[hollpe]

I've done a few long motorway trips and just wanted to get your view of the Assisted Driving Mode. It seems to favour being a little too much to the left in the lane for my liking. I may be way off the mark here, but it feels like it might be setup for a left hand-drive rather than right-hand drive.

When I'm passing other cars they are a little too close and I tend to intervene, especially when its a huge wagon!

How have you found it?

[ggla]

A bit left for me too

[RedJon]

Same here, I wonder if it’s because you are overtaking the cars on the left and the radar has a more accurate view of where they are compared with cars coming up from behind in the fast lane which are just being monitored by camera?

[uvpat]

Same here - Suspect that a section of the software is thinking the whole world is left-hand steering!

[Lazy Lee]

I don't think it has anything to do with LHD/RHD: my car also tends to steer towards the center of the road a bit more than I would do myself. So same tendency, not 'mirrored'...

[R_Soul]

Yes, in roadworks with narrow lanes it’s a bit sweaty palms going past a wagon.

Also noticed that when using the Assisted Driving on urban roads, the system doesn’t seem to notice parked cars which are protruding into a lane.

I suppose the system is not really designed for this driving but I like to have it on for pure laziness!

I’m sure it would just plough into a parked car if you left it alone though….

[GDEvans]

Are we talking political bias here?

Mine seems to be a liberal democrat - straight down the middle. Neither left or right leaning. Very comfortable with it on the motorway. I turn of the lane keeping in narrow lanes in roadworks as everything can be a little close.

It struggled on the M5 on Wednesday evening. The crosswinds were playing havoc with it, causing the alarm to go off requiring manual intervention. I gave up with it in the end.

Yesterday I was following a large articulated car transporter. The car failed to recognise it as a lorry. Instead it picked up on the car hanging off the back, and displayed the image of a car on the dash display!

[Cossa]

Originally Posted by hollpe

I've done a few long motorway trips and just wanted to get your view of the Assisted Driving Mode. It seems to favour being a little too much to the left in the lane for my liking. I may be way off the mark here, but it feels like it might be setup for a left hand-drive rather than right-hand drive.

When I'm passing other cars they are a little too close and I tend to intervene, especially when its a huge wagon!

How have you found it?

Same here

[Klinkschakel]

Originally Posted by GDEvans

Mine seems to be a liberal democrat - straight down the middle. Neither left or right leaning. Very comfortable with it on the motorway. I turn of the lane keeping in narrow lanes in roadworks as everything can be a little close.

Same for me, it drives as I would have been.
Straight in the middle, no sweaty hands what so ever.

[amy.grange]

Left for me too

[Mobeam]

A question regarding assisted driving package.

Just checked my order spec and see that it is fitted with Driving Assistant Pro which comprises of Lane Control Assist, Lane Keeping Assist, Active lane Guidance.
Does this include automatic lane change on motorways... as show on a recent viewed video?

[the_ape]

Mine with the initial firmware was center biased, since 07/2021.85 it's deffo more left biased. Not sure if it was that version of firmware or the update on the sensors...

[JAV64]

Yes left more side

[GDEvans]

Originally Posted by the_ape

Mine with the initial firmware was center biased, since 07/2021.85 it's deffo more left biased. Not sure if it was that version of firmware or the update on the sensors...

The update made no difference to my vehicle.

[GDEvans]

Originally Posted by Mobeam

Does this include automatic lane change on motorways... as show on a recent viewed video?

If only it did. This is one feature that was present in some of the early models, but disabled on newer cars. Nobody really seems to know why. Apparently it may, or may not, be enabled in the future.

[iX3inOz]

I wonder if it’s a regulatory issue in the UK?

I’m in Australia (so also RHD) and my iX3 has the lane change feature enabled in the assisted driving mode. I’m not a fan around the suburbs/towns but on the freeway the whole assisted driving setup is exceptional.

[the_ape]

Originally Posted by iX3inOz

I wonder if it’s a regulatory issue in the UK?

I’m in Australia (so also RHD) and my iX3 has the lane change feature enabled in the assisted driving mode. I’m not a fan around the suburbs/towns but on the freeway the whole assisted driving setup is exceptional.

It is an England thing, if you go in and mod the country over to FFFF then it gets enabled, just on the 07/2021.85 it's a bit of a pain, as struggling to get it to code properly using latest data for esys.

That might be though because BMW have already sorta admitted that 07/2021.85 is a bit of a broken firmware (has lots of issues, battery cooling and profile being the main ones)