⬇ Disable it for your car! ⬇ 7:00 How to Disable - Mercedes 7:20 How to Disable - Volkswagen 7:35 How to Disable - Tesla 7:40 How to Disable - BMW & Mini 8:02 How to Disable - BYD
The EU cant trust us with living our lives the way we want, so they oppress us with their rules. People say Russia or China is bad… but people fail to realise we are being oppressed in Europe, just via a different mechanism…
agreed - lived in contenental Europe for 6 years. cameras were shockingly prevalent. Only Germany has it right on the Autobahn, otherwise it was a nightmare
Slight correction on the legal aspect. The law requires new car *models* to have such systems. It is perfectly legal to keep producing and selling cars of existing type approvals without adding this.
Agree with you - these systems are badly flawed. It's been an issue on cars for several years already - although until now they have usually just flashed a warning on the instruments. I've also had issues with LKA (lane killer assist 😂) and with emergency braking. It's a pain that you have to navigate menus to switch off on every journey. The nanny systems have gone too far - it's like having a learner driver supervise your driving!
I have a 71 reg VW group car with adaptive cruise control. There is one stretch of 70mph road I use frequently with a slip road which has 40mph signs just at the end of the central reservation. The car sees the signs and jams the brakes on. Damn dangerous. I paid for this system and I hate it. My worry is that if the legislation requires the car to be unable to exceed the limit it thinks it is and force cars to slow down by hard braking, this may result in accidents if a following vehicle doesn't have the same info or behaves differenly. Imagine the chaos if your car thinks it is on a 30mph road and everyone else can legally do 60mph.
This speed limit thing is not even the worst thing. In august I switched from a VW golf 7 to a new A class. Since I had the mercedes I had : - 2 times on the highway @ 120km/h a surprise warning for a speedbump. I never seen any speedbump on the HIGHWAY. - At a small chicane and a motorcycle or car coming in the other direction driving at allowed speed, calmly, nothing dangerous. 3 seperate instances the car slammed the brakes and almost got me rear ended. - Reversing in a parking spot where there is but a single bush with a tiny twig sticking out. Car slams the breaks like doing an emergency stop. - etc. ...
That is strange on a few of these points I can help with the last one? I’m currently working on a video for that last one you can toggle that emergency brake off for parking. It has given me a heart attack many times! 😅 Head to Home Settings Assistance Parking And in one of those menus there are three things like close range braking, you can toggle them off and they even stay off as well. Do it and you’ll thank me later 🤓 If not video coming soon in a couple of weeks 👊🏼👊🏼
Sorry to say buddy but thats because Mercedes sucks. I too had an A-class and I hated it, had the same issues as you. Also when the car corrects you when stepping the lane, it uses brakes to correct your steering, which is loud and abrupt and it almost caused me several accidents due to it being so jarring that I thought my tire blew or my axle broke and tried to counter-steer… which almost killed me couple times… I was so happy once I gave it back. Never a Mercedes again.
@@npoleary Thank god! That jolting was horrendous. I always thought my wheels were coming off... But I find Mercedes in general dangerous to drive. Their steering is very light. When I look away for a second and then look back, I always find my car drifting off the road. With for example BMW, I never had this. The car stays in the lane just fine, due to the steering being more heavy and stable. My friends who test drove an A-class call it a "sailboat on wheels" 😂 Same issue I had with the C-class
One problem with any warning, be it speed, low tyre pressure etc is that they when the beeps sounds people will take their eyes of the road to see what it is and sometimes it's some odd symbol in the dash that is not obvious. Another unfortunate side effect is that people just start ignoring all the warning sounds.
Great video Nick and very helpful informing ys of the flaws in these systems and how to turn them off. The big worry in the future is if they link this system with the speed limiter and when detects a new speed limit it automatically limits to the car to new speed limit. The problem is if on a duel carriage way or motorway doing 70mph system detects 20mph speed limit on a parallel road breaks the car frim 70 to 20 there is huge possibility of an accident.
The manufacturers should ALL provide a 'customised settings' page where you can set all your preferences, and then provide a super-short shortcut for that (like holding a button on the steering wheel down as in a couple of the examples). That way the driver can say no to lane keeping assist, no to speed assist, yes to makeup assist, no to butt massage assist, whatever, when they get in the car and all is fine and still legal.
My Smart #1 Brabus recently received an OTA update that allows me to set all settings that default after the car is turned on. Eg lane keep assist, driving mode, brake regen, speed limit warning etc. all selected with just a simple swipe down and click. ❤
Those systems are exactly the reason I'm keeping my old car, which has none of them. I am keeping an eye on the aftermarket coding options. When somebody figures out a way to permanently disable this on certain cars / makes, then I'll consider one of those cars.
French cars used to push the pedal back at you. If you want to go faster, push back otherwise rest foot against the pressure and stay at the limit (slowing if necessary, of course). No annoying beeps, not easy to miss, simple to override. We had a solution, now this ... ?
Hi Nick. The speed system on my S Class regularly initiates the brakes thinking I'm over speeding. I find this particularly annoying. There are locations on the M3 and A31 westbound where a minor road either runs parallel or underneath, to the road I'm on. The brakes are initiated because I'm doing 70 mph having just passed a 40mph speed sign. To prevent this I now either switch the system off in advance of the location or change from cruise control to "limit" in order to prevent sudden braking. I thought it was a Mercedes "thing" but your video clearly informs us its on most new cars thanks to Euro law. At least I now know of another way to switch it off. Ive watch a high number of your videos and learnt so much. Many thanks
Yes I’ve had a lot of messages over the past few months about this speed thing (Mercedes, Tesla, BMW etc) but it’s a regulation thing so they’re all the same. Glad you enjoy the videos! 🤓
We picked up our new Peugeot 208 GT Hybrid on Wednesday, and while the technology in it is great, this speed warning is annoying. If anyone has worked out a shortcut to turn it off in a Peugeot, I'd be forever grateful if you could share it. Nice to meet you by the pool in Kos Nick. Great video.
Thank you! 🙏 Glad you enjoyed this one! 🤓 Yeah good to meet you too! At least the weather was good! Sorry not sure on the Peugeot systems but if I get my hands on one, I’ll check it out!
Those signs can also hide. A "stop" sign got me that way once. Just as I was approaching the intersection, it ducked behind a big tree. Christmas tree lights behind me. Wow, did my insurance rates go up!
Intelligent Speed Assist. I always turn off. ISA it’s not so intelligent, having an audio warning blaring out when on a 70mph road because the car thinks it’s a 10mph. Lane Departure Warning. Always turned off after a number of occasions when it tried to steer me into a cars in the lane next to me and finally when the car tried to steer me into a cyclist. The annoying thing is that these have to be turned off every time I start the car A week ago I had a puncture, having fitted my spare I was unable to turn off the warning saying I had low pressure flashing for 90 miles (In reality my spare was high at 60PSI) The previous week I was driving in Somerset when for no reason the brakes activated and “Braking” appeared on the Head Up Display. The driver behind me was not a happy bunny, the air turned blue.
My BMW warning is set to flash but no sound and that’s ok, but I regularly find it showing the wrong speed limit. I tend to use cruise control set at a couple of mph over the limit which results in the speed limit sign not flashing. The lane assist feature was vicious, so I have set to the mildest level, this tugging at the steering wheel if it thinks you are wandering towards a white line. Worst of all is the crash avoidance system which actively brakes and ‘shouts’ at you with an alarm and the dash turning red if you drive too quickly through a series of tight bends. Scares you to death.
