Is the smart braking system built into this i-ACTIVSENSE package unable to detect vehicles crossing over in front of you at 90 degrees perpendicular to your direction of travel? (t-bone collisions)
Something happened to me last night in a parking lot where I was going about 10 mph down the normal one-way direction of traffic down a row, when suddenly a big Suburban abruptly backed out of a parking space from my left across in front of me to move into a parking spot to my right. The older man behind the wheel of the Suburban had his head turned looking out his passenger side window or his backup camera screen the whole time , never looked toward the direction of oncoming traffic and my CX-5's warning and emergency systems did diddly squat. Nothing. I had to panic stop myself as the old man hesitated to complete backing into the other spot and left the front half of his vehicle still stuck halfway out into the lane and when I honked, he finally looked out his driver's side window and probably nearly had a heart attack when he realized what he'd done. Good thing the antilock brakes on the CX-5 do work darn good, but the i-ACTIVSENSE stuff was paying about as much or even less attention to the traffic situation than the old geezer in that Suburban was. I'm beginning to wonder if this so-called safety system package is a farce, or if something is wrong with my new car. The smart cruise control does work good. The automatic headlight dimming and the automatic windshield washers work well too, but from what I've seen so far, first the lane keeping..... and now the emergency braking, suck and are proving utterly worthless.
Something happened to me last night in a parking lot where I was going about 10 mph down the normal one-way direction of traffic down a row, when suddenly a big Suburban abruptly backed out of a parking space from my left across in front of me to move into a parking spot to my right. The older man behind the wheel of the Suburban had his head turned looking out his passenger side window or his backup camera screen the whole time , never looked toward the direction of oncoming traffic and my CX-5's warning and emergency systems did diddly squat. Nothing. I had to panic stop myself as the old man hesitated to complete backing into the other spot and left the front half of his vehicle still stuck halfway out into the lane and when I honked, he finally looked out his driver's side window and probably nearly had a heart attack when he realized what he'd done. Good thing the antilock brakes on the CX-5 do work darn good, but the i-ACTIVSENSE stuff was paying about as much or even less attention to the traffic situation than the old geezer in that Suburban was. I'm beginning to wonder if this so-called safety system package is a farce, or if something is wrong with my new car. The smart cruise control does work good. The automatic headlight dimming and the automatic windshield washers work well too, but from what I've seen so far, first the lane keeping..... and now the emergency braking, suck and are proving utterly worthless.