Great advice for what should be common sense. I did reduce the sensitivity on mine . If I recall correctly there are 3 settings & mine is set to the center setting. Have a great week, Steve!
My wife loves to drive 'attached' to the car ahead and just won't listen to reason. I drive her Camry in rader-cruise mode everywhere, the car itself does a wonderful job 👍😎✊
Here's the reason why I need this (I'm going to try changing the sensitivity)... my problem is a tomato plant. When I pull out of my garage it's really tight in the alley and I have to make a 3 point turn. My neighbors across the way are growing a tomato plant in the planter by their trash cans and it hangs into the alley. My car won't let me get anywhere close to the tomato plant, making it impossible for me to back up. Once the tomato plant got going I now make a 4 point turn to get out of my garage, lol. It's a little absurd, so thank you for making this video!
Thank you!!! My mom's toyota wouldn't even start, lights flashing and making a weird noise. We got stuck in the cold for a good 20 min... until I saw your video. Pressing that damn button for 5 seconds was all that it took for the car to start normally. Had no idea!
The safety system saved me from having a huge accident. It stopped me from hitting the car in front of me but the car behind me hit me and the car was a total loss
Steve, I have found that if you go into the PDA (Proactive Driving Assist) setting and Disable the "DA" (Deceleration Assist) setting that even with ALL of the other nanny"s turned and both Sensitivity settings at the maximum 3rd level that my Grand Highlander will not Brake as you come towards another preceding vehicle. The question is, with this setting off will it still intervene and brake for you if a collision is truly imminent and what is the overall impact and interaction with the other safety systems? 🤔
I never had any problems with that system. And its on the max seting. I usually always slow down early. I hate having to slam the brakes. It just don't feel that good.
I’m curious, on somewhat the same topic, have you figured out how to change the settings for the front cross traffic on vehicles like the Grand Highlander? I haven’t looked too hard but I haven’t seen it yet. It comes on A LOT. Especially at intersections. Pretty annoying.
2018 Camry has the pre collision system malfunction and secondary collision system failure. Got stuck with this 12h from home, so had to leave it at a shop. Shop says it’s a transmission issue and towed it to them. Does that make sense?
I think one of the issues in my 2024 CHR isn't braking to late its the fact the car thinks parked cars (on the left in the UK) have suddenly stopped and this activates the auto braking, to add to this, the LDA tries to pull the car over from the central line towards the parked cars which you have to avoid and then the emergency braking happens - i have almost had other cars crash into the back of me because of this reason. On my 2022 Corolla you could turn this feature off and it would stay off until you manually turned it back on, which i did when i was driving on the motorway but not when city driving. It makes me sad i have to turn these features off every time i get in the car now but i do not trust these features 😞
It needs to do a better job with cross traffic. If I pull out into cross-traffic immediately when a car passes me, it slams on the brakes and I’m stranded sideways in a lane with oncoming traffic.
This…. Or when I let off the brake behind another vehicle at a green light to go and it does it. It’s frustrating. And you get whiplash and a hurt shoulder. 🤷♀️
Yes, I am having this problem even on the lowest sensitivity setting. It is super scary. I have just been disabling it every time I turn on the car which is a complete hassle.
Lawsuit waiting to happen! I took into the dealer and they said they could reprogram the system to have a lower sensitivity setting but they were gonna charge me like $1k
I was just in an accident, a car failed to yield right a way and my front riders side hit her. My 4 Runner is in the shop and I get updates every few days regarding the status. Today I got an email saying that a malfunction in the pre collision system has been detected. I feel this should either be a recall or possibly in relation to the accident and be covered by the other driver era insurance.
Thank you for this. Glad to know I can turn the sensitivity down a little bit so that my prius doesn't brake check me because it mistook a road plate for a car 🙃
Not weird. I have a 2023 rav 4. Bought new. Complete transmission failure and replaced at 3000 miles. Took 5 months. Now I have electrical system warning and power steering failure and collision warning. I don't want this POS to apply the brakes while driving! Only has 5000 miles. I will NEVER own another Toyota. service has been terrible. Thanks for the hack. I feel a little better now.
