use my whole lane in turns to hit the apex just by instinct. It wants to keep me centered in my lane constantly. Avoid a cyclist? Fight the wheel. Edge to the fog lane because semi is cutting a turn tight? Fight the wheel.
4) Speed limit warning. Constant beep every time it thinks you are going about 6 km/h over what it thinks is the speed limit. Fun on it's own, but even more fun that the speedo is off so that 120 km/h is actually only about 115 km/h... Plus it re-alerts whenever it thinks the speed limit changed.
5) It 'saw' a steep incline in the road and triggered an impending collision warning, including brake application.
6) I opened the door to verify clearance and it put the vehicle in park until I shifted it back in drive.
7) The gear shift is a joy stick and not a shifter. A separate button puts it in park. The guy at the rental place told me just to turn it off to put it in park, I figured it out on my own (like I said, brand new, they don't know how to operate them yet either).
It would be a comfortable and competent midsize crossover if I didn't have to fight the damned thing just to drive it. I rented an econobox with a manual and Enterprise "helpfully" upgraded me about 3 levels to put me in this technological wunderwagon.
Now, rant aside, one really cool feature: When you use the windshield wiper fluid it comes out of the beam that holds the wiper blade and even distributes the fluid as it swipes. No blast in the center from somewhere at hood level, a bunch of little nozzles in the beam itself.
1) I had to disable "smart speed control" as it was on by default. Think of adaptive cruise but it also thinks it can read speed limit signs and will adjust based on the current limit. Sounds good? It reads off ramp signs and thinks it's the new speed limit even if you're still on the interstate. 120 km/h to 40 km/h with a semi up your butt sure sounds fun, right?
2) Adaptive cruise doesn't always notice something isn't in your lane and slows down when you're in the passing lane. No way to turn this all the way off.
3) I always fight the lane keep, I use my whole lane in turns to hit the apex just by instinct. It wants to keep me centered in my lane constantly. Avoid a cyclist? Fight the wheel. Edge to the fog lane because semi is cutting a turn tight? Fight the wheel.
4) Speed limit warning. Constant beep every time it thinks you are going about 6 km/h over what it thinks is the speed limit. Fun on it's own, but even more fun that the speedo is off so that 120 km/h is actually only about 115 km/h... Plus it re-alerts whenever it thinks the speed limit changed.
5) It 'saw' a steep incline in the road and triggered an impending collision warning, including brake application.
6) I opened the door to verify clearance and it put the vehicle in park until I shifted it back in drive.
7) The gear shift is a joy stick and not a shifter. A separate button puts it in park. The guy at the rental place told me just to turn it off to put it in park, I figured it out on my own (like I said, brand new, they don't know how to operate them yet either).
It would be a comfortable and competent midsize crossover if I didn't have to fight the damned thing just to drive it. I rented an econobox with a manual and Enterprise "helpfully" upgraded me about 3 levels to put me in this technological wunderwagon.
Now, rant aside, one really cool feature: When you use the windshield wiper fluid it comes out of the beam that holds the wiper blade and even distributes the fluid as it swipes. No blast in the center from somewhere at hood level, a bunch of little nozzles in the beam itself.