That's why I'm sticking to cars I can tune myself. Had a Mercedes for 10 days, the safety distance warning blinking did my head in (been driving 33 years, one parking ticket to my record)
in Poland,Europe problem is that crossroad will remove speed limit, and no sign is needed for that, must most cars does not know about it and those only read signs. so there is situation with 30 speed limit for 200 meters that is naturally canceled by next crossroad but car is beeping constantly forever or until it reads next speed limit sign somewhere
Thanks Nick, great video, great idea for a topic. What concerns me is that sometime in the future this information will be sent to the traffic department and then one would not be able to renew your license because it would say you have exceeded the speed limit 147 times this year, renewal application denied!!! 😅😅
Thank you! 🙏 Yes…I’ve heard in (I think it was the USA) some insurance companies were taking data from cars and increasing people’s premiums?! Because of the way they were driving…if that happened here in the UK, that would cause an uproar! You have a very good point though!
@@npoleary Fortunately, it's voluntary here in the US - you sign up and get a discount as long as you keep the dongle on your OBDII port AND it doesn't record any speeding, hard acceleration or hard braking. Of course, if you need to do any of those things to escape an accident, tough luck. Also here in the US we can turn that stuff off and it STAYS off. I find Lane Keeping Assist doesn't work well and is quite annoying so that gets shut off right away. In the Mercedes I leave the speed warning on but turn off the audio portion. I don't mind the occasional flashing of the speed limit sign, but the beeping has to go.
@JackBeckman, yeah it varies so much! Wish it would stay off. I have to turn it off on car reviews, it can randomly beep and then every one accuses me of speeding. Or I say it’s the car and people think there’s a problem with the car, it’s just how the tech works and due to the variations of driving as I mentioned in the video, it might not always work At least now I have a video to send people to if they ask 😅 well I will do when it goes live! 🤓
Adding insult to injury is BMW over-reporting the actual speed by 3-5kph. You can be just inching up to an actual limit and the thing will alert. (Dealing with this on an Ineos here in the US as well, which as far as I can tell is using BMW-type logic.) It is mind numbingly idiotic to not let you silence it permanently. Perhaps aftermarket hackers will eventually be able to give us all relief. I have no problem with a visual-only alert - it's actually quite helpful - but of course we already have that more accurately provided by Waze, etc.
Nice demo of the systems. I drive older cars without these gadgets, so don't experience this hell. The engineer in me wants to cry at the design and concept of these systems. Didn't anyone think about the very common real-world scenarios pointed out here? Cameras and computer vision to read roads signs is always going to be a really difficult nut to crack reliably. Did they just test them on test roads which are dead straight in perfect weather with unobscured signs? If the designers of these systems did not anticipate the flaws, then they shouldn't be doing that sort of work. If they were forced in implement these systems based on management, sales, the powers that be (who actually deemed these to be possible solutions?), then they should have grown a pair and said it isn't a practical solution. These so-called safety features and driver assistance seem to actually make it more dangerous and impair driving. Do people who come up with these ideas even drive?
Picking up my new Hyundai Tucson in 2 weeks and all you have to do to disable all the noises is press mute button for 3 seconds but you have to do it every time you start the car
Another great video Nick. Both of my 23 Mercedes have that feature, and I have turned the audio portions off. It still shows me the road signs and flashes if I’m going faster than I should, which is not often. Off-topic we are looking at a 25 GLC 300 E. I have senior videos on the Mercedes E’s, is it worth it to get the hybrid? Or save some money and stick with just gas.
Thank you! And thanks for sharing 🤓 For a plug-in hybrid, a couple of questions: - Do you have off road parking at home (to charge overnight) - Would you be willing to install a charger / get a charger installed? - What’s your average daily mileage? If you can’t do any of the above or you have high daily mileage, it can still work, it’ll just mean it’ll take a bit more work. In the most ideal world, you wake up every day, fully charged, and drive within the car’s electric range (or most of it) and charge it back up each night to see the most savings. When you’re on electric it could be half the cost of fuel. So then it’s just a balancing act of if it’s worth spending more on a plug-in hybrid vs an ICE car. But some models are the same price which is cool!
@@npoleary Sorry for the delay. We have 3 car garage with our new Mercedes, however this one would be on the driveway, so yes. Our 3rd bay is pre-wired for an EV. Daily mileage is an embarrassing 10 miles. We both work from home, and only use a car for errands. So I think it could work out just fine.
Renault have a page of personal settings that you always want switched off. When you get in there is a physical button you press twice and it switches off all those you selected off ... the result is total silence, no bings, bongs or wrestling of the steering wheel. They also use native Google Maps
I have the A class with hud where I have the Road max sign along with my speed. Had the car a year now and it has never let me down. It even works on temp road works along with the live traffic feed. The only thing I did was mute the sound. I now only get the flashing max sign on my windscreen if I go over the limit, but it only flashes. Twice. Can’t fault it.
I do not mind if it tells me I am speeding when I am actually speeding but it seems to not know the difference between an actual speed sign and one telling you of the speed a few miles ahead.
Same I’m all for tech like this, if it’s accurate 99% of the time. But the fact is everyone I’ve spoken knows when a car has this as it gets it wrong a few times! Most of time it’s fine but that 20% of the time is enough for it to be annoying.
That is not even the worst "assist system". My new Skoda Octavia VRS does not have speed assist but does have lane assist, which is horrible. The first time I drove the car I was on a narrow main road. A lorry came towards me straddling the centre line, so I moved over to the extreme left edge of the road and lane assist tried its best to push me into the path of the lorry. Its not just stupid on narrow UK main and B roads, it is downright dangerous. Its easy, but annoying to turn it off, but you have to do so every time you start the engine. Perhaps I should buy an OBD11 device to turn it off permanently? Maybe the device could also turn off speed alert?
I have been dreading this. I have an EQE on the way to replace my 2022 C-class which predates this speed warning requirement. Good to know that I can just hold the volume down button on the steering wheel to disable it.
@@npoleary Really looking forward to it. It was the EQE or the i4. I like the EQE exterior and particularly the interior better than the BMW. Charge point has been sorted for a while. My wife used to drive an e-Golf but now has an iX1. Have you bought a Model 3 yet? 😎
Ah nice! Haha don’t! 😅 Model 3 standard is under £40k which means it avoids the Road Fund Licence in the UK…👌🏼 If EV’s continue as they do, some of them are a lot more affordable than they were a few years ago, they’re getting there!
My December 23 A class went in for fuse replacement. I got a brand new one as courtesy. Omfg it was annoying on the motorway, getting beeped at every time I overtook or got overtook. And the binging…. Let’s face it everyone does 75-80 in the U.K.
After market will have a fix for it i had a BMW M135i a few years ago and had the stop start coded so you have to turn it on if you want it not turn it off if you dont.
It’s not quite the same system of previous model cars. This is the fact that beeping automatically re-enables every time you start the car and you have to turn it off every time if you don’t want it. Yours will be the same as mine where it will stay off if you want and won’t re-enable automatically.
yes its'annoying that haunting sound on the Mercedes on my 24 EQS, however what I find more annoying is having to start the in built in dash camera to record every time i start a journey why Mercedes do that and other car manufacturers give you the option to start it automatically is beyond me, I just know it will be that one time where I forget to activate it when it was needed the most.
My wife got caught out on this, but in a different way. She was so used to it's beeping and then adjusting her speed that she began to rely on the system as a way of letting her know when she was exceeding the speed limit. Sadly (?), the system failed to recognise a speed sign, and she only found out about it when she received her speeding fine. OK, so she has no defence, she should have been aware - but before you all throw stones, how many of us are perfect? All I am trying to say is that these systems may be starting to affect our driving behaviour with, perhaps, unforeseen consequences?
@@npoleary Agreed. I'm old-fashioned and believe having the ability to reverse park my car is a skill that I don't want to lose. Hence, I won't use the auto park on my GLA. It's not just about parking, it's about being able to drive my car, competently, in reverse and having a feel for how the car behaves when going backwards. However, I totally accept that others will disagree with me. I think these issues would make for a good video.