Just had a scary and dangerous episode with the PCS on my 2025 Camry XLE. I stopped at a rest area along I-95 South heading to Richmond on a clear bright sunny day. As I was exiting the rest area, heading to merge back on to I-95, there was no one in front of me or behind me. Only clear dry pavement in front of me. Then, out of the blue, my car slammed on the brakes for only a split second! I also heard the warning tone at the same time. It immediately released the brakes and the car was fine for the rest of the trip. BUT! There was no vehicle or obstacle in front of me and fortunately, no vehicle behind me, otherwise I likely would have been rear ended! I just checked the settings. The PCS was set to the medium warning time. I've changed it to the minimum warning time. If this was a once in 10 year occurrence, well, OK. My car is only 5 months old and that means that its likely to do it again before its even one year old. If this had happened at high speed on the interstate, this could have caused a serious accident! I've googled this and discovered that this has happened to other Toyota owners too. No one in front of them and it slammed on the brakes for a split second. Any ideas? Does Toyota know about this? This is dangerous. Like your TH-cam Channel - and Yes, otherwise, my 2025 Camry is an excellent car that I'm very happy with (or was very happy with). Dave Roycraft Burke, VA
I started reading the 198 pages on TSS 3.0 in the owners manual and the list of situations where the system may not work or may brake unnecessarily is huge. In fact they seem to work correctly only in ideal weather conditions and ideal road conditions. I regularly drive in situations that Toyota says the system may come on when it isn't needed. How is this safe? Steep hills and curves with undulations and potholes, trees and rock abutments close the the road on sharp curves, changing shade and light conditions. It looks to me like I am safer with the system turned off otherwise it may brake when it should be and might get me in a collision of force me off the road etc. There should be an easier way of turning this function off and on without having to pull over and stop. It seems to me these systems are great for those that live in urban areas and not great for those that live rurally in areas where roads are not paved, straight and without trees etc hanging over.
I live in a rural area with exactly the conditions you describe and the system works quite well. Remember that manuals are written by lawyers who are not describing what is normal. They are describing the absolute worst case. These systems work extremely well and I do not suggest turning them off
Thanks for your reply. I just would rather not have them in a car. I checked with my insurance company and they raise the cost of insurance because they are very expensive to fix, they make windshield replacement excessively expensive (I know someone that paid over $2,000 Canadian for a OEM windshield and recalibration of a camera and I just put a new windshield in my current car for $400.00 Canadian) and based on dealerships I asked you have to fix them if they malfunction or other things on the car won't work properly. If people just paid attention to their driving we wouldn't need these systems. My neighbour had their Blind Spot Monitoring System malfunction and the battery kept dying and the radio and HVAC system were affected and it cost $1,200 to fix. There is no choice now but to have them if you want a new car so I am debating getting a newer used car from a few years back when some of the lower trim models didn't have them. I have read that problems with cars have doubled since all this tech went in and that means one things; higher cost of ownership. @@TrainerSteveClifford
Is there a way to disable it (without doing it manually) when you are going very slow? My anti collision system doesn’t believe I will fit in my garage, but I have 4 inches to spare (and a very effective parking stop).
It’s not that I wanted to disable it it’s that I drive a 2023 Toyota Camry xse And when traveling from one city to another when it’s snowing it has caused me to have an accident. I am driving safely and under the speed limit and staying clear away from cars as I can but when it gets blocked, it set my car into a slide. I would think that the automotive manufactures would have looked at us before installing everything the way they did. It is extremely dangerous to stop every 15 minutes to try and clear off any cameras or sensors when driving on a highway especially in heavy snow.
Hi Steve, great videos. Hope you come back to them. The automatic braking is the one technology that worries me about my new cc cross. We live 100k from the nearest store. Winter trips home on extreme ice, through moose pasture , can happen any winter. Steering always trumps braking when these animals jump from the ditch and traction is limited. Question - does subtle driver braking over ride hard brakingby the automatic system? Otherwise, it seems my only option is to disable the system in these conditions via traction control button as you described. Thoughts?
