Interesting safety feature

[ksyrah]

The other evening, I was pulling out of driveway and turning left onto a highway. I was connect by Bluetooth but wasn't using navigation nor any other features. I hesitate to call this a divided highway, but the chicken lane (center turn lane) is wide enough for two normal traffic lanes. So I turn left into the chicken lane and start accelerating to highway speeds to merge in and the navigation system (at least I think it was) starts yelling at me. Didn't pick up the exact verbiage but it came across as though it thought that I was traveling the wrong way on the highway. As soon as I merged over, it went away. I haven't updated in a while, but I have the purple home screen. Has anybody else experienced this?

 

[bruesjoh04]

The other evening, I was pulling out of driveway and turning left onto a highway. I was connect by Bluetooth but wasn't using navigation nor any other features. I hesitate to call this a divided highway, but the chicken lane (center turn lane) is wide enough for two normal traffic lanes. So I turn left into the chicken lane and start accelerating to highway speeds to merge in and the navigation system (at least I think it was) starts yelling at me. Didn't pick up the exact verbiage but it came across as though it thought that I was traveling the wrong way on the highway. As soon as I merged over, it went away. I haven't updated in a while, but I have the purple home screen. Has anybody else experienced this?

I have heard people mention this happening when driving in construction zones on divided highways where the traffic is flowing in what would traditionally be the wrong way.

I have not personally been in a construction zone like that in ages, and I always like to drive on the correct side of the road otherwise, so I haven’t gotten this type of warning myself.

 

[TONYK11]

I'm Australian. That message is for us.

 

[HillCountry]

Was the chicken lane bounded by yellow stripes on both sides? Perhaps the cameras were reading the yellow striping and getting confused.

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[ksyrah]

Was the chicken lane bounded by yellow stripes on both sides? Perhaps the cameras were reading the yellow striping and getting confused.

A solid and broken on each side. And I was getting a verbal warning - nothing tactile. The car starts talking to you in the middle of a conversation

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[HillCountry]

A solid and broken on each side. And I was getting a verbal warning - nothing tactile. The car starts talking to you in the middle of a conversation

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Find local businesses, view maps and get driving directions in Google Maps.

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So odd. It’s good it didn’t try to brake and resist your steering inputs.

It hasn’t happened to me yet. I’ll think about this the next time I am in a chicken lane.