Smart City Brake Support" I guess?
Over the almost 2 years I have owned my 2018 CX-9 and monitored this forum, I have only seen very limited discussions regarding our suite of safety systems and how they work (or not) with each other. The other day I had my first experience with (I guess) the autonomous braking (or in Mazda speak: Smart City Brake Support" I guess?).
(In the past 2 years, on maybe 4-5 occasions, while driving in Adaptive Cruise Control and automatically stopping with the traffic in front of me, (either because the car in front changed lanes, or whatever), I have felt like I was about to hit the car in front, and immediately slammed on the brakes while simultaneously getting the message in the heads up display to BRAKE (or whatever it says). Each time I have been left wondering if the car would have braked for me if I hadn't.).
The other day I was caught in bumper to bumper heavy stop and go traffic and found myself searching for an address, looking (way to long) to my left and likely ignoring the traffic in front of me. In an instant as I again looked forward, to my horror, I was about to smash into a vehicle directly in front of me, at perhaps 7-10 mph. It all happened so fast it is difficult to remember exactly what happened, but heres how I remember it (kind of in slow motion). I saw I was about to hit the vehicle, the BRAKE message was already displayed in the HUD, and I started to hit the brakes. As my foot touched the brake pedal, it felt solid as a rock and (I guess) before I could do anything the brakes violently applied, all four wheels (I guess) locked, and we screeched to a complete stop, maybe 2-3 feet from the car in front.
As I say, it all happened so fast, it is very difficult to know exactly what happened, but I know that it felt like as I went to apply the brakes, they were already applied (The brake pedal was already pushed as far down as it will go and felt solid as a rock, with no give in it) and my Mazda was already violently breaking for me.
Or maybe that was just my imagination; all I know for sure is that I didnt smash into that vehicle in front of me!
Over the almost 2 years I have owned my 2018 CX-9 and monitored this forum, I have only seen very limited discussions regarding our suite of safety systems and how they work (or not) with each other. The other day I had my first experience with (I guess) the autonomous braking (or in Mazda speak: Smart City Brake Support" I guess?).
(In the past 2 years, on maybe 4-5 occasions, while driving in Adaptive Cruise Control and automatically stopping with the traffic in front of me, (either because the car in front changed lanes, or whatever), I have felt like I was about to hit the car in front, and immediately slammed on the brakes while simultaneously getting the message in the heads up display to BRAKE (or whatever it says). Each time I have been left wondering if the car would have braked for me if I hadn't.).
The other day I was caught in bumper to bumper heavy stop and go traffic and found myself searching for an address, looking (way to long) to my left and likely ignoring the traffic in front of me. In an instant as I again looked forward, to my horror, I was about to smash into a vehicle directly in front of me, at perhaps 7-10 mph. It all happened so fast it is difficult to remember exactly what happened, but heres how I remember it (kind of in slow motion). I saw I was about to hit the vehicle, the BRAKE message was already displayed in the HUD, and I started to hit the brakes. As my foot touched the brake pedal, it felt solid as a rock and (I guess) before I could do anything the brakes violently applied, all four wheels (I guess) locked, and we screeched to a complete stop, maybe 2-3 feet from the car in front.
As I say, it all happened so fast, it is very difficult to know exactly what happened, but I know that it felt like as I went to apply the brakes, they were already applied (The brake pedal was already pushed as far down as it will go and felt solid as a rock, with no give in it) and my Mazda was already violently breaking for me.
Or maybe that was just my imagination; all I know for sure is that I didnt smash into that vehicle in front of me!