Light braking does let the car’s systems know that you’re aware of the circumstances and it means the systems won’t kick in as quickly. If it sees an imminent threat however, it will hammer the brakes if it thinks you don’t have control
@@TrainerSteveClifford Thanks for the quick reply. One last question occurred to me, would the abs activate during an emergency braking incident, which system has priority?
He probably means tailgating, careless use or lack of depth perception, excessive speed, or all of the above. This no doubt defines at least 25% of drivers today.
I only need to turn it off when back in up from a parking space or into my driveway. We have a mobility scooter and rack on the back that is showing as something in the way. NONE of these suggestions are working for this problem. Very frustrating and scary to have the brakes slam on. I am backing up very slowly and it still slams the brakes.
Your issue is not part of the pre-collision system. It is part of the parking assist. You need to turn off the setting called "PKSB" in your settings menu. Your parking system sees the rack and thinks there is a person or obstacle.
Got a 2024 cross and getting it checked up next week. System is very invasive. Applies brakes way too early or not at all even at a very slow speed. It is a very anoying system to me. Accidients have happened before and unfortunately, they will still happen with or because of all the sensors and security systems.
My parents used to own 4Runner and PCS is set to MAX and PCS never kicks in because my parents drive carefully and brake early Most people hate PCS because they don’t know how to drive carefully and brake early, Most people drive hard and brake very late that’s why PCS kicks in
@@psalmistinprogress9089 i said nothing about women. Drivers… drivers who experience frequent intervention from the PCS need to ease up, regardless of chromosomes
I know someone who owned brand new Kia and his crash sensors threw him off the road at 70mph with absolutely nothing in front of him! So I'm not so sure, if those systems are that safe.
@@johnpuccetti6019 considering that anything that can’t be permanently turned off is due to federal regulations, you might have a hard time with any brand. It will only get worse as car manufacturers try to comply with ever more intrusive regulations.
The problem is these systems intermittently brake when there is nothing around! At least that’s the issue we have with our Honda. Ours has brought us to a full stop no cars, people, or animals around. A dark shadow from a house or tree seems to be capable of activating this crap. It’s a problem across multiple manufacturers. It’s a sucky system
This is why I bought a 2013 Prius for my last car instead of a newer one, as I have rented Toyotas with this feature and it absolutely sucks. I have been driving in SoCal for more than 40 years and can pretty much predict when someone is going to move into my lane and am pretty good at being able to move into another lane without having to slow down. If I drive with the cruse control, I won't have to keep accelerating and will also save gas. I do not need this system doing the driving for me. It is impossible to use the cc with this system, as it keeps slowing down the car. That's my job. I would like to buy a newer Toyota, but because of the Pre-Collision system, I will not unless there is a workaround that won't cause other issues with the car.
Sensors just ruined an entire camping trip so it's disturbing how overly sensitive these spastic alarms. It always brakes when IT SHOULD NOT 7 almost caused an accident. Pre-collison sensors is ridiculously retarded and all these sensors go bad & always need replacing. All they do is ruin road trips/camping and cost ALOT of money having to mess around with dealership. You are not correct, no matter how light or soon you brake it all acts up. It all goes haywire and not good at all and is extremely distressing when you can't go to a car wash without knowing ghow to disable anything. THESE SENSORS ARE VERY STUPID! tell me how you can use the all wheel drive when sensors aren't even allowed to get dirty or they SPAZ OUT MAJORLY FOR NO REASON!
I've never been in an accident in my life - I don't need help from a well-functioning system......the system on my 24 Tacoma is AWFUL and is more dangerous when turned on. It stops and jerks all the time for no reason at all. It's a massive distraction at the most random times!
Toyota's auto brake system will kick in even if you already are braking, and id it doesn't think you're braking enough. It takes control away from you, when you actually were in control of the vehicle and situation. That's what's scary. The assumption on their part is that everyone behind you will also brake, and that's just not the case, so you're open to getting rear ended from behind when it's braking system kicks in.
Try driving in NYC or NJ where if there's 20 feet in front of you someone is going to stuff their car in. Nanny controls are annoying and dangerous. Period. (unless you are a brain dead driver and shouldn't be driving anyway).
