Bornpoor2

Driving on a major freeway with medium traffic averaging 75-80 mph, I decided to pass a slow vehicle in front of me and return to the same lane I was in. The lane to the right was open and safe for this maneuver if I was quick at it. As I went around him my MBS suddenly switched on and left me without power, stranded between 2 lanes of freeway traffic, it was a nightmare. Luckily the traffic in the lanes slowed for me. Since then I always remember to switch-off that “feature”. Has this ever happened to anyone else here?

kurtatx

TBH, the benefits probably outweigh the fringe cases.

Bornpoor2

How can the possibility of death, outweigh the benefits?

dugums

Just wondering (not judging) - were you riding pretty close behind the car you were passing? If so, did you apply throttle before making decisive steering input?

Waetherman

And did you use your turn signal when shifting lanes? I’m assuming the MBS you refer to us the road departure mitigation system - I don’t know about manual override through steering but I know that a turn signal overrides it.

EFR

I have had two instances of the car applying the brakes when unexpected. Once, exiting a freeway (65MPH) with one of the wedge-shaped impact absorbers dIviding the exit lane and the freeway and without using the blinker, on go the brakes and stop goes my heart, I hit the gas knowing there was no-one or nothing right in front of me and that seemed to over-ride it. The second time was just on another part of the same freeway on another day, drifted to the right a little (too much?) over the line (70MPH). Rather than getting the lane departure alert, it just started braking...again, the heart. Neither time was a full lockup, but enough to scare the crap out of me. I think half my panic is someone being close enough behind me to rear end the car, the other half...why is this thing braking!!!!

Madd Dog

Hitting the gas is supposed to override emergency braking.

The thing is, I know that that is what the manual says, but a) does it always work, and b), my wife, who is the other driver, is not a RTFM person, and I doubt that most drivers are. Yet we consumers want that emergency protection. There must be a better way to notify the driver how to override.

russianDude

btw, you can get ticket for passing on the right side if cop sees it. Really hate when people do that. A lot of people dont even know this.

theredia92

Ahh you must be the guy holding up the passing lane everyday of my life?! How ya doin, man?

russianDude

no, left lanes are only for passing or when moving faster than other cars. Passing on left is definitely safer when you have a choice. It makes sense. When you are on the 3 lane highway passing car in the middle lane on the left, as you are completing your maneuver trying to get back into middle lane, you dont want someone to quickly go around the same car from right and prevent you from completing your passing. As you are merging to middle lane from left, some parts of your view falls into blind spot. Maybe you will experience this one day and take a moment to think what is safer.

RDX-Rick

That's a good point. I thought the OP was saying his Collision Mitigation Braking System (CMBS) activated. I suppose this could happen, but it is more likely that the Road Departure Mitigation (RDM) activated when it saw the OP moving out of his lane.Not to be confused with Lane Keeping Assist System (LKAS).

I find that many people are not aware of the small differences between RDM and LKAS.

LKAS will operate to keep your vehicle centered within the lines on the roadway.

RDM will not keep you centered, but if your car drifts close to the right side of your lane (for example), it will try to steer you back to the left side of the lane. Without driver input this result in a severe ping ponging effect. If your car should actually cross a lane marker, the system will apply the brakes in order to stop you from going further out of your lane, and into a ditch.

So perhaps you do not have a CMBS problem, but rather an RDM system that behaved correctly if you failed to turn on your direction signals.

Perhaps you were a little too quick and forgot to signal?

russianDude

If you are too “important” to use signals when changing lanes, you should disable some of the safety systems.

Mustachio

If I had a dollar for the number of times I get the middle finger for flashing my lights at the person going 60 in the left lane, I'd be able to pay for a vacation each year. The U.S. desperately needs a drivers ed refresher course.

Waetherman

I couldn't agree more. Getting a license in the US is way too easy, and too many don't really know the rules (or don't follow them). I'm with @russianDude ; I don't like people passing on the right, and I don't pass on the right myself unless someone has repeatedly ignored me flashing my lights. But I also don't stay in the left lane unless I'm going faster than the traffic in the right lane. That said, what really burns my toast is when people come up behind me flashing their lights even though I'm passing people.I'll move to the right when I'm done passing to let faster drivers by, but I'm not going to slow myself down to do that.

thoiboi

You risk death every single day of your life. Why bother living?

russianDude

Just simple things, on a 3 lane highway, if you are in the middle lane and want to pass another car in the middle lane, if both left and right lanes are free, you should always use left lane to overtake.

anoop

Did the "BRAKE" notification light up in the instrument panel?
Did you have your indicator on when changing lanes?