That shows you what a bad idea this technology is. Your wife should have been reading the speed limit signs with her own eyes herself, so she would have known what the limits were. All this tech does is become a middle-man badly reading the signs for you and often giving you conflicting information - usually overloading the driver extra contradictory information. I often see drivers going at speeds well below the limit when it would be safe and normal to be going much faster. I do wonder whether they are now relying, and trusting, the tech to tell them the limit without looking for the road signs themselves?
130kph is the dry cycle for the car wash, that’s how the water gets off the car 👀 Joking aside that is quite a high speed limit for in the city somewhere, wonder where it gets that from?
My 2021 Mazda often reads the max speed limit signs on the back of trucks and farm vehicles so I can drive many many kilometres on the freeway before it gets corrected by a proper sign. Also the end of speed limit signs after a roadworks are often badly placed or even absent, same problem, it may be fifty kilometre or more before it gets corrected. Luckily the beep can be permanently. turned off but it is still annoying to see it on the HUD.
Haha I’ve heard of cars doing this, I’ve tried to get my car to do it but it hasn’t. I can understand why it might do it though with the back of trucks and lorries 🚛 😅
Driving home after collecting my 24 plate Mazda I came upon some roadworks. Passing through them the system failed to pick up the correct speed limit. The HUD was showing 30mph but the limit was actually 60mph. The warning bleeps drove me insane as I couldn't remember how to turn them off.
I’m sticking with older cars. I don’t know why a bloke sat in an office in Brussels needs to decide how fast I want to get to work in Bristol on Tuesday morning in October. If I want to do 40 in a 30, I know I’m doing it. I don’t need a bong
I don’t agree with speeding…however… I will say that some speeds for roads are far slower than they should be, reducing speed limits down to a snails pace. I sound like a boy racer, far from it in my 1.3L petrol! But some roads are just a lot slower than they used to be and it causes traffic tailbacks because cars aren’t flowing fast enough
In the US fortunately we don't get the MBUX voice alerting to exceeding the speed, but the speed limit icon annoyingly blinks when exceeding the speed limit.
My case in point with the national speed limit on country roads ! The government contradictions are boundless. Who in their right minds would go at 60mph on a very narrow country lane where you have mud & leaves on the road & farmers tractors etc along with the other maniac coming at 60 the other way ! The mind boggles.
@@npoleary I have noticed very recently that it is 20mph through villages & rightly so. But then changes up to 40,50 & 60 on roads that are just not up to them kind of speeds ! Ridiculous !
Yeah seems odd…I know it’s the “speed limit” but as you say some roads are physically impossible to do that. And yet a clear stretch of motorway we’re limited to 70mph
The EU safety bings and bongs are becoming far too intrusive. We don’t really have the proper tech to do it properly yet. Fortunately the speed recognition on my EV just flashes a circular sign if you are going too fast. It does not recognise overhead speed signs. Sometimes it suggests it has no idea.
I have a Vw ID.3 and even tho mine is turned off by the method you showed it still gets confused very quickly. one thing i have found is time altered speed limits play havoc with it, The car reads the lower speed for use 24:7 365 . At one school all in very close proximity is 3 different speed limits , Imagine what that does 😂 If i am not alert i can go from 30 mph - 5 mph ( The latter is within the school grounds and cars will read the sign in the school grounds entrance showing that limit.
If you watched the video, you would have seen that the car's speed detectors read the limits incorrectly, so you'll get bonged even when sticking to the real speed limit.
Hi nick, is there any way that i can increase the volume of my indicators for my Merc Cla 2024 model. I think the indicator volume is very low. sometimes, i don't even realise that i turned on or turned off the indicator.
You should not force on a system where it does not work well. Even the manuals generally say something along the lines of "Dont rely on this tech as its not great and you cant blame us" so if the car manufacturers are saying it a nice idea but not reliable enough then it should not be forced on. Enable it be default when the car is sold but allow users to turn it off or perhaps ever few months a message to say are you sure you still want this tech off.
I try to remember before I set off tonturn off the bing but not the warning. The Android Auto using waze bings anyway, looking for a way to disable that too. Do you know ? Sorry to butt in on this but I found a setting to ask which mode you want to drive in, I did set it to ask but ut never does. I have a 24, GlC e hybrid.
Oh warning’s fine I don’t mind that, and I wouldn’t mind the bing it it was accurate 99% of the time. It’s just it’s not, it’s more like 80% which means it’s annoying. On the Waze app (phone, not the car) Open Waze Menu (top left) Underneath your Name, tap View Profile Settings Alerts & Reports Speedometer Toggle off “Alert when speeding” For the mode, I’ve seen that before, when I’ve enabled it, it produces a pop out banner a bit like a text message on a phone on the top of the screen when you turn it on each day. I can’t remember though if you had to tap on your profile first.
Not sure you can add it to the favourites menu but why would you want to? I explain in the video, that simply tapping the screen turns it off. Or hold the mute button. If you can add it to the favourites menu it’ll add an extra step
On my car you can mute it by the ways you mentioned but still flashes if you go above said speed limit which is annoying especially in the HUD the only way you can stop from flashing is in settings menu ,hence why I wondered if you can add as a favourite .keep up the great content Nick
Oh I see the yes the flashing will still happen. I was considering making a video about the favourites menu, like all the things you could do with it 🤓
Thanks for the tips, Nick. Can you review an onboard DashCam on a Mercedes? For years, I have been using an external Dashcam (they are awesome tools), but I am considering getting one with my next new car.Thanks.
I have at least a couple times over the last few years, newest review of it was this year 🙏 ruclips.net/video/xkXyOzoLpO0/видео.htmlsi=t1kAh980ReqA5Ohp Glad you enjoy the tips and tricks!
There is the opposite issue of being in a 60 limit and driving past a poorly aligned side road limit sign such as a 40. The car then thinks you’re installing speeding. Some people see this and be too dumb for their own good brake down to 40. This is potentially very dangerous.
Very true! 🤓 Driving is very complex so all the car is looking for is a speed sign. Most of the time it will pick up the direction of your travel but across the various manufacturers I cover, I still have seen them get it wrong so it’s not perfect.
Gotta say my new Skoda has this feature, and it’s fine, a discreet little "plip" not too insistent, indeed I might not hear it sometimes. And yes it’s frustrating when for whatever reason the system thinks the limit is lower than it actually is. But I have no need, nor desire to turn it off.
Fair enough, when I review a car though I have to have it off People will assume: - Either I’m speeding or - There’s something wrong with that exact car Neither of which are true as all cars have these days, it’s just annoying. In my opinion either the accuracy needs to be improved or have the option to have it off permanently if people want.
@@npoleary me too! 😀 On the back seat, or if the passenger seat folds back enough. Otherwise the review isn't really complete. More reviewers should share your attitude to "getting the job done" nudge nudge, wink wink.
If it can be turned off permanently there is no point in fitting it. It does need to be made to work properly. In the meantime I look forward to the increase in value of my pre 2024 car.
Speed limits are useless anyways. People who cause accident due to over speeding, never follow them. Its only an inconvenience to people who follow the rules. A person who respects the roads and others on it will know how fast they must go on any road based on apparent conditions without causing any damage to others using it. New tech features are getting more and more annoying.
Just got my new EQB and it has this annoying system on it. Was hoping you were gong to say how to permanently disable it. Well disappointed you can’t. ‘spose I’ll get used to it. 😠
Haha Does this not count as a modification though? My question with this, do you have to label the car as modified now through insurance? And, surely this would now affect a car manufacturer’s warranty as you are modifying car’s original specification. Maybe after the warranty’s run out or something…
I have a Mazda cx60 and I can turn the sound off and it stays off thank god and the reason is as I turn out of my road for a good mile it says I am in a 20mph zone and in my heads up the speed limits flashes but the speed is 30mph now I like the speed warning and telling me the speed but when it is wrong omg it would send me insane if I could not turn it off.
