The Skodillac - Superb 1.5 TSI DSG SE

I’ve never used the self parking on my car. Too emasculating isn’t it?
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I still get a little tingle from a two move park.
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I've been and had a play/rummage in menus etc, and I think my car only has "front assist" when on the move, there doesn't seem to be an option for "side assist", so no little orange light for me sadly.

I did notice last night, however, that High Beam Assist worked really well. Maybe a fraction slower than I'd be myself to dip, especially on a twisty where I know a car is in front round the bend and I would dip before I blinded their mirror. But probably about as good as I could expect a dumb system to be. And the lights themselves. My God let there be light. I've been driving around behind candles my whole life, I think.

Cruise is advertised as Adaptive, but it still strayed above the set speed on downhills, which is disappointing, and the Limiter is about the same as the Civic's in that it appears to take my limit setting as a guide to be ignored when it feels like it and then flash a symbol furiously at me to do something, Muttley. Do any cars get these things right?

Volvo system is excellent, never runs away on downhill sections which my Ford can do by a few Kms over the posted limit whether on adaptive or intelligent cruise.

Downside is the Volvo system is not adaptive therefore need to stay alert to traffic around you.

Both cars work on cc up to 200kph. Never feel comfortable at that speed on cruise unless the road is empty. 130-160kph is my comfort zone.

If you had the side-assist you'd see symbols on the mirror glass that shows there is a car alongside. It relies on radar in the rear bumper to detect cars coming alongside but it also warns you (and will stop the car when reversing) of cars approaching from either side.

It was optional on all Superbs back when I ordered a car apart from the top of the line L&K. It's probably still standard on the L&K.

It was handy when reversing out of a parking space when either side was a big SUV or van blocking your view over your shoulder. Plus people at my Tesco Extra tended not to stop to let people out of a space.

If you have a rear view camera that allows a few different view modes. Or it did. There's the standard but you can set it to wide-view/fisheye so you can see a bit to the left/right when reversing. And there's a top down view looking down which is aimed at hitching a trailer/caravan but handy for some reversing scenarios.

Pretty sure the icons/images which lit up in the mirrors were a car or cars to show there's something alongside. I have the same on the Mazda6. If you had it then it would alert you of cars approaching from either side when reversing.

I had the four sensors on the front and rear for parking and also the two either side. It was for park assist but if you went down a narrow bit of road they would immediately warn you how close you were to things either side. That was why I got them as I didn't think much of park assist when I tried it on a demo Passat years earlier. But park assist got a lot better in that time.

I also had folding door mirrors mainly because of one narrow road I'd go down practically every day. They didn't really stick out more than the wheel arches but helped avoid other door mirrors. Also folding them in and stopping whilst someone passed... if they hit you, then you had done more than enough to avoid a collision and it was their fault

What did you do if someone employed the same tactic ? That would be quite the standoff on a narrow road.