Audible alarms will startle you at first

[TellmeyourWHAT?]

The following is a bit of advice for brand new Telluride drivers who may be unfamiliar with modern safety features.

While 99% of the time, your visual scanning will detect on-coming cars, I am speaking primarily of that 1% -- when you click your left turn signal to change lanes and there happens to be a fast-approaching car in your blind spot that escaped your visual acuity. The internal audible alarm is loud and unnerving the first few times it happens, but then you slowly get used to it to where you actually bless it because it keeps you from making a move that would be disastrous. It goes off before you have moved over. So instead of being startled, you have learned to use it as a tool in defensive driving. Changing lanes in very heavy traffic is when the alarm is most welcome.

A big part of my problem is that the blind-spot monitoring orange triangle in my outside mirrors is GREATLY dimmed because my front windows have been tinted. Couple that with wearing polarized sunglasses most of the days, and the orange triangle in the mirror does not really catch my eye. I love the tinted windows but may opt on my new Telluride (coming in Sept?) to not get them done.

 

[eiskafee]

Thank you for the note. I did get startled a few times after getting my 2021 Telluride a week ago. I am happy about all these safety features. I came from a BMW X3 and KIA does feel like an upgrade in driving assistance & safety aspects.

 

[arattle]

A big part of my problem is that the blind-spot monitoring orange triangle in my outside mirrors is GREATLY dimmed because my front windows have been tinted. Couple that with wearing polarized sunglasses most of the days, and the orange triangle in the mirror does not really catch my eye. I love the tinted windows but may opt on my new Telluride (coming in Sept?) to not get them done.

This is my problem as well. My wife's Mazda has tinted front windows, and I wear the same sunglasses, but I have no issue seeing the blind spot warning light in her car. I think the Telluride's is just a little extra faint. Maybe it's the size of the mirror and the location of the warning light?

 

[alexdrums]

I’ve had to turn the BSM off, because the sound drives me nuts and you can’t just disable the audible warning. The BSM always activates too early for me and interferes with normal driving.

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[TellmeyourWHAT?]

I’ve had to turn the BSM off, because the sound drives me nuts and you can’t just disable the audible warning. The BSM always activates too early for me and interferes with normal driving.

I've done a lot of looking/experimenting with approaching cars and IMO the BSM is almost too late. When it first activates, cars appear to be just off my rear bumper, in the other lane of course. I know this - I wouldn't be pulling out at the same distance if all I had were mirrors.

 

[alexdrums]

I've done a lot of looking/experimenting with approaching cars and IMO the BSM is almost too late. When it first activates, cars appear to be just off my rear bumper, in the other lane of course. I know this - I wouldn't be pulling out at the same distance if all I had were mirrors.

Yes, but you don’t have your Telly yet. A typical example would be wanting to change lanes in slow city traffic where there is a car in the next lane slightly behind me but not in my blind spot. I would turn the blinker on and immediately get the audible blind spot warning when I am changing lanes. What an annoyance

 

[TellmeyourWHAT?]

Yes, but you don’t have your Telly yet. A typical example would be wanting to change lanes in slow city traffic where there is a car in the next lane slightly behind me but not in my blind spot. I would turn the blinker on and immediately get the audible blind spot warning when I am changing lanes. What an annoyance

True - but I have similar with my Sorento with exactly the same BSM.

In your example, I would most likely opt to stay in place. But that is just me - I am a lot more mellow in driving than I used to be. Like I said in my OP, 99% of the time I visually see what is going on, so I don't cut it close.