Ah fair enough, yes you can turn it off on new cars this year but it defaults to on after turning the car off and back on. I wouldn’t mind it if it was accurate 99% of the time, but 80% of the time becomes annoying and more dangerous as you’re constantly having to toggle it off. I know I’m not the only one who experiences that! 😅
@@npoleary Hi Nick I know it always come back on each time you get back into car but the way the new Scenic is done is by a manual switch which means you don’t have a long way of going into control panel each time which takes three or four steps each time
Comand is just as bad and has it's problems as you say. If anyone wants to improve road safety it would be a good idea to have decent road surface with no pot hole. The warning noise is a distraction and is dangerous!
I’m all for it, as I actually drive on a limiter (that I set) most of the time. Cars are very smooth these days and you can easily wander above the speed limit 😅 However…it doesn’t get it right sometimes, which then means on multiple occasions you’re looking down to turn it off. Although I will admit, models like Mercedes, BWM and Mini have a one button hold to turn it off so that could be muscle memory, so that’s pretty good 👍🏼
My car has a speed limit indicator it just changes colour, does nothing else 🤣😂 I can set my speed limiter or put it on active cruise, which I can set to the limit, but appart from that nothing else 🧐
The simple answer is for all cars to use gps & make them update every minute rather than cameras to read street signs, then govern the vehicle's max speed in accordance to the max speed of the road the vehicle is travelling on.
I often drive with a speed limiter on, just stops me accidentally speeding 🤓 If it updated automatically and got it right *every time* then I wouldn’t mind that. It’s the fact it can get it wrong :/
GPS isn't always accurate, and the speed limit database would also have to be very accurate and up-to-date (even taking into account roadworks). Cars will also need to be able to connect to a mobile network quickly at all times, which would be very difficult. There's so many flaws in that idea, I'm sorry.
If you turn off a safety feature, then have an RTC, will your insurers ‘read this back’ and then reject a claim due to your ‘contribution’ to the failure? Be interesting to see if your action is recorded!
Depends on the terms & conditions of car insurance on the policy. I certainly haven’t seen anything like that on my own car’s policy or any policy I’ve ever had. However…when I’ve taken a test drive in a dealer before, I had noted that in their T’s & C’s it did state not to turn off driving assist systems. Although I would imagine this is more for brake assists systems not speed warning. But good point though!
Although these so-called safety features seem to make the car more dangerous. I wonder what insurers do if one of this driver interference devices is a contributing factor towards a RTC (e.g. it slams on the brakes unexpectedly)?
@@davem9204 agree. Mine tries to brake when there is a parked car on the bend of a narrow road when you try to drive past. It thinks you’re trying to drive into it.
The implementation or law is shit. I would accept it if they had at least 10% margin at low speed and 20% at high speed on the speed limit. Drove a new BMW in Portugal for 40 days and as soon as you go 1km over it starts warning. In cities I normally drive the speed limit (40 or 50 or 60Km/h) but sometimes I go to a couple of km above and I do not want it beeping all the time. On Highways I like to drive around 20km above speed limit, so around 140Km/h. Even after disabling it will enable automatically after some driving 1h or so. It´s completely stupid and it will desensitise people. Why is UK implementing this as well? Brexit and all.... hehehehe....
how long before cars start setting the cabin temperature to what the EU consider to be best each time you turn the engine on? 🤣 or have an opinion on the safest radio station and make that the default each ignition press despite what you were listening to when you parked up 🤣
I’d agree with this 100% if the system was accurate 99% of the time but sadly it isn’t. Far from it. In almost every journey on a car that has it regardless of the manufacturer, it will most likely show the incorrect speed on the car somewhen. If it was accurate then yeah! Agreed! Speed limits are there for a reason 👍🏼
Because the cars are built in the EU, so follow their regulations; and it's a lot easier to copy their existing policies than going through the hassle of drafting a load of new rules. Of course, if the UK was still in the EU it could have influence over those rules.
The maximum permitted speed on UK motorways is 70 MPH. The law applies to everyone. Anyone exceeding the limit should be sent for a free holiday in a North Korean labour camp.
My thought is, I’m 53 years old, I’ve lived through all those decades where stupid stuff like this didn’t exist. The boneheads in the EU should stop this nanny behavior. I am perfectly able to watch myself thank you, get lost!!
Buddy, you need to sit closer to the wheel. Your arms are fully stretched out when you sit in your chair… you even put your shoulders forward to compensate…
Haha thanks! But I’m a bit special I have long legs! Always mention this in my reviews of cars but didn’t need to mention it in this video. If I sit any closer my legs will touch the steering wheel. Just me I’m afraid 😅
⬇ Disable it for your car! ⬇
7:00 How to Disable - Mercedes
7:20 How to Disable - Volkswagen
7:35 How to Disable - Tesla
7:40 How to Disable - BMW & Mini
8:02 How to Disable - BYD
The sad thing is that even if you disable the in-cabin warning, 'they' could still, and are, possible collecting data to sell to brokers. 😪😪
Let’s hope not! 🤞🏼
EU needs to relax with this dumb ass rules
Agreed. Have you seen what they’ve done with Apple recently and their iOS?
The EU cant trust us with living our lives the way we want, so they oppress us with their rules. People say Russia or China is bad… but people fail to realise we are being oppressed in Europe, just via a different mechanism…
agreed - lived in contenental Europe for 6 years. cameras were shockingly prevalent. Only Germany has it right on the Autobahn, otherwise it was a nightmare
Slight correction on the legal aspect. The law requires new car *models* to have such systems. It is perfectly legal to keep producing and selling cars of existing type approvals without adding this.
Agree with you - these systems are badly flawed. It's been an issue on cars for several years already - although until now they have usually just flashed a warning on the instruments. I've also had issues with LKA (lane killer assist 😂) and with emergency braking. It's a pain that you have to navigate menus to switch off on every journey. The nanny systems have gone too far - it's like having a learner driver supervise your driving!
Haha Lane Killer Assist 😂
Not heard that one before 😅
I have a 71 reg VW group car with adaptive cruise control. There is one stretch of 70mph road I use frequently with a slip road which has 40mph signs just at the end of the central reservation. The car sees the signs and jams the brakes on. Damn dangerous. I paid for this system and I hate it.
My worry is that if the legislation requires the car to be unable to exceed the limit it thinks it is and force cars to slow down by hard braking, this may result in accidents if a following vehicle doesn't have the same info or behaves differenly. Imagine the chaos if your car thinks it is on a 30mph road and everyone else can legally do 60mph.
Yeah let’s hope that doesn’t happen! 🤔
This speed limit thing is not even the worst thing.
In august I switched from a VW golf 7 to a new A class.
Since I had the mercedes I had :
- 2 times on the highway @ 120km/h a surprise warning for a speedbump. I never seen any speedbump on the HIGHWAY.
- At a small chicane and a motorcycle or car coming in the other direction driving at allowed speed, calmly, nothing dangerous.
3 seperate instances the car slammed the brakes and almost got me rear ended.
- Reversing in a parking spot where there is but a single bush with a tiny twig sticking out. Car slams the breaks like doing an emergency stop.
- etc. ...
That is strange on a few of these points
I can help with the last one? I’m currently working on a video for that last one you can toggle that emergency brake off for parking. It has given me a heart attack many times! 😅
Head to
Home
Settings
Assistance
Parking
And in one of those menus there are three things like close range braking, you can toggle them off and they even stay off as well.