If you need a car that brakes itself, keeps you in your lane, parks itself etc. etc. Then you should not be driving any type of car. If I had my way, I would turn all that crap off, permanently. What a big pain in the ass all these "safety" features are. I am just tired of having these features like the automatic braking scaring the living daylights out me and the wife. I don't tailgate anyone. I wish there were cars that were stripped of all the nanny features. Just the other day a bunch of warning lights came on while I was driving. Why? Because snow had covered the front parking sensor. Big pain in the ass.
@@TrainerSteveClifford That was going to be my next sentence. I read somewhere that an ambulance chasing lawyer came up with another pain in the ass feature.....low tire pressure warnings. No way to turn off any of these "safety" features. The only other option is to search for used before the nanny crap phase came in.
Great advice for what should be common sense. I did reduce the sensitivity on mine . If I recall correctly there are 3 settings & mine is set to the center setting. Have a great week, Steve!
My wife loves to drive 'attached' to the car ahead and just won't listen to reason. I drive her Camry in rader-cruise mode everywhere, the car itself does a wonderful job 👍😎✊
Here's the reason why I need this (I'm going to try changing the sensitivity)... my problem is a tomato plant. When I pull out of my garage it's really tight in the alley and I have to make a 3 point turn. My neighbors across the way are growing a tomato plant in the planter by their trash cans and it hangs into the alley. My car won't let me get anywhere close to the tomato plant, making it impossible for me to back up. Once the tomato plant got going I now make a 4 point turn to get out of my garage, lol. It's a little absurd, so thank you for making this video!
@@sandispier that’s actually pretty funny. Thanks
My pcs does not seem to be working despite the settings showing it is on. ????
Thank you!!! My mom's toyota wouldn't even start, lights flashing and making a weird noise. We got stuck in the cold for a good 20 min... until I saw your video. Pressing that damn button for 5 seconds was all that it took for the car to start normally. Had no idea!
The safety system saved me from having a huge accident. It stopped me from hitting the car in front of me but the car behind me hit me and the car was a total loss
What kind of vehicle were you driving?
@@IsraelIvanCastro I'm guessing a Toyota if they were on this video
Steve, I have found that if you go into the PDA (Proactive Driving Assist) setting and Disable the "DA" (Deceleration Assist) setting that even with ALL of the other nanny"s turned and both Sensitivity settings at the maximum 3rd level that my Grand Highlander will not Brake as you come towards another preceding vehicle.
The question is, with this setting off will it still intervene and brake for you if a collision is truly imminent and what is the overall impact and interaction with the other safety systems? 🤔
Yes it will.
I never had any problems with that system. And its on the max seting. I usually always slow down early. I hate having to slam the brakes. It just don't feel that good.
All useful tips! Thank you for the videos. We have used many of your videos for our vehicles!!
I’m curious, on somewhat the same topic, have you figured out how to change the settings for the front cross traffic on vehicles like the Grand Highlander? I haven’t looked too hard but I haven’t seen it yet. It comes on A LOT. Especially at intersections. Pretty annoying.
If you reduce the sensitivity, will it revert to the medium setting when the car is restarted?
I’ve never tried it but I don’t think so. Pretty sure it doesn’t
No. If you have it on the lowest, it’ll stay on the lowest.
But if you turn it off, it doesn’t stay off.
I set mine to max sensitivity in my Highlander Hybrid. But I get 40 mpg so I’m obviously driving wicked mellow anyway.
2018 Camry has the pre collision system malfunction and secondary collision system failure. Got stuck with this 12h from home, so had to leave it at a shop. Shop says it’s a transmission issue and towed it to them. Does that make sense?
I think one of the issues in my 2024 CHR isn't braking to late its the fact the car thinks parked cars (on the left in the UK) have suddenly stopped and this activates the auto braking, to add to this, the LDA tries to pull the car over from the central line towards the parked cars which you have to avoid and then the emergency braking happens - i have almost had other cars crash into the back of me because of this reason. On my 2022 Corolla you could turn this feature off and it would stay off until you manually turned it back on, which i did when i was driving on the motorway but not when city driving. It makes me sad i have to turn these features off every time i get in the car now but i do not trust these features 😞
It needs to do a better job with cross traffic. If I pull out into cross-traffic immediately when a car passes me, it slams on the brakes and I’m stranded sideways in a lane with oncoming traffic.
