The roadsign recognition in the Netherlands is pretty spot on! 80% of the time I check when I pass a sign and it instantly updates. If even shows 100 (TIME) on the dash because here you can drive 130kmh after 7PM and 100 between 6 AM and 7PM. I really love the Pilot Assist, been doing 1,5 hour drives on it with just Pilot Assist. If you put your knee gently to the steering wheel that's enough, or lean a finger on either side of the wheel. Once you get to know its limitations it feels like a very nice collab between you and the car. Definantly made me arrive more relaxed then the usual 1,5h drive! I hear that they want to make lane assist tech mandatory by 2030 here which I think is a good thing! Also the fact that even with it disengaged, if you hit the side markings of the road it will gently steer you back! And if it happens 3 or 4 times it triggers the driver alert warning, time to stop for coffee! 😁 Tested that! Awesome video once again!

You can increase/ decrease the ACC speed in 1mph increments too by pressing and holding on the + or - buttons on the left of the steering wheel

@ShortCircuitPS2

3 жыл бұрын

Ah OK, I hadn't spotted this and will give it a try tomorrow

@b03tz

3 жыл бұрын

Same as volvo!

I've got a test drive line up for this car..in Jan. Enjoying your review ongoing reviews. Good stuff 👍🏽👍🏽

We couldnt figure out the distance setting but thanks to you we now know how to - Thanks Bradley - Nick

Another nice demonstration. Thanks for the effort you put into producing these. I hope they get the speed limit recognition sorted. That would be a super useful feature on some of my journeys. Not ordered one yet, waiting for a test drive to be organised within a reasonable drive of East Anglia but your videos are certainly tempting me towards placing an order sooner! Would it be possible to do a comparison of the economy on a journey using ACC vs one without it?

Well done on the 1000 subs 👍

@ShortCircuitPS2

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

I think it's a great and informative video. I have one BUT which is not related to your video perse but the fact that this technology is being demonstrated as being a novelty. I own a 2016 VW Touran which is already equipped (not standard) with both Adaptive Cruise Control, with Active Lane Assist and also Traffic Jam Assist. Combined I think is even more than what the Polestar 2 offers in the year 2022. As long as I hold my hands on the steering wheel, it does exactly the same as the Pilot Assist, keep you in lane and at a distance to the car in front of use, using also radar and camera (Bosch technology actually). Traffic Jam Assist even means that if you drive less than -I believe- 12 kp/h - crawl speed- you don't even have to hold the steering wheel in a traffic jam. On top if, the car is equipped - and I tested it- with a system that will automatically slow down and bring the car to a full stop if the car thinks you are incapacitated. I.e. when you don't hold the steering wheel for 12 seconds, it will first start with an audio warning, then later a second audio warning, followed by briefly hitting the brakes -to try to shake you up and wake you up-. In stead of just disengaging, which is what most cars do, it will actually then turn on the emergency indicators, move the car to the slowest lane(!) or the shoulder and bring the car to a controlled stop. Again, this is a system from 2016. With functions I actually don't see in most modern cars. I might make a video about it to demonstrate it.

I also have mine set to ACC - just have to remember to turn it off when leaving a motorway or duel carriage way. My wife likes using the Limit setting around towns as the radar she thinks, seems more constant there, other than I would say not picking up 20mph limits quite often.

Surprised this tech is being discussed as new. This has been around for quite a while. My 2014 Golf had ACC and my 2018 Tiguan had lane assist and sign recognition. These should now be standard features IMO.

Great insight into actual Polestar 2 ownership and congratulations on 1k subs All the videos showing P2 are very positive but the huge downside is lack of availability ! If I’m spending 50k I want to kick the tyres, sit in it and drive it on an extended run (couple of days)! P2 is performance division of Volvo who are owned by Chinese company Geely therefore every town has a Volvo dealership. So I should be able to go to my local Volvo dealer....having one showroom and travelling live roadshows just ain’t good enough. My local dealer tells me they’ll service it, we’ll they should sell it as well !!!

@ShortCircuitPS2

3 жыл бұрын

Yes totally understand, lack of access to view and test out is a big issue for sure!

Looking forward to trying this out. Thanks for the demo. Now, if only my boot (mainly under the divider flap and in the lower boot) would stop filling up with water. Can't work out where the water ingres is from. I'm guessing it's the rubber gasket around the hatch opening that has a defect and is letting water on from somewhere. The pull handle to raise the boot up to reveal the lower boot was filled with later, though strangely no water actually on top of the boot material. Just under the divider flap and in the lower boot! Totally weird!

Had my Polestar 2 for about 6 months now and stopped using Pilot Assist almost entirely. It's tried to kill me multiple times. Anyone else experienced it turning into a turn or ignoring obvious and clearly defined turning roads? Anyone experienced it wanting to position the car so passenger side wheels are ON the dotted lane division?

I love your reviews on polestar. I think it’s called Adaptive Cruise Control

Is there a minimum speed limit at which you can set or enable the (adaptive) cruise control? For example in my e-Golf I couldn't set it below 20 (kmh) even though the adaptive part would slow you to 0 and bring you up to speed again. In some other cars you can't even enable the cruise control until you've passed a certain threshold (sigh). So how is that for the Polestar 2? Also thanks for the videos, I greatly enjoy watching them and am definitely reconsidering the Void now. It looks stunning in your videos 😍

I’ve a Kia E Niro and it has all of those driver assistance modes, I’ve even found that coming up to a round about with a car in front slowing down I slow down, then as I enter the roundabout the car realises and as I go around the roundabout it doesn’t try to speed up until I’ve extended the roundabout.

Great insight into the features …shame you’re breaking the law to record it with your phone while driving though.

