FOD: ALK dowloaded - feels somewhat erratic

[Murph7355]

Pong covers it IME.

It's possibly very road dependent, but with something like this it means it can't be trusted.

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[Archimedes]

LKA is extremely annoying and does little other than alert you that you are close to the side of the lane. It does no active steering from what I could tell with mine.

Oh it absolutely does. That’s what I hate about it. It wants to correct when you’re not even on the line. It was constantly intervening for me when it was unnecessary. Luckily it can be shut off or my Taycan would be long gone.

 

[gtm]

Oh it absolutely does. That’s what I hate about it. It wants to correct when you’re not even on the line. It was constantly intervening for me when it was unnecessary. Luckily it can be shut off or my Taycan would be long gone.

Didn't phrase my reply well. LKA is a complete pain in the ass with the way it deals with getting close to the edge of a lane. Like you, I very quickly turned it off. It's not capable of doing even a small portion of what ALK does.

 

[bluesky]

I think there is big confusion between LKA and ALK, and that’s understandable given the similar acronyms and wording, and a frequent misunderstanding of what LKA is supposed to do.

LKA is really just there to help keep a driver from leaving the marked lane, and complains and makes a gross steering correction to keep you from exiting the lane when you appear to be on a course to leave it. It’s broken out separately in FOD so that it’s possible to get it without the added expense and build-time installation of ACC

LKA ISN”T supposed to keep you centered in the lane automatically (that’s ALK). The ”ping-pong” behavior is EXACTLY all that LKA promises to do, as it veers away from lane departure on one side and then most likely next on the other side. The inattentive, sleepy or uncoordinated driver is supposed to notice that their lane keeping is getting sloppy and start steering better. LKA isn’t driving the car, isn’t trying to stay centered in the lane. It’s just sort of trying to keep the car from leaving the lane (like while distracted perhaps operating the PCM to say, adjust air vents that should have just been manually controllable…)

I think many people may have confused these two systems, may not really be sure which system they have enabled, and what to expect out of it.

 

[r0b1n]

Based in England, and I use ALK pretty frequently, not only on the motorways. I think it does a good job even on more minor roads without a centre line it still does a great guidance job. InnoDrive... now that is completely useless as far as I can tell, simply interferes with driving in all the wrong ways and ends up needing even more attention to override it's strange decision making.

 

[Jonathan S.]

Based in England, and I use ALK pretty frequently, not only on the motorways. I think it does a good job even on more minor roads without a centre line it still does a great guidance job. InnoDrive... now that is completely useless as far as I can tell, simply interferes with driving in all the wrong ways and ends up needing even more attention to override it's strange decision making.

I've used ALK only our U.S. interstates, not secondary highways, but sure seems fine to me.
InnoDrive, exactly my impressions! I definitely won't be paying for that once the FOD trial ends.

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