Kia Sportage and Lane Keeping Assist
The Sportage Owners Manual states (Chapter 7 Page 32) 'When you are towing a trailer or another vehicle turn off Lane Keeping Assist for safety reasons.'
Have any members experienced caravan stability issues towing with Lane Keeping (or Lane Following) Assist on?
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I have a Kia Niro HEV although I don't tow with it. The lane assist does seem to have the habit jolting the steering wheel when it feels you are too near the centre line. Given that cars movements can be multiplied whist towing I can see why they say turn it off. I am not sure I see the sense of lane assist?
David
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I have a Hyundai Santa Fe with Lane Keep Assist.
When I purchased the car and on my first outing, I discovered that it was not as stable as my Sorento when towing the same caravan, a twin axle.
The car's steering 'twitched' all the time, something that it never did when solo.
I resolved this by turning the LKA off, and now do so whenever I tow.
I keep the LKA on when driving solo.
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the lane keeping assist on my bmw x5 is automatically disabled when a trailer is plugged into the 13 pin socket.
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Hi, I was towing with a Kia Sorrento, tried with lane keep on and found it was a bit too sharp on the steering adjustments, i learned there were options to warn only via vibration and audio which i found much better when towing. I now have a Range rover sport and the same applies here, I just turn it off.
I also keep (active) cruise control off, because of sudden braking when someone cuts in the lane too early which causes harsh braking. hope this helps.
Regs: Andy
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We only have lane annoyance on the Tcross, which is not used for towing. Fortunately the Karoq, for towing doesn't have it.
But what intrigues me is what happens when you go abroad with lane assist enabled. Does the direction it tries to pull you differ if driving on the right compared to driving on the left? If so, how does it know which way to pull?
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My understanding is that it works by monitoring the white lines and the surrounding traffic in conjuncton with the blind spot monitoring system. Therefore it should make no difference which side of the road you are driving on.
If you try to cross the centre line, wihout signalling, my system will alert me and try to steer me back into the lane.
It will also 'steer' my car around corners if it thinks that I am not taking the correct direction. Right or left corners are all the same to it.
I have not driven in Europe but can't see why this system would not do the same by sensing that a white line has been crossed and 'tugging' the steering in the appropriate direction.
I stand to be corrected of course!
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It's been a legal requirement for all new cars since July 2022.
The first time it activated on my daughter's car she found it quite alarming (she had to change lanes due to roadworks) as it was quite strong, but now's she's used it and easily steers back the way she wants.
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I had issues with the lane keeping, too. While indicating to change lanes, the car had different ideas and I ended up going straight on instead of changing lanes. After that, the disable button was used on a daily basis.
It's near impossible to use such functions on narrow roads where only one lane exists and pulling almost into the hedge is a regular occurrence to pass oncoming traffic.
I understand completely the situation your daughter was in, Corners. Sometimes these functions aren’t as clever as people think they are 🙁
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I’ve no doubt it’s a huge benefit to those wanting to use their phones while driving, Arch. Not that I’m suggesting anyone here does that, of course.
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According to some simple searching many/some accidents, including those with drivers of many year's driving experiences, are caused by driver fatigue or drowsiness and stray off the road, and/or not paying attention enough to the road, looking elsewhere or perhaps into the car at something...
Yes of course one should always give 100% attention but accidents have happened due to the above, some sadly with tragic results.
Depending on which study you read up on it's reducing accidents by 11% to 21% and tens of thousands of lives every year.
Whatever the number if it saves just one, isn't that enough?
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I find it helpful when travelling for many hours and miles, or should I say kilometers, on M-Ways abroad. Just engage adaptive cruise, lane keeping and any other available driver assistance and relax but keep vigilant. Not for everyone I'm sure, but I like it 😉. Roll on the day when we have full auto-pilot.
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As said there were cones taking all her lane into the next one, also happened when there was a traffic light controlled roadwork talking the flow into the opposite side which was on green so the few cars in front started to move and she followed and it acted once again when she started to cross the lines but this time she was expecting it.
Without being ageist I've noticed a lot my children's friends and other young drivers wouldn't dream of switching it off or I don't see them doing it so perhaps it's a age, or rather number of years driving, thing to do so?
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Perhaps makes folk use there indicators a bit more on motorways, rather than just manoeuvring without signalling.
We have only had a car with it for 7 months (Toyota) and so far have left it on. The beeping can occasionally be a bit annoying if driving close to the centre line due to potholes at the side. However, on our vehicle it just makes the steering heavy and more difficult to turn in that direction, it doesn’t throw you back.
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It’s also really not suited to some roads whereas the type of journeys DD describes lend themselves to doing things the easy way.
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Cars and systems vary. On ours when lane assist is off it does nothing, no steering input or sounds. Off is off! Another system "Driver Alert" monitors, would you believe driver alertness 😀. If it consider I'm losing concentration it sounds an alarm, wobbles the steering and puts a suggestion on the dash that's it time to take a break.
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