I have recently bought a 2016 4.4 V8 Range Rover Autobiography with HUD and despite road sign recognition featuring in the owner's handbook, the facility is completely missing from the Driving Features drop down menu.Not only that but satnav doesn't show speed limits either. I want it to function for a planned Europe road trip.
Shimsteriom
Master Procrastinator
Welcome 
Thank you, love spending time in IOMWelcome
I was hoping that there may have been someone on here with something useful to say.
Datatek
Well-Known Member
You don't think paying attention while you drive is useful? Or learning the important road signs of the countries you intend to visit is useful? Lord protect us.
However did I manage touring Europe on a motorcycle without sign recognition.
Given the inherent unreliability of JLR electronics, even if it seems to work it may not flag up an important sign.
Western Slope Rover
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Not around here. Didn't you see the sign on the way in?
No, lamentably I didn't. Such a shame.
Western Slope Rover
Well-Known Member
Well, that cinches it. Your sign recognition is broke.
Go with Datatek's suggestion.
That doesn't help in France where the signs are wrong!
Shimsteriom
Master Procrastinator
Aha, so that explains why the French drivers are all nutters!
Whilst it may be in the handbook, doesn't mean your model has this feature....handbooks are mostly generic and cover all features fro all models...and you then read the parts that are applicable to your vehicle.
My suggestion would be to contact your local dealer with the VIN number and see if it was indeed a feature of your vehicle...if it was then investigate further....
Landyzone isn't your usual vehicle forum, mickey taking is commonplace and a thick skin is advised (it's in the Welcome post on the main forum page) so take some comments with good humour and join in.
Best of luck!
My suggestion would be to contact your local dealer with the VIN number and see if it was indeed a feature of your vehicle...if it was then investigate further....
Landyzone isn't your usual vehicle forum, mickey taking is commonplace and a thick skin is advised (it's in the Welcome post on the main forum page) so take some comments with good humour and join in.
Best of luck!
Sorry about this chaps and lady type chaps but feel the need to mention that other forum fullfatrr again, have a look on there @el-tel they have a l405 section you might find something on there (I wouldnt know, never look on it far to new for me). @Saint.V8 got it right re thick skin and @Tigger Eeyore & Roo is doing his best to get the L405 up there.
Tigger Eeyore & Roo
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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.
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.
Trench Rat
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Get a series. Then you never need to worry about speeding.
Datatek
Well-Known Member
I know someone actually caught out like that with an aftermarket GPS, it missed the speed sign and 100 metres later he was flashed."You are charged with doing 75 MPH in a 30 MPH zone, how do you plead?" "Not guilty your honour, my road sign recognition device had failed. "Obviously not your fault then case dismissed".
Tigger Eeyore & Roo
Well-Known Member
A Series should certainly cure it
But, in a country where the police are obsessed with speed limits over everything else, it’s good to have technology help you out with the mindless robotics of looking out for speed signs, freeing up the driver up to do the more important things - like not driving into stuff!
But, in a country where the police are obsessed with speed limits over everything else, it’s good to have technology help you out with the mindless robotics of looking out for speed signs, freeing up the driver up to do the more important things - like not driving into stuff!
Datatek
Well-Known Member
If you can miss a road sign, you can also miss a child an animal or a pot hole, concentration and observation semms to be sadly lacking in most drivers. You could always buy a Tesla, put it on auto pilot and do something more interesting while it speeds into the back of a truck on the motorway.A Series should certainly cure it
But, in a country where the police are obsessed with speed limits over everything else, it’s good to have technology help you out with the mindless robotics of looking out for speed signs, freeing up the driver up to do the more important things - like not driving into stuff!
Yep, seems like every "advance" made in motoring these days is designed to make the driver lazier and less-responsibleIf you can miss a road sign, you can also miss a child an animal or a pot hole, concentration and observation semms to be sadly lacking in most drivers. You could always buy a Tesla, put it on auto pilot and do something more interesting while it speeds into the back of a truck on the motorway.
