Emergency anchors on Golf 8

[Acorn1]

Reversing out of a supermarket car space today, place was murder and the car to my right had parked way too close and two cars waiting to take my space.

Concentrating on not hitting the car to my right and aware of the two cars waiting, my car suddenly felt like it had hit something hard and stopped jolting me forward.

I shat myself, even got out to inspect the damage.

A pedestrian had walked behind me.

Can this be turned off?

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

It's the same on my other half's Golf 7. I was convinced I'd hit a wall, but no, there was some low hanging foilage.

I first thought it was annoying, but on reflection I'd rather be brought to an abrupt halt then hit something. (It does tell you on the dash what to do)

[Monkeylegend]

Acorn1 said:

Reversing out of a supermarket car space today, place was murder and the car to my right had parked way too close and two cars waiting to take my space.

Concentrating on not hitting the car to my right and aware of the two cars waiting, my car suddenly felt like it had hit something hard and stopped jolting me forward.

I shat myself, even got out to inspect the damage.

A pedestrian had walked behind me.

Can this be turned off?

Seems like they did their job and stopped you hitting a pedestrian.

[The Rotrex Kid]

Monkeylegend said:

Acorn1 said:

Reversing out of a supermarket car space today, place was murder and the car to my right had parked way too close and two cars waiting to take my space.

Concentrating on not hitting the car to my right and aware of the two cars waiting, my car suddenly felt like it had hit something hard and stopped jolting me forward.

I shat myself, even got out to inspect the damage.

A pedestrian had walked behind me.

Can this be turned off?

Seems like they did their job and stopped you hitting a pedestrian.

Well, yes, I don’t see why you’d want to turn it off? Imagine if you had and you’d hit the ped!

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

Monkeylegend said:

Seems like they did their job and stopped you hitting a pedestrian.

Reminds me of the insurance claim

"I didn't see the lamp post as it was obscured by pedestrians"

[Acorn1]

Monkeylegend said:

Acorn1 said:

Reversing out of a supermarket car space today, place was murder and the car to my right had parked way too close and two cars waiting to take my space.

Concentrating on not hitting the car to my right and aware of the two cars waiting, my car suddenly felt like it had hit something hard and stopped jolting me forward.

I shat myself, even got out to inspect the damage.

A pedestrian had walked behind me.

Can this be turned off?

Seems like they did their job and stopped you hitting a pedestrian.

LOL! I was gingerly reversing out at less than 1mph, thanks for the help

The way the car reacted was waay OTT, the woman was past my rear in about two seconds, I knew exactly how far away the opposing parked car was.

Edited by Acorn1 on Friday 23 December 19:50

[essayer]

VW call it “manoeuvre braking” and it seems to have done a great job if you haven’t noticed it until now!

[Acorn1]

essayer said:

VW call it “manoeuvre braking” and it seems to have done a great job if you haven’t noticed it until now!

The parking sensors work just fine.

Does anyone know if it can be deactivated or adjusted?

Edited by Acorn1 on Friday 23 December 21:01

[Monkeylegend]

Read the manual

[Monkeylegend]

Acorn1 said:

LOL! I was gingerly reversing out at less than 1mph, thanks for the help

The way the car reacted was waay OTT, the woman was past my rear in about two seconds, I knew exactly how far away the opposing parked car was.

Edited by Acorn1 on Friday 23 December 19:50

The stop was so sudden it shot you forward in your seat and you thought you had hit something hard.

All at less than 1mph

How did it jolt you forward if you were reversing ?

[Whataguy]

You can turn it off on my Mk7.5 - on the infotainment car setup menu under parking sensors, it's maneuver braking.

However, saved me from having the front ripped off the car when exiting a drive and someone thought it was a good idea to drive through a tiny road with parked cars on it at 40mph... on their urgent way to the shop 50yrds up the road!

[Zarco]

Our X3 does this. I do agree it feels very violent. Coupled with the load groan the brakes make as they slam on, it does make you think you actually hit something.

Still on balance I'd rather it did that and save me from an actual cock up.

[Acorn1]

Monkeylegend said:

The stop was so sudden it shot you forward in your seat and you thought you had hit something hard.

All at less than 1mph

How did it jolt you forward if you were reversing

It seems you only commented on here to be condescending or pick an argument.

I've not been here very long but there does appear to be some who inhabit this forum just to try and belittle people - not a good trait.

Thanks for the replies everyone else.

[Monkeylegend]

Not at all, but you clearly didn't see the pedestrian and are making a drama out of a stop from less than 1mph which caused you to "shat" yourself.

If you had been travelling at say 10mph or more and it braked suddenly and unexpectedly, as does appear to be the case with this technology, then I would feel some sympathy, but less than 1mph, that is hardly moving.

Now this would be a good reason to shat yourself and thank your lucky stars.

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

[Tony1963]

Acorn1 said:

It seems you only commented on here to be condescending or pick an argument.

I've not been here very long but there does appear to be some who inhabit this forum just to try and belittle people - not a good trait.

Thanks for the replies everyone else.

The experienced old lags here are used to dealing with all sorts of posts that just don’t make sense. Sometimes the OP disappears when they’re called out, sometimes they stay and argue for fifty pages.

The answer is to try to think about our posts before typing and then pressing Submit. We are all fallible, however. And believe me, I’ve fked up a few times!

[Tony1963]

1mph is roughly 18” per second…

[Acorn1]

To clarify it was the unexpected violence of the stop, that concerned me, I shat myself because I thought I'd hit something.

Anyway, moving on.

Edited by Acorn1 on Saturday 24th December 16:56

[595Heaven]

Acorn1 said:

I shat myself, even got out to inspect the damage.

What a lovely image. How were your pants?

[Monkeylegend]

Acorn1 said:

To clarify it was the enexpected violence of the stop, that concerned me, I shat myself because I thought I'd hit something.

Anyway, moving on.

Or maybe not if your car has anything to do with it.

[Acorn1]

Clearly