Collision detection. Does happen occasionally.

 

Your both talking about different warnings. The 2 car display is in the lower area where ACC speed. lane keeping and the trips are. This is the 'driving too close'.

Neilmanc is talking about a big large warning between the dials, showing a car with radar like lines on all 4 sides. This is the 'collision imminent' warning, sometimes it also slams the brakes on. Had this at 5 mph following a car out of a car park, and pulling away onto an empty roundabout. Never had it in a potential real emergency!

 

And they think that self-driving cars will be safe!

 

I am hazarding a guess at some kind of proximity alarm due to another vehicle coming close?

 

Yes, I have had this, it indicates you are travelling too close to the car in front. I am sure it was 2 car symbols, one behind the other.

 

Thanks. Could have been as the traffic was quite heavy and a numpty pulled in ahead of me from lane 2 to 1 in my safe space so that could have triggered it. The symbol wasn’t on screen long enough for me to get a detailed look so there could have been two cars but it certainly has radar / wifi arc symbols emanating from the car icon

 

Definitely collision detection, I had exactly the same in my 2020 Golf, it got confused by the chevron signs on a bend. On my T-Cross it went loopy when somebody cut in front of me on the motorway with barely a car's length clearance.

 

Exactly the same scenario as me. Thanks

 

Hi there,

Yes I have had this, definitely one car with lines on every side of the car symbol, no idea what its warning about, nothing in the user manual, wish I could help, I used to get this sort of thing all the time on my previous car (Honda HRV) these cars are just too clever.

Wiliam.

 

Yes it is definitely a warning sign with regards to the surrounding traffic.
I get this when backing out on our drive onto the main road or going down my daughters drive ,as the car thinks it is to close to something and jams on the brakes ,very off putting and frightening.
I have tried to calm the warnings with no luck .😩

 

just had the same come up why is there not a page in hand book with them all on explaining what they mean

 

There is isn't there? Too late now to check.

here we go...

 

Have had this last week, a loud high pitched beep and only this on the dash.. there were no cars nearby…

 

There are threads on all the VW forums reporting random spurious collision warnings (which you describe) without a known cause.

 

We have had this warning sign and backing out of our drive occasionally .I think if you have your foot on brake ,this might not happen ,but did the other day and it jammed brakes on !! Very disconcerting and frightening . It must be just the car reacting to the proximity of another vehicle or something ?

 

This happened to me on Tuesday. I was driving along at 30 with the limiter set to 30mph. The brakes came on and stopped the car immediately. There wasn’t anything in front of me. It was very frightening to be stopped at that speed. Lucky the car behind wasn’t close or he might have gone into me. The warning symbol came on and there was a loud noise.
I was able to drive the remaining 2 miles home and called VW assist who came out and checked that it was safe to drive again.

 

a white one like that comes up on mine it seems to be when there is a update to download

 

The same happen to me ! No cars near by . I was the only one on the road …

 

Have you turned down the sensitivity?

 

no it has stopped doing it after being back to vw and they claim they did nothing but re boot the system

 

Honest gov we never touched it....