L405 Road sign recognition missing

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Our vehicles merely warn the driver that they are exceeding the speed limit, but I believe some actually apply the brakes if the driver does not respond. There are signs on the A9 that indicate that lorries may do 50mph and as these are recognised road signs, other vehicles such as our Ford Ranger pick up on them and "think" that the driver is speeding, when they are not. If such signs were to cause unexpected and unnecessary braking the result could be carnage....and who would be to blame???
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Tigger Eeyore & Roo said:
Mine’s a 2017 Autobiography, so both the hardware and software are different, but your ought to have speed sign recognition (which, while not flawless, is still damn useful), though even my 2017 doesn’t have a database of speed limits in the satnav.
Did you buy it from a LR dealer? It sounds like a software update might be in order. If yours hasn’t been done since 2016, it’ll be very out of date. The software is continually being updated and revised and this would definitely be my first course of action. I’d push for a free software update if you bought it from a main dealer.
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hi buddy

hope all is well

does seem with the modern landies everything needs to be turned on, think that’s why many of us buy on own diagnostics to stop the robbing JLR pulling our trousers down, lol

local dealer now wants £180 per hour plus vat

https://www.ownerinfo.landrover.com/document/LK/2016/T19956/18682_en_GBR/proc/G1797165

ps, don’t know if it’s true but does the L405 also come with heated wipers
 
gstuart said:
hi buddy

hope all is well

does seem with the modern landies everything needs to be turned on, think that’s why many of us buy on own diagnostics to stop the robbing JLR pulling our trousers down, lol

local dealer now wants £180 per hour plus vat

https://www.ownerinfo.landrover.com/document/LK/2016/T19956/18682_en_GBR/proc/G1797165

ps, don’t know if it’s true but does the L405 also come with heated wipers
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They come with a winter mode which changes where they park so they don't freeze
 
kermit_rr said:
They come with a winter mode which changes where they park so they don't freeze
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cheers , have just added some heated windscreen washer jets , it only took me nearly 2 x days to add them because I had to open up the main fuse box , inc buying a second hand loom

yeh i know , I need to get out more ;)

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My discovery 2 from 2001 has the same but slightly more advanced version of that system.....it recognizes that I've seen the speed limit sign and complies, or should I say responds accordingly when I get on the brakes.

Not to rain down on the OPs parade, but as others have said, I find modern advances in vehicle technology are starting to border on the ridiculous now.
Have you heard of instances where people having become so dependent on those auto-braking systems that have driven into cyclists and kids on scooters because it didn't recognize them as obstacles? That's just crazy!

I read such stuff and I cant imagine approaching an object whiles driving and not having the impulse to get on the brakes.....does that still count as driving?

Talking about crazy....ford started putting timing/drive belts into the engine, immersed in oil - as if life trying to put their stuff right when they break isn't already complex enough.
 
ifloochies said:
All that for heated washer jets?!:eek::eek:
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couldn't agree more, it was supposed to be a straight forward job, with the spare connection inside the main fuse box, nope, one second hand loom later , many many hours later they were fitted, lol

also got the D4 heated jets as there better than the D3

but at the end of the day indeed agree was a lot of work just for heaters but must admit it drove me insane every time driving down the motorway and couldn’t wash the screen because the jets had frozen
 
Sorry @Tigger Eeyore & Roo got to disagree with you on this one. They're a damn nuisance and a distraction. I've been driving all sorts, of brand new vehs recently, because I want to keep mileage down on the Golden Girl. The only useful modern tech I have found in any of them , was the heads up speed display on the Volvo. Due to my seating position , (which , for the smart alecks , no is not with seat in sleeping position, quite the opposite) I often find the steering wheel obscures the dash speed display. Being a bit of a stickler for speed limits, that becomes a nuisance.
The speed sign function is pointless. With smart motorways, motorway/A/B road roadworks, all causing changes to the designated speed limit, at a moment's notice, the alert driver's point of reference should be the signs, at that time, on the road they are driving. Not some piece of software that could be years, months, weeks, days, or even minutes out of date.
 
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