This…. Or when I let off the brake behind another vehicle at a green light to go and it does it. It’s frustrating. And you get whiplash and a hurt shoulder. 🤷♀️
Yes, I am having this problem even on the lowest sensitivity setting. It is super scary. I have just been disabling it every time I turn on the car which is a complete hassle.
EXACTLY THIS. I’m not even close to the car passing by, it shuts off the accelerator and it turns me into an oncoming obstacle.
Lawsuit waiting to happen! I took into the dealer and they said they could reprogram the system to have a lower sensitivity setting but they were gonna charge me like $1k
I was just in an accident, a car failed to yield right a way and my front riders side hit her. My 4 Runner is in the shop and I get updates every few days regarding the status. Today I got an email saying that a malfunction in the pre collision system has been detected. I feel this should either be a recall or possibly in relation to the accident and be covered by the other driver era insurance.
Thank you for this. Glad to know I can turn the sensitivity down a little bit so that my prius doesn't brake check me because it mistook a road plate for a car 🙃
Not weird. I have a 2023 rav 4.
Bought new. Complete transmission failure and replaced at 3000 miles. Took 5 months. Now I have electrical system warning and power steering failure and collision warning. I don't want this POS to apply the brakes while driving! Only has 5000 miles.
I will NEVER own another Toyota. service has been terrible. Thanks for the hack. I feel a little better now.
Just had a scary and dangerous episode with the PCS on my 2025 Camry XLE. I stopped at a rest area along I-95 South heading to Richmond on a clear bright sunny day. As I was exiting the rest area, heading to merge back on to I-95, there was no one in front of me or behind me. Only clear dry pavement in front of me. Then, out of the blue, my car slammed on the brakes for only a split second! I also heard the warning tone at the same time. It immediately released the brakes and the car was fine for the rest of the trip. BUT! There was no vehicle or obstacle in front of me and fortunately, no vehicle behind me, otherwise I likely would have been rear ended! I just checked the settings. The PCS was set to the medium warning time. I've changed it to the minimum warning time. If this was a once in 10 year occurrence, well, OK. My car is only 5 months old and that means that its likely to do it again before its even one year old. If this had happened at high speed on the interstate, this could have caused a serious accident!
I've googled this and discovered that this has happened to other Toyota owners too. No one in front of them and it slammed on the brakes for a split second. Any ideas? Does Toyota know about this? This is dangerous.
Like your TH-cam Channel - and Yes, otherwise, my 2025 Camry is an excellent car that I'm very happy with (or was very happy with).
Dave Roycraft
Burke, VA
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge.
The warning triggered for me today driving 50 mph with no vehicles or objects around me. I'll be lowering the sensitivity 👍🏻
I started reading the 198 pages on TSS 3.0 in the owners manual and the list of situations where the system may not work or may brake unnecessarily is huge. In fact they seem to work correctly only in ideal weather conditions and ideal road conditions. I regularly drive in situations that Toyota says the system may come on when it isn't needed. How is this safe? Steep hills and curves with undulations and potholes, trees and rock abutments close the the road on sharp curves, changing shade and light conditions. It looks to me like I am safer with the system turned off otherwise it may brake when it should be and might get me in a collision of force me off the road etc. There should be an easier way of turning this function off and on without having to pull over and stop. It seems to me these systems are great for those that live in urban areas and not great for those that live rurally in areas where roads are not paved, straight and without trees etc hanging over.
