I was under the impression that "Hold Steering Wheel" was supposed to appear when the car was having trouble reading the road. But that does not appear to be the case.
Does anyone know what triggers it, and why it won't go away before we actually "hold" the steering wheel? Is it to meet regulations? Does it differ in USA and EU?
My experience: I was testing the car under very bad conditions (heavy rain/dark) on small roads. The message never appeared, even though the car had a super hard time reading the road (tried to drive off the road 10+ times). I only got the last second, audible alert every time with no "heads up" before. I expected to get the "Hold steering wheel" when it was having trouble reading the road.
But when driving on a nice road with perfect lane markings, and the car reading the road very well, I keep getting this message every few minutes for "no apparent reason". To me, the car feels like it reads the road with no problem, which is confirmed if I don't hold the steering wheel - because it will continue to drive perfectly fine. Until it actually starts to slow down and changing message to "Hold steering wheel to maintain set speed". If the reasoning for this message was that it was uncertain about the road, the message should dissapear when it got certain about the road again... Anyway, this message feels like a regulation requirement to me... Ruins the experience a little bit :-/
Does anyone know what triggers it, and why it won't go away before we actually "hold" the steering wheel? Is it to meet regulations? Does it differ in USA and EU?
My experience: I was testing the car under very bad conditions (heavy rain/dark) on small roads. The message never appeared, even though the car had a super hard time reading the road (tried to drive off the road 10+ times). I only got the last second, audible alert every time with no "heads up" before. I expected to get the "Hold steering wheel" when it was having trouble reading the road.
But when driving on a nice road with perfect lane markings, and the car reading the road very well, I keep getting this message every few minutes for "no apparent reason". To me, the car feels like it reads the road with no problem, which is confirmed if I don't hold the steering wheel - because it will continue to drive perfectly fine. Until it actually starts to slow down and changing message to "Hold steering wheel to maintain set speed". If the reasoning for this message was that it was uncertain about the road, the message should dissapear when it got certain about the road again... Anyway, this message feels like a regulation requirement to me... Ruins the experience a little bit :-/