Do it and you’ll thank me later 🤓
If not video coming soon in a couple of weeks 👊🏼👊🏼
Sorry to say buddy but thats because Mercedes sucks. I too had an A-class and I hated it, had the same issues as you. Also when the car corrects you when stepping the lane, it uses brakes to correct your steering, which is loud and abrupt and it almost caused me several accidents due to it being so jarring that I thought my tire blew or my axle broke and tried to counter-steer… which almost killed me couple times… I was so happy once I gave it back. Never a Mercedes again.
They’ve changed the way lane assist works on newer models. No more harsh jolting! 🙏
Still is enabled by default though 😢
@@npoleary Thank god! That jolting was horrendous. I always thought my wheels were coming off... But I find Mercedes in general dangerous to drive. Their steering is very light. When I look away for a second and then look back, I always find my car drifting off the road. With for example BMW, I never had this. The car stays in the lane just fine, due to the steering being more heavy and stable. My friends who test drove an A-class call it a "sailboat on wheels" 😂 Same issue I had with the C-class
One problem with any warning, be it speed, low tyre pressure etc is that they when the beeps sounds people will take their eyes of the road to see what it is and sometimes it's some odd symbol in the dash that is not obvious. Another unfortunate side effect is that people just start ignoring all the warning sounds.
Very true!
Luckily the text is usually simplified and not a paragraph long 🤓
Great video Nick and very helpful informing ys of the flaws in these systems and how to turn them off. The big worry in the future is if they link this system with the speed limiter and when detects a new speed limit it automatically limits to the car to new speed limit. The problem is if on a duel carriage way or motorway doing 70mph system detects 20mph speed limit on a parallel road breaks the car frim 70 to 20 there is huge possibility of an accident.
The manufacturers should ALL provide a 'customised settings' page where you can set all your preferences, and then provide a super-short shortcut for that (like holding a button on the steering wheel down as in a couple of the examples). That way the driver can say no to lane keeping assist, no to speed assist, yes to makeup assist, no to butt massage assist, whatever, when they get in the car and all is fine and still legal.
Butt massage assist 😂
That would be a good idea though, one button for your preferences 🙏🤓
@@npoleary AFAIK - Renault are doing this now
My Smart #1 Brabus recently received an OTA update that allows me to set all settings that default after the car is turned on. Eg lane keep assist, driving mode, brake regen, speed limit warning etc. all selected with just a simple swipe down and click. ❤
That’s cool! 😎
Those systems are exactly the reason I'm keeping my old car, which has none of them. I am keeping an eye on the aftermarket coding options. When somebody figures out a way to permanently disable this on certain cars / makes, then I'll consider one of those cars.
French cars used to push the pedal back at you. If you want to go faster, push back otherwise rest foot against the pressure and stay at the limit (slowing if necessary, of course). No annoying beeps, not easy to miss, simple to override. We had a solution, now this ... ?
Hmm interesting not experienced that before, wonder if they still have that?
I'm French, never heard of that.
Hi Nick. The speed system on my S Class regularly initiates the brakes thinking I'm over speeding. I find this particularly annoying. There are locations on the M3 and A31 westbound where a minor road either runs parallel or underneath, to the road I'm on. The brakes are initiated because I'm doing 70 mph having just passed a 40mph speed sign. To prevent this I now either switch the system off in advance of the location or change from cruise control to "limit" in order to prevent sudden braking. I thought it was a Mercedes "thing" but your video clearly informs us its on most new cars thanks to Euro law. At least I now know of another way to switch it off. Ive watch a high number of your videos and learnt so much. Many thanks
Yes I’ve had a lot of messages over the past few months about this speed thing (Mercedes, Tesla, BMW etc) but it’s a regulation thing so they’re all the same.
Glad you enjoy the videos! 🤓
That's a bit more than annoying, that's down right dangerous.
We picked up our new Peugeot 208 GT Hybrid on Wednesday, and while the technology in it is great, this speed warning is annoying. If anyone has worked out a shortcut to turn it off in a Peugeot, I'd be forever grateful if you could share it.
Nice to meet you by the pool in Kos Nick. Great video.
Thank you! 🙏
Glad you enjoyed this one! 🤓
Yeah good to meet you too! At least the weather was good!
Sorry not sure on the Peugeot systems but if I get my hands on one, I’ll check it out!
@@npoleary appreciated.
New video (at least) every Friday 👀 🙏
Those signs can also hide. A "stop" sign got me that way once. Just as I was approaching the intersection, it ducked behind a big tree. Christmas tree lights behind me. Wow, did my insurance rates go up!
Oh no! 😢
Intelligent Speed Assist. I always turn off. ISA it’s not so intelligent, having an audio warning blaring out when on a 70mph road because the car thinks it’s a 10mph.
Lane Departure Warning. Always turned off after a number of occasions when it tried to steer me into a cars in the lane next to me and finally when the car tried to steer me into a cyclist. The annoying thing is that these have to be turned off every time I start the car
A week ago I had a puncture, having fitted my spare I was unable to turn off the warning saying I had low pressure flashing for 90 miles (In reality my spare was high at 60PSI)
The previous week I was driving in Somerset when for no reason the brakes activated and “Braking” appeared on the Head Up Display. The driver behind me was not a happy bunny, the air turned blue.
My BMW warning is set to flash but no sound and that’s ok, but I regularly find it showing the wrong speed limit. I tend to use cruise control set at a couple of mph over the limit which results in the speed limit sign not flashing. The lane assist feature was vicious, so I have set to the mildest level, this tugging at the steering wheel if it thinks you are wandering towards a white line. Worst of all is the crash avoidance system which actively brakes and ‘shouts’ at you with an alarm and the dash turning red if you drive too quickly through a series of tight bends. Scares you to death.
That's why I'm sticking to cars I can tune myself. Had a Mercedes for 10 days, the safety distance warning blinking did my head in (been driving 33 years, one parking ticket to my record)
in Poland,Europe problem is that crossroad will remove speed limit, and no sign is needed for that, must most cars does not know about it and those only read signs. so there is situation with 30 speed limit for 200 meters that is naturally canceled by next crossroad but car is beeping constantly forever or until it reads next speed limit sign somewhere
Thanks Nick, great video, great idea for a topic. What concerns me is that sometime in the future this information will be sent to the traffic department and then one would not be able to renew your license because it would say you have exceeded the speed limit 147 times this year, renewal application denied!!! 😅😅
Thank you! 🙏
Yes…I’ve heard in (I think it was the USA) some insurance companies were taking data from cars and increasing people’s premiums?! Because of the way they were driving…if that happened here in the UK, that would cause an uproar!
You have a very good point though!
Exactly, I have heard the same thing. People are having their driving data sold, and are struggling hugely to get insurance cover. Scary!!
@@npoleary Fortunately, it's voluntary here in the US - you sign up and get a discount as long as you keep the dongle on your OBDII port AND it doesn't record any speeding, hard acceleration or hard braking. Of course, if you need to do any of those things to escape an accident, tough luck.
Also here in the US we can turn that stuff off and it STAYS off. I find Lane Keeping Assist doesn't work well and is quite annoying so that gets shut off right away. In the Mercedes I leave the speed warning on but turn off the audio portion. I don't mind the occasional flashing of the speed limit sign, but the beeping has to go.
@JackBeckman, yeah it varies so much! Wish it would stay off.
I have to turn it off on car reviews, it can randomly beep and then every one accuses me of speeding. Or I say it’s the car and people think there’s a problem with the car, it’s just how the tech works and due to the variations of driving as I mentioned in the video, it might not always work
At least now I have a video to send people to if they ask 😅 well I will do when it goes live! 🤓
@@JackBeckman- Not if you buy an Aston Martin DB12
It is the most irritating function on my GLE however your hint on how to disable via the mute button will be my go to every time.
Automation technology will never be perfect which is why we can't rely on it.