I live in a rural area with exactly the conditions you describe and the system works quite well. Remember that manuals are written by lawyers who are not describing what is normal. They are describing the absolute worst case. These systems work extremely well and I do not suggest turning them off
Thanks for your reply. I just would rather not have them in a car. I checked with my insurance company and they raise the cost of insurance because they are very expensive to fix, they make windshield replacement excessively expensive (I know someone that paid over $2,000 Canadian for a OEM windshield and recalibration of a camera and I just put a new windshield in my current car for $400.00 Canadian) and based on dealerships I asked you have to fix them if they malfunction or other things on the car won't work properly. If people just paid attention to their driving we wouldn't need these systems. My neighbour had their Blind Spot Monitoring System malfunction and the battery kept dying and the radio and HVAC system were affected and it cost $1,200 to fix. There is no choice now but to have them if you want a new car so I am debating getting a newer used car from a few years back when some of the lower trim models didn't have them. I have read that problems with cars have doubled since all this tech went in and that means one things; higher cost of ownership. @@TrainerSteveClifford
Is there a way to disable it (without doing it manually) when you are going very slow? My anti collision system doesn’t believe I will fit in my garage, but I have 4 inches to spare (and a very effective parking stop).
@@johnniejones8984 that is actually a different system. Go into settings and turn off the parking assist. That stays off
@@TrainerSteveClifford My dealership did not know what to do about the short garage problem. Thanks, for the the solution.
The PCS system in my wife's Toyota 2018 IM activates randomly in clear traffic and alerts & brakes the car with zero obstacles. Super annoying.
Well said, Steve.
It’s not that I wanted to disable it it’s that I drive a 2023 Toyota Camry xse And when traveling from one city to another when it’s snowing it has caused me to have an accident. I am driving safely and under the speed limit and staying clear away from cars as I can but when it gets blocked, it set my car into a slide. I would think that the automotive manufactures would have looked at us before installing everything the way they did. It is extremely dangerous to stop every 15 minutes to try and clear off any cameras or sensors when driving on a highway especially in heavy snow.
Hi Steve, great videos. Hope you come back to them. The automatic braking is the one technology that worries me about my new cc cross. We live 100k from the nearest store. Winter trips home on extreme ice, through moose pasture , can happen any winter. Steering always trumps braking when these animals jump from the ditch and traction is limited. Question - does subtle driver braking over ride hard brakingby the automatic system? Otherwise, it seems my only option is to disable the system in these conditions via traction control button as you described. Thoughts?
Light braking does let the car’s systems know that you’re aware of the circumstances and it means the systems won’t kick in as quickly. If it sees an imminent threat however, it will hammer the brakes if it thinks you don’t have control
@@TrainerSteveClifford Thanks for the quick reply. One last question occurred to me, would the abs activate during an emergency braking incident, which system has priority?
@@davidhowe9510 ABS absolutely will kick in with manual or automatic braking. No way around that
@@TrainerSteveClifford Excellent! Thanks very much. Knowing what to expect is huge. Your knowledge is invaluable.
Thank you. Mine was automatic off after 15 mins of on
what is breaking at the last second ?
He probably means tailgating, careless use or lack of depth perception, excessive speed, or all of the above.
This no doubt defines at least 25% of drivers today.
How do you cut back on
@@shiney6h21p hit the traction control button or turn off and restart the car
I only need to turn it off when back in up from a parking space or into my driveway. We have a mobility scooter and rack on the back that is showing as something in the way. NONE of these suggestions are working for this problem. Very frustrating and scary to have the brakes slam on. I am backing up very slowly and it still slams the brakes.
Your issue is not part of the pre-collision system. It is part of the parking assist. You need to turn off the setting called "PKSB" in your settings menu. Your parking system sees the rack and thinks there is a person or obstacle.
@@TrainerSteveClifford I will try that. Thank you! I’m so frustrated…
Got a 2024 cross and getting it checked up next week. System is very invasive. Applies brakes way too early or not at all even at a very slow speed. It is a very anoying system to me. Accidients have happened before and unfortunately, they will still happen with or because of all the sensors and security systems.
My parents used to own 4Runner and PCS is set to MAX and PCS never kicks in because my parents drive carefully and brake early
Most people hate PCS because they don’t know how to drive carefully and brake early, Most people drive hard and brake very late that’s why PCS kicks in
Thank you for suggesting women learn to stop tailgating people.
That was very tactfully done.
