Collision Avoidance In Winter

I HATE those things. During TNT with Prime, in a 2021 Pete, it slammed on the brakes twice while climbing a hill. Over what? Those tubular goal post looking interstate signs. Within 6 minutes of the second one, safety was on the phone asking me what kind of boneheaded tailgating I was doing. They looked back at the data, and whoops. Road signs.Y freightliner (2019) has only given me the warning light in red once, but not slammed on the brakes. Let's hope it stays that way.

That is how my old truck worked. With this new one, you can’t override it. Nor can you go faster downhill by holding the pedal down, it just ignores the pedal and applies the Jake brake.

I guess I’ma little confused? I thought those systems were only active in that sense when cruise control was being used?

Nope. I almost never use the CC and these "safety" features will still kick in sometimes. The Collision Avoidance warning is the message I get most often on the dash, usually in construction areas, or in tight alleys behind some Walmart stores

I guess it depends on how each company sets up the system then. Our trucks have it but if you’re on the pedal, you only get lights and buzzers.

Just today my Freightliner gave me the red light and warning alarm for a collision. Don't know why there was nothing around me.

My old truck would pick up steel cable guard rail in a curve outside a conagra in st elmo and stab the brakes on me. Probably happened a dozen times. Thankfully it hasn't happened to me on the interstate at highway speeds.

My old truck was terrible for hitting the brakes for bridges and road signs. My new truck is not as bad. I've never had it hit the brakes when I'm on the pedal, only on cruise control. I've been on the same account as PackRat for two years, basically Montana to New Mexico, with most of the loads in Wyoming and Colorado. The worst part of driving in this region is hauling empties back to the DC on slick roads in the wind.

I can't say I drive any different with the stupid radar brakes on this new truck. Maintain distance, don't drive too fast, don't use cruise control when it's slick. Common sense, really. On the old truck, though, every time I came up to the bridge at 136th Ave coming north out of Denver, I turned off the cruise control and made sure I had enough space around me, because otherwise I was going to get a hard brake.

And for everyone who believes that the radar is going to save you from a collision, I've had two events where cars were suddenly directly in front of me and the radar did jack squat. Really, I consider this equipment to be an additional hazard that I have had to learn to deal with on a daily basis.

I don't have dashcam video of when a Tesla hydroplaned and bounced off the guardrail back into my lane where I hit him head on at 55 mph, but he hit me dead on at the radar and the system never engaged the brakes. I do have dashcam video of a Camaro that cut me off. I hit the brakes, not the radar.

Brake check

Seriously?

When are you going to introduce yourself?