Nick, how do u get notified in mbux merc , when drive assist is dis engaged. just like the tesla
For most driving assistant icons on Mercedes,
If they are grey, they are off, if they are green they on 🤓
No sounds compared to Tesla though 😅
@@npoleary they should add sound, so u don't crash, , bcoz can't keep checking if green or red, lol
Adding insult to injury is BMW over-reporting the actual speed by 3-5kph. You can be just inching up to an actual limit and the thing will alert. (Dealing with this on an Ineos here in the US as well, which as far as I can tell is using BMW-type logic.) It is mind numbingly idiotic to not let you silence it permanently. Perhaps aftermarket hackers will eventually be able to give us all relief. I have no problem with a visual-only alert - it's actually quite helpful - but of course we already have that more accurately provided by Waze, etc.
Nice demo of the systems. I drive older cars without these gadgets, so don't experience this hell.
The engineer in me wants to cry at the design and concept of these systems. Didn't anyone think about the very common real-world scenarios pointed out here? Cameras and computer vision to read roads signs is always going to be a really difficult nut to crack reliably. Did they just test them on test roads which are dead straight in perfect weather with unobscured signs? If the designers of these systems did not anticipate the flaws, then they shouldn't be doing that sort of work. If they were forced in implement these systems based on management, sales, the powers that be (who actually deemed these to be possible solutions?), then they should have grown a pair and said it isn't a practical solution.
These so-called safety features and driver assistance seem to actually make it more dangerous and impair driving. Do people who come up with these ideas even drive?
Picking up my new Hyundai Tucson in 2 weeks and all you have to do to disable all the noises is press mute button for 3 seconds but you have to do it every time you start the car
Ah that’s good to know! Not reviewed a Hyundai yet (never say never) but good to know if I do! 🤓
Another great video Nick. Both of my 23 Mercedes have that feature, and I have turned the audio portions off. It still shows me the road signs and flashes if I’m going faster than I should, which is not often.
Off-topic we are looking at a 25 GLC 300 E. I have senior videos on the Mercedes E’s, is it worth it to get the hybrid? Or save some money and stick with just gas.
Thank you! And thanks for sharing 🤓
For a plug-in hybrid, a couple of questions:
- Do you have off road parking at home (to charge overnight)
- Would you be willing to install a charger / get a charger installed?
- What’s your average daily mileage?
If you can’t do any of the above or you have high daily mileage, it can still work, it’ll just mean it’ll take a bit more work.
In the most ideal world, you wake up every day, fully charged, and drive within the car’s electric range (or most of it) and charge it back up each night to see the most savings.
When you’re on electric it could be half the cost of fuel. So then it’s just a balancing act of if it’s worth spending more on a plug-in hybrid vs an ICE car. But some models are the same price which is cool!
@@npoleary Sorry for the delay. We have 3 car garage with our new Mercedes, however this one would be on the driveway, so yes. Our 3rd bay is pre-wired for an EV. Daily mileage is an embarrassing 10 miles. We both work from home, and only use a car for errands. So I think it could work out just fine.
That’s alright! 👍🏼
Ah nice! 👌🏼
I had a loan car in Australia that had this annoying feature, it missed a 110kph sign and thought I was in a 60 kph and alarmed for about 10 minutes
I use the car system and Waze on my phone at the same time.To be sure.But your are right.
Renault have a page of personal settings that you always want switched off. When you get in there is a physical button you press twice and it switches off all those you selected off ... the result is total silence, no bings, bongs or wrestling of the steering wheel. They also use native Google Maps
I have the A class with hud where I have the Road max sign along with my speed. Had the car a year now and it has never let me down. It even works on temp road works along with the live traffic feed. The only thing I did was mute the sound. I now only get the flashing max sign on my windscreen if I go over the limit, but it only flashes. Twice. Can’t fault it.
I do not mind if it tells me I am speeding when I am actually speeding but it seems to not know the difference between an actual speed sign and one telling you of the speed a few miles ahead.
Same I’m all for tech like this, if it’s accurate 99% of the time. But the fact is everyone I’ve spoken knows when a car has this as it gets it wrong a few times!
Most of time it’s fine but that 20% of the time is enough for it to be annoying.
That is not even the worst "assist system". My new Skoda Octavia VRS does not have speed assist but does have lane assist, which is horrible. The first time I drove the car I was on a narrow main road. A lorry came towards me straddling the centre line, so I moved over to the extreme left edge of the road and lane assist tried its best to push me into the path of the lorry. Its not just stupid on narrow UK main and B roads, it is downright dangerous. Its easy, but annoying to turn it off, but you have to do so every time you start the engine. Perhaps I should buy an OBD11 device to turn it off permanently? Maybe the device could also turn off speed alert?
I have been dreading this.
I have an EQE on the way to replace my 2022 C-class which predates this speed warning requirement.
Good to know that I can just hold the volume down button on the steering wheel to disable it.
Yeah Mercedes and BMW (and Mini) I’ve found are the easiest to turn off 🤓
One press away 👌🏼
Awesome on the car though! Got your charge point sorted? 🤓
@@npoleary Really looking forward to it. It was the EQE or the i4. I like the EQE exterior and particularly the interior better than the BMW.
Charge point has been sorted for a while. My wife used to drive an e-Golf but now has an iX1.
Have you bought a Model 3 yet? 😎
Ah nice!
Haha don’t! 😅
Model 3 standard is under £40k which means it avoids the Road Fund Licence in the UK…👌🏼
If EV’s continue as they do, some of them are a lot more affordable than they were a few years ago, they’re getting there!
My December 23 A class went in for fuse replacement. I got a brand new one as courtesy. Omfg it was annoying on the motorway, getting beeped at every time I overtook or got overtook. And the binging…. Let’s face it everyone does 75-80 in the U.K.
Haha 😅
Luckily it’s easy to turn off! 🙏
After market will have a fix for it i had a BMW M135i a few years ago and had the stop start coded so you have to turn it on if you want it not turn it off if you dont.
It's never worked properly on my 2021 GLB. Doesn't update on GPS data and sometimes thinks i'm in a 70 when in the centre of town.
It’s not quite the same system of previous model cars. This is the fact that beeping automatically re-enables every time you start the car and you have to turn it off every time if you don’t want it.
Yours will be the same as mine where it will stay off if you want and won’t re-enable automatically.
yes its'annoying that haunting sound on the Mercedes on my 24 EQS, however what I find more annoying is having to start the in built in dash camera to record every time i start a journey why Mercedes do that and other car manufacturers give you the option to start it automatically is beyond me, I just know it will be that one time where I forget to activate it when it was needed the most.
My wife got caught out on this, but in a different way. She was so used to it's beeping and then adjusting her speed that she began to rely on the system as a way of letting her know when she was exceeding the speed limit. Sadly (?), the system failed to recognise a speed sign, and she only found out about it when she received her speeding fine.
OK, so she has no defence, she should have been aware - but before you all throw stones, how many of us are perfect?
All I am trying to say is that these systems may be starting to affect our driving behaviour with, perhaps, unforeseen consequences?
This is a topic I’m sure I will cover one day…all of these driver aids are really good…but…
Are they making us better and more competent drivers? 🤔🤔🤔
@@npoleary Agreed. I'm old-fashioned and believe having the ability to reverse park my car is a skill that I don't want to lose. Hence, I won't use the auto park on my GLA. It's not just about parking, it's about being able to drive my car, competently, in reverse and having a feel for how the car behaves when going backwards.
However, I totally accept that others will disagree with me.
I think these issues would make for a good video.
That shows you what a bad idea this technology is. Your wife should have been reading the speed limit signs with her own eyes herself, so she would have known what the limits were. All this tech does is become a middle-man badly reading the signs for you and often giving you conflicting information - usually overloading the driver extra contradictory information.