@@psalmistinprogress9089 i said nothing about women. Drivers… drivers who experience frequent intervention from the PCS need to ease up, regardless of chromosomes
My 2020 Tacoma flashes brake whenever it’s raining
Great advice!
I know someone who owned brand new Kia and his crash sensors threw him off the road at 70mph with absolutely nothing in front of him! So I'm not so sure, if those systems are that safe.
I would disable all of the nuisance alarms permanently if I could. It might also change my mind in what car I buy next time. Don't want all that crap.
@@johnpuccetti6019 considering that anything that can’t be permanently turned off is due to federal regulations, you might have a hard time with any brand. It will only get worse as car manufacturers try to comply with ever more intrusive regulations.
The problem is these systems intermittently brake when there is nothing around! At least that’s the issue we have with our Honda. Ours has brought us to a full stop no cars, people, or animals around. A dark shadow from a house or tree seems to be capable of activating this crap. It’s a problem across multiple manufacturers. It’s a sucky system
Ever try backing up in an empty field..
This is why I bought a 2013 Prius for my last car instead of a newer one, as I have rented Toyotas with this feature and it absolutely sucks. I have been driving in SoCal for more than 40 years and can pretty much predict when someone is going to move into my lane and am pretty good at being able to move into another lane without having to slow down. If I drive with the cruse control, I won't have to keep accelerating and will also save gas. I do not need this system doing the driving for me. It is impossible to use the cc with this system, as it keeps slowing down the car. That's my job. I would like to buy a newer Toyota, but because of the Pre-Collision system, I will not unless there is a workaround that won't cause other issues with the car.
Is this the system that Toyota charges you $800 or more dollars after the three year free trial expires.
What? No! Safety is not optional with Toyota
Sensors just ruined an entire camping trip so it's disturbing how overly sensitive these spastic alarms. It always brakes when IT SHOULD NOT 7 almost caused an accident. Pre-collison sensors is ridiculously retarded and all these sensors go bad & always need replacing. All they do is ruin road trips/camping and cost ALOT of money having to mess around with dealership. You are not correct, no matter how light or soon you brake it all acts up. It all goes haywire and not good at all and is extremely distressing when you can't go to a car wash without knowing ghow to disable anything. THESE SENSORS ARE VERY STUPID! tell me how you can use the all wheel drive when sensors aren't even allowed to get dirty or they SPAZ OUT MAJORLY FOR NO REASON!
I've never been in an accident in my life - I don't need help from a well-functioning system......the system on my 24 Tacoma is AWFUL and is more dangerous when turned on. It stops and jerks all the time for no reason at all. It's a massive distraction at the most random times!
@@junyer24 after you sure you don’t have PDA turned on? Go into your settings and make sure that is off. It will stay off
Toyota's auto brake system will kick in even if you already are braking, and id it doesn't think you're braking enough. It takes control away from you, when you actually were in control of the vehicle and situation. That's what's scary.
The assumption on their part is that everyone behind you will also brake, and that's just not the case, so you're open to getting rear ended from behind when it's braking system kicks in.
Try driving in NYC or NJ where if there's 20 feet in front of you someone is going to stuff their car in. Nanny controls are annoying and dangerous. Period. (unless you are a brain dead driver and shouldn't be driving anyway).
Just too much talking. TH-cam instruction videos are great when they get right to the point.
A bird hit my car
If you need a car that brakes itself, keeps you in your lane, parks itself etc. etc. Then you should not be driving any type of car. If I had my way, I would turn all that crap off, permanently. What a big pain in the ass all these "safety" features are. I am just tired of having these features like the automatic braking scaring the living daylights out me and the wife. I don't tailgate anyone. I wish there were cars that were stripped of all the nanny features. Just the other day a bunch of warning lights came on while I was driving. Why? Because snow had covered the front parking sensor. Big pain in the ass.
@@hec51 all hail our benevolent bureaucrats in DC ;)
@@TrainerSteveClifford That was going to be my next sentence. I read somewhere that an ambulance chasing lawyer came up with another pain in the ass feature.....low tire pressure warnings. No way to turn off any of these "safety" features. The only other option is to search for used before the nanny crap phase came in.