Audi Presense - experience

[wolek76]

Hello everyone.
Had the car for two months now. Done a bit of driving on motorways but mainly in London (got 2400miles on the clock already!!!)
And today had a bit of a nasty surprise.
As I was going through the Hyde Park, I was doing 20 - 22 MPH and following the road as it was curving to the left. Nobody behind me nor in front of me either.
Then, as I was at the nearing the apex of the bend, a scooter pops out into view. It was going in opposite direction but naturally turning to his right hence being nearer the centre of the road and leaning towards the turn.
It was normal for a second, and then I heard a Beep of Audi Presense (with red triangle/exclamation mark in the HUD) and the car suddenly slammed on the brakes.... ALL BY ITSELF ....
By the time I realised what happened, everything was back to normal, but believe me that was one scary moment....
I hate to think what would have happened if it was winter and the road was slippery....
Anything I can do/change about this?
I have seen the sensitivity of Presense in MMI, but that's already set to 'Late'...
Not sure I can trust this thing anymore...
Thanks for reading

[M1tchy]

That's not good. Mine (63 plate A7) doesn't react to stationary objects or things coming towards me. Must be an upgraded system on the newer models.

You could ask Audi if they can change something?

As for Icy roads, I assume the traction control etc would take care of that.


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[Nemo78]

Hi Wolek, scary stuff but it's amazing what Presense picks up and doesn't pick up.

On my initial Q I had no end of issues with it and ended up either putting on 'late' or turning off as there were too many false sensing one of which was on the motorway.

I think I recall someone saying in a thread there was a software update available now or soon to fix the sensitivity of Presense etc

Good luck with it all...

[srbsq7]

No issues so far myself. It's gone off once when a kid ran across the road about 20 yards ahead of me when doing 20mph through town but didn't hit the brakes, just woke me up! Like Nemo, I do recall a discussion about a software update to fix presense sensitivity issues and I think it may even have been on the A4 forum?

[andyhud007]

I have had it go off a couple of times and the "worst" one was when I pulled out slightly towards middle of road to pass a parked car.. It thought that was going to be a collision and dabbed the brakes for me. Nothing too serious though, it happens so quick you just keep going

Nemo is right, there is a software update due to sort some "Trigger Happy" Audi Pre-Sense issues. No idea when though

[Q7newbie]

Yeah, in its current guise, PreSense is guaranteed to have bugs.
But overall, it is safe to assume once it's matured, it will be quite impressive.

As for how it performs I have the wet or on icy roads: I can attest to it working cohesively with the ABS and Traction control. It happened on 3 separate occasions this January when I was up Fort William and Cairngorm mountains. It was still a hair-raising experience, but it does last all of a wink of an eye.

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[satyp]

woe.. :-0.. Sounds more like Audi #Sixthsense at this rate..

Hopefully updates are rolled out in a periodic fashion if safety itself is at hand.

Does anyone now if we can register for alerts for such software update releases?.. Or is it simply downright old-Skool call up dealer and twiddle the fingers?..

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[andyhud007]

woe.. :-0.. Sounds more like Audi #Sixthsense at this rate..

Hopefully updates are rolled out in a periodic fashion if safety itself is at hand.

Does anyone now if we can register for alerts for such software update releases?.. Or is it simply downright old-Skool call up dealer and twiddle the fingers?..

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The latter is most cases....

[zollaf]

i wonder how it would go if this wonderful system did an emergency stop when an emergency stop wasnt required and the car behind doesnt stop in time and his dash cam proves the audi was in the wrong and didnt need to stop, whos insurance would pay out ? sounds positively dangerous to me, being a good driver is far better than some computer that can stop the car if it feels like it. thing is, a computer can only scan and see an object, it doesnt know what that object is or what its doing.

[M1tchy]

In the small print it says the driver is responsible at all times. I guess it would be the driver behind as if they can't stop they are too close?


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