I often see drivers going at speeds well below the limit when it would be safe and normal to be going much faster. I do wonder whether they are now relying, and trusting, the tech to tell them the limit without looking for the road signs themselves?
Our new Kia always tells us we can do 130 kph as we leave our local car wash. It also picks up road identification signs as speed signs.
130kph is the dry cycle for the car wash, that’s how the water gets off the car 👀
Joking aside that is quite a high speed limit for in the city somewhere, wonder where it gets that from?
My 2021 Mazda often reads the max speed limit signs on the back of trucks and farm vehicles so I can drive many many kilometres on the freeway before it gets corrected by a proper sign.
Also the end of speed limit signs after a roadworks are often badly placed or even absent, same problem, it may be fifty kilometre or more before it gets corrected.
Luckily the beep can be permanently. turned off but it is still annoying to see it on the HUD.
Haha I’ve heard of cars doing this, I’ve tried to get my car to do it but it hasn’t.
I can understand why it might do it though with the back of trucks and lorries 🚛 😅
Driving home after collecting my 24 plate Mazda I came upon some roadworks. Passing through them the system failed to pick up the correct speed limit. The HUD was showing 30mph but the limit was actually 60mph. The warning bleeps drove me insane as I couldn't remember how to turn them off.
I’m sticking with older cars. I don’t know why a bloke sat in an office in Brussels needs to decide how fast I want to get to work in Bristol on Tuesday morning in October. If I want to do 40 in a 30, I know I’m doing it. I don’t need a bong
I don’t agree with speeding…however…
I will say that some speeds for roads are far slower than they should be, reducing speed limits down to a snails pace.
I sound like a boy racer, far from it in my 1.3L petrol! But some roads are just a lot slower than they used to be and it causes traffic tailbacks because cars aren’t flowing fast enough
@@npoleary So true, a lot of speed limits are utterly ridiculous now, and it just creates many more problems.
Most annoying bit for me is when you have the 20mph when lights flash say by a school, but not relevant at that time
Very true!
In the US fortunately we don't get the MBUX voice alerting to exceeding the speed, but the speed limit icon annoyingly blinks when exceeding the speed limit.
Yes that’s what mine is like, annoying with the new ones you have to switch it off every time! Luckily most manufacturers make it relatively easy too!
Put some tape over it.
My case in point with the national speed limit on country roads ! The government contradictions are boundless. Who in their right minds would go at 60mph on a very narrow country lane where you have mud & leaves on the road & farmers tractors etc along with the other maniac coming at 60 the other way ! The mind boggles.
Haha yup! And those country roads with a single track.
What’s the speed limit? Maybe 30mph?
*NO 60 MPH* 😂
@@npoleary I have noticed very recently that it is 20mph through villages & rightly so. But then changes up to 40,50 & 60 on roads that are just not up to them kind of speeds ! Ridiculous !
Yeah seems odd…I know it’s the “speed limit” but as you say some roads are physically impossible to do that. And yet a clear stretch of motorway we’re limited to 70mph
The EU safety bings and bongs are becoming far too intrusive. We don’t really have the proper tech to do it properly yet. Fortunately the speed recognition on my EV just flashes a circular sign if you are going too fast. It does not recognise overhead speed signs. Sometimes it suggests it has no idea.
I have a Vw ID.3 and even tho mine is turned off by the method you showed it still gets confused very quickly.
one thing i have found is time altered speed limits play havoc with it, The car reads the lower speed for use 24:7 365 .
At one school all in very close proximity is 3 different speed limits , Imagine what that does 😂
If i am not alert i can go from 30 mph - 5 mph ( The latter is within the school grounds and cars will read the sign in the school grounds entrance showing that limit.
Ah yes that’s another example those 5mph or 10mph speed signs in private car parks even though you’re on public roads.
Can the bimmercode turns it off permanently ?
I found that the best way to stop the 'bongs' is to drive within the speed limits and pay attention to the road.
If you watched the video, you would have seen that the car's speed detectors read the limits incorrectly, so you'll get bonged even when sticking to the real speed limit.
Hi nick, is there any way that i can increase the volume of my indicators for my Merc Cla 2024 model. I think the indicator volume is very low. sometimes, i don't even realise that i turned on or turned off the indicator.
I’ve not found a way to do that on Mercedes, not seen anything in their settings menu anyway
@npoleary thank you so much, Nick. At least i know now that i can't increase the volume.
You should not force on a system where it does not work well. Even the manuals generally say something along the lines of "Dont rely on this tech as its not great and you cant blame us" so if the car manufacturers are saying it a nice idea but not reliable enough then it should not be forced on. Enable it be default when the car is sold but allow users to turn it off or perhaps ever few months a message to say are you sure you still want this tech off.
Thanks for the info Nick
No worries! 🤓👊🏼
Thanks Nick!
Thanks for watching! 🤓
I try to remember before I set off tonturn off the bing but not the warning. The Android Auto using waze bings anyway, looking for a way to disable that too. Do you know ? Sorry to butt in on this but I found a setting to ask which mode you want to drive in, I did set it to ask but ut never does. I have a 24, GlC e hybrid.
Oh warning’s fine I don’t mind that, and I wouldn’t mind the bing it it was accurate 99% of the time. It’s just it’s not, it’s more like 80% which means it’s annoying.
On the Waze app (phone, not the car)
Open Waze
Menu (top left)
Underneath your Name, tap View Profile
Settings
Alerts & Reports
Speedometer
Toggle off “Alert when speeding”
For the mode, I’ve seen that before, when I’ve enabled it, it produces a pop out banner a bit like a text message on a phone on the top of the screen when you turn it on each day. I can’t remember though if you had to tap on your profile first.
@@npoleary Thank you Nick, you're a star
Hi Nick , I have this feature on my 2024 A class is there any way to add this as a favourite to save going into settings every time I start my car .
Not sure you can add it to the favourites menu but why would you want to?
I explain in the video, that simply tapping the screen turns it off. Or hold the mute button.
If you can add it to the favourites menu it’ll add an extra step
On my car you can mute it by the ways you mentioned but still flashes if you go above said speed limit which is annoying especially in the HUD the only way you can stop from flashing is in settings menu ,hence why I wondered if you can add as a favourite .keep up the great content Nick
Oh I see the yes the flashing will still happen.
I was considering making a video about the favourites menu, like all the things you could do with it 🤓
That would be helpful Nick if you could ,Thanks again .
Thanks for the tips, Nick. Can you review an onboard DashCam on a Mercedes? For years, I have been using an external Dashcam (they are awesome tools), but I am considering getting one with my next new car.Thanks.
I have at least a couple times over the last few years, newest review of it was this year 🙏
ruclips.net/video/xkXyOzoLpO0/видео.htmlsi=t1kAh980ReqA5Ohp
Glad you enjoy the tips and tricks!
@@npoleary Thanks for the link to the review. Will inquire with my dealership on changes for 2024-2025 models.
There is the opposite issue of being in a 60 limit and driving past a poorly aligned side road limit sign such as a 40. The car then thinks you’re installing speeding. Some people see this and be too dumb for their own good brake down to 40. This is potentially very dangerous.
Very true! 🤓
Driving is very complex so all the car is looking for is a speed sign.
Most of the time it will pick up the direction of your travel but across the various manufacturers I cover, I still have seen them get it wrong so it’s not perfect.
Gotta say my new Skoda has this feature, and it’s fine, a discreet little "plip" not too insistent, indeed I might not hear it sometimes. And yes it’s frustrating when for whatever reason the system thinks the limit is lower than it actually is. But I have no need, nor desire to turn it off.
Fair enough, when I review a car though I have to have it off
People will assume:
- Either I’m speeding
or
- There’s something wrong with that exact car
Neither of which are true as all cars have these days, it’s just annoying.
In my opinion either the accuracy needs to be improved or have the option to have it off permanently if people want.
