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Tested it. Yeah it disengages on forward. But I think it doesn't work on reverse.
Probably useful for some people but I feel like this auto-hold will create bad habits on good drivers.
Probably useful for some people but I feel like this auto-hold will create bad habits on good drivers.
Am driving the 2017 CX5, with Auto-Hold enabled, the EPB does not come on when I put my ride to "P". I have to manually lift the button to enable the EPB.
Tested it. Yeah it disengages on forward. But I think it doesn't work on reverse.
It works in reverse.
Yeah. Tested it was just about to correct myself. Thanks for correcting me. Have you tried it in drive and reverse when coming from engine stop?It works in reverse.
How do you arrive at that conclusion?
You really must not like the radar cruise control, smart braking, lane assist, blind spot monitor, auto lights and other features that lull the driver into complacency.
I get the feeling that auto hold and EPB are some how related but not the same. In a automatic geared car, when you stop at traffic lights and the gear is still in drive mode and auto hold is activated the car keeps still even when you have stopped pressing on the foot brake. For me that means that there is some kind of clutch and brake activated at the same time in auto hold (in short it disengages the engine and applies a brake).
When you stop your car and use EPB instead, you can not leave your car in drive mode at the same time. It has to be in park or neutral mode. That means there is no clutch activation here (I know that there are no real clutch in automatics but something similar is happening here). In both modes you can drive away without having to disengage auto-hold or EPB manually.
Now why do I think that they are related? Try stopping at the traffic lights with auto hold activated. You will feel some pressure on the foot brake pedal as if something is happening on the brakes. Now activate the EPB and you will see that pressure increases on the brake pedal. So they both apply brakes but to a varying grade. I was very skeptical about all these stopping modes before since I always had manual gear and good old fashioned handbrake lever but I am beginning to like them.
I can*t understand why anyone wouldn*t use auto hold and not using the parking brake is bewildering to me. However, it is the law in Europe that the parking brake must be applied before leaving the car.