@@npoleary me too! 😀 On the back seat, or if the passenger seat folds back enough. Otherwise the review isn't really complete. More reviewers should share your attitude to "getting the job done" nudge nudge, wink wink.
If it can be turned off permanently there is no point in fitting it. It does need to be made to work properly. In the meantime I look forward to the increase in value of my pre 2024 car.
Speed limits are useless anyways. People who cause accident due to over speeding, never follow them. Its only an inconvenience to people who follow the rules. A person who respects the roads and others on it will know how fast they must go on any road based on apparent conditions without causing any damage to others using it. New tech features are getting more and more annoying.
Just got my new EQB and it has this annoying system on it. Was hoping you were gong to say how to permanently disable it. Well disappointed you can’t. ‘spose I’ll get used to it. 😠
Ah nice! 👌🏼
No sadly you can’t…however Mercedes, BMW and Mini do have the easiest way of toggling it off 👍🏼
A real PIA. Get a man with a laptop to turn it off permanently. It’s worth it! He can turn off Lane Assist at the same time.
Haha
Does this not count as a modification though?
My question with this, do you have to label the car as modified now through insurance?
And, surely this would now affect a car manufacturer’s warranty as you are modifying car’s original specification.
Maybe after the warranty’s run out or something…
The time for new cars at the price they are is over, I will get by for the rest of my driving time with cars pre 2023
I have a Mazda cx60 and I can turn the sound off and it stays off thank god and the reason is as I turn out of my road for a good mile it says I am in a 20mph zone and in my heads up the speed limits flashes but the speed is 30mph now I like the speed warning and telling me the speed but when it is wrong omg it would send me insane if I could not turn it off.
Ah fair enough, yes you can turn it off on new cars this year but it defaults to on after turning the car off and back on.
I wouldn’t mind it if it was accurate 99% of the time, but 80% of the time becomes annoying and more dangerous as you’re constantly having to toggle it off. I know I’m not the only one who experiences that! 😅
Hi Nick all cars should be have switch to manual turn it off the same as new Renault Scenic
Yeah you can turn them off but it re-enables every journey annoyingly
@@npoleary Hi Nick I know it always come back on each time you get back into car but the way the new Scenic is done is by a manual switch which means you don’t have a long way of going into control panel each time which takes three or four steps each time
Ah I see that makes sense! 🤓🙏
Comand is just as bad and has it's problems as you say. If anyone wants to improve road safety it would be a good idea to have decent road surface with no pot hole. The warning noise is a distraction and is dangerous!
I’m all for it, as I actually drive on a limiter (that I set) most of the time. Cars are very smooth these days and you can easily wander above the speed limit 😅
However…it doesn’t get it right sometimes, which then means on multiple occasions you’re looking down to turn it off. Although I will admit, models like Mercedes, BWM and Mini have a one button hold to turn it off so that could be muscle memory, so that’s pretty good 👍🏼
My car has a speed limit indicator it just changes colour, does nothing else 🤣😂 I can set my speed limiter or put it on active cruise, which I can set to the limit, but appart from that nothing else 🧐
This is precisely why my RX450hl (2021) is the last car I will buy. They can keep their stupid bongs, bongs and the like.
The simple answer is for all cars to use gps & make them update every minute rather than cameras to read street signs, then govern the vehicle's max speed in accordance to the max speed of the road the vehicle is travelling on.
I often drive with a speed limiter on, just stops me accidentally speeding 🤓
If it updated automatically and got it right *every time* then I wouldn’t mind that.
It’s the fact it can get it wrong :/
GPS isn't always accurate, and the speed limit database would also have to be very accurate and up-to-date (even taking into account roadworks). Cars will also need to be able to connect to a mobile network quickly at all times, which would be very difficult. There's so many flaws in that idea, I'm sorry.
@@davem9204 not at all, your phone csn do it.
Not tryna be a pessimist but I'm not ready for when they command all auto companies to NOT allow it be turned off 💀 tyranny around the corner
If you turn off a safety feature, then have an RTC, will your insurers ‘read this back’ and then reject a claim due to your ‘contribution’ to the failure?
Be interesting to see if your action is recorded!
Depends on the terms & conditions of car insurance on the policy.
I certainly haven’t seen anything like that on my own car’s policy or any policy I’ve ever had.
However…when I’ve taken a test drive in a dealer before, I had noted that in their T’s & C’s it did state not to turn off driving assist systems. Although I would imagine this is more for brake assists systems not speed warning.
But good point though!
Although these so-called safety features seem to make the car more dangerous. I wonder what insurers do if one of this driver interference devices is a contributing factor towards a RTC (e.g. it slams on the brakes unexpectedly)?
@@davem9204 agree. Mine tries to brake when there is a parked car on the bend of a narrow road when you try to drive past. It thinks you’re trying to drive into it.
Don't speed, no warning, not anoiying!
Never said that I did, it’s the fact this system can get it wrong multiple times. It will then beep at you unnecessarily.
It's all about control.
The implementation or law is shit. I would accept it if they had at least 10% margin at low speed and 20% at high speed on the speed limit. Drove a new BMW in Portugal for 40 days and as soon as you go 1km over it starts warning. In cities I normally drive the speed limit (40 or 50 or 60Km/h) but sometimes I go to a couple of km above and I do not want it beeping all the time. On Highways I like to drive around 20km above speed limit, so around 140Km/h. Even after disabling it will enable automatically after some driving 1h or so. It´s completely stupid and it will desensitise people. Why is UK implementing this as well? Brexit and all.... hehehehe....
Bloody daft idea. I'm glad my car hasn't got it. I can see the road signs. I don't need the car to look for them.
Are you for real? The car doesn't read road signs. It's totally GPS.
how long before cars start setting the cabin temperature to what the EU consider to be best each time you turn the engine on? 🤣 or have an opinion on the safest radio station and make that the default each ignition press despite what you were listening to when you parked up 🤣
If you ignore this and are caught speeding you should get triple points and if you turn it off and caught speeding it should be a 12 month ban
I’d agree with this 100% if the system was accurate 99% of the time but sadly it isn’t. Far from it.
In almost every journey on a car that has it regardless of the manufacturer, it will most likely show the incorrect speed on the car somewhen.
If it was accurate then yeah! Agreed! Speed limits are there for a reason 👍🏼
I thought we wasn't part of the eu so why do we have to follow there rules
Because the cars are built in the EU, so follow their regulations; and it's a lot easier to copy their existing policies than going through the hassle of drafting a load of new rules. Of course, if the UK was still in the EU it could have influence over those rules.
very soon, very soon you will not be albe to switch it off. the road limit will be all your car will do. imagine that in your 500k ferrari.
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Very annoying nick..😢...what happens on motorways...?...all stuck at 70mph...imagine....glad they can be turned off...!..gaz
The maximum permitted speed on UK motorways is 70 MPH. The law applies to everyone. Anyone exceeding the limit should be sent for a free holiday in a North Korean labour camp.
Yeah 70mph motorway speeds but if the car’s sat nav is out of date or it’s read an incorrect sign it could beep at you.
My thought is, I’m 53 years old, I’ve lived through all those decades where stupid stuff like this didn’t exist. The boneheads in the EU should stop this nanny behavior. I am perfectly able to watch myself thank you, get lost!!
Can you provide a valid street address, please?
Buddy, you need to sit closer to the wheel. Your arms are fully stretched out when you sit in your chair… you even put your shoulders forward to compensate…
Haha thanks!
But I’m a bit special I have long legs! Always mention this in my reviews of cars but didn’t need to mention it in this video.
If I sit any closer my legs will touch the steering wheel.
Just me I’m afraid 😅
@@npoleary Ooh I didn't know, my bad! I hope it doesn't give you any shoulder issues.