My XC60 knows when I am on a motorway and tells me the limit of 70 but also recognises variable limits on motorways as well. I’m surprised that the Polestar doesn’t seem to do that. Hope they fix it as I’m ordering one for August delivery. Where the Volvo fails badly on telling me speed limits is in towns where the limit varies from 20 to 30.

Pilot Assist on my XC 60 is great. On a service visit I got a new V90 for the day it’s Pilot Assist braked the car into corners without a car being in front. Does the Polestar do this? It’s a feature which Volvo didn’t add to my car on the service visit .

Another great video. Just the right length to hold my attention. I only wish you would have included some info on the position and number of cameras that the system utilizes. I will search for it on Google. I'm a tech head, so I enjoy comparing systems with the one that I have on my car. I paid for the FSD upgrade and I'm hoping Tesla rolls out the beta version to us as a Christmas gift.

@ShortCircuitPS2

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, yeah I actually need to do some more research but even polestar seem unable to share proper information! The tesla system is very impressive and I love the main display with more details info

If you press and hold you can go up and down by 1mph increment rather than the 5mph on a quick press.

how did you get the vehicle to show up in the middle?

Surprised the road sign recognition isn't better as it works very well on my XC90 which does also use GPS data

How do you get the display that shows the birds eye view of a P2 in the centre of the screen, I can’t see that is displayed on mine when using these features?

My sign recognition system is also all over the place, I would say right about 405 of the time. Also the one thing it is consistent with (which is annoying) - is that its picks up the speed signs on the back of lorries!

My XC90 is pretty spot on... Bummer the Polestar isn’t. Maybe a future OTA will fix.

Similar to my XC60. It works well in stop/start traffic too, but be aware that once the car stops you need to select the a Pilot assist button on the left of the steering wheel. Prior to an update, it felt like the car was on the sea due to it possibly calculating the accurate middle of the lane position. Is a good system. Good video once again.

@TheAlexingram

3 жыл бұрын

In my XC60 if it comes to a stop in traffic I just have to tap the accelerator and it'll be back to normal pilot assist

@actuallypaulstanley

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheAlexingram will see if that is the same for mine, since I have become accustomed to using the steering Pilot Assist wheel button. The Volvo Connected Safety feature was added about a year or so ago, whereby if another Volvo ahead on the same road puts their hazard lights on or detects slippery conditions will notify other nearby Volvos.

If anyone else was wondering - the active cruise control works to a stop & will accelerate from a stop without issues. Great for stop and go traffic.

I totally agree that the speed-limit recognition needs fixing. I think it does use both camera and map data and, in my experience, the camera works fine but the map data is hopeless (at least in the UK). I really like the speed limiter function (and it would be even better if the speed-limit recognition was improved so that the auto speed limiter could be used). I also like the adaptive cruise control, but unfortunately it requires navigating through the central screen menus to switch between speed limiter and adaptive cruise control, so I rarely use adaptive cruise control. I have yet to find any use for the pilot assist. Sure, it seems to work well at recognising the lanes, but what's the point if you have to apply force to the steering wheel yourself anyway? If you're doing that, you might as well be steering unassisted.

@farodopi5170

11 ай бұрын

yeah totally agree. too bad they didn't add 1 specific button for each of the 2. One for the cruise control (no matter if it's adaptive or classic) and one for the speed limiter. Having to go to the menu is a bit annoying. So i ended up putting by default the SL for the city where it makes more sense. And on the highway i switch it to cruise control. But i guess at least we get a speed limiter unlike Tesla which only has a Speed Limit Mode which forces you to even put a PIN number only to activate it.

How to get the additional details in the middle of the driver display??? It is empty for me and I am only able to switch between navigation map and more or less blank screen in the middle ... would be great to get you help, please!

We found out the other day that if you press and hold the speed change button it then goes into single figure increments rather than the 5 that seems to be the default

@ShortCircuitPS2

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I'm pleased to hear that and will give that a try today.

Limit does also not work in Sweden. Driving at 110km/h on the motorway and it spots a 50km/h sign from a route out of the motorway suddenly you go 50km/h on the motorway.

Hmm, i don`t know where to find the Driver Support page. The active speed limiter could be useful where i live because the road sign "recognition" is very accurate here.

@Musketeer009

3 жыл бұрын

'Here' being where?

How do you activate that display? I only have Google Maps on or of. Software P2.4

I find the Pilot Assist kinda worthless when you have to keep your hands on the steering wheel all the time anyway... so I never use it unfortunately. The active cruise control is very nice though (with the lowest distance settings = one bar). So instead of using Pilot Assist you could just use the ACC together with lane assist (if you want the car to stay in the lane by itself) and the car drive itself without warning when you take your hands of the wheel.

1:50 I noticed during my testdrive, that if you press and hold the faster/slower cruise buttons, you can switch from 5 step change to 1 step change...

If you've got the ACC or Pilot Assist enabled will the car come to a complete stop if traffic slows down to a complete stop? I've not been brave enough to try it...

@ShortCircuitPS2

3 жыл бұрын

Yes it does, I've tried it a few times although it scares me every time as it leaves it a bit later to slow to a stop than I personally would do!

@blondebier

3 жыл бұрын

@@ShortCircuitPS2 Thanks. I can't help myself but apply the brake. It doesn't feel like it's going to stop. It feels like a risky little game. 😂

Mine sign recognition works great. 80-90%

So will this change lanes for you if you have hands on the wheel?

@rikh8796

3 жыл бұрын

It won't be changing lanes for you. Using the indicator signal will temporarily disable lane assist, then you can change lanes, it will pick up the lane change and re-enable the lane assist. See around 3:53.

@Braunalita

3 жыл бұрын

@@rikh8796 Thank you Rik.

@rikh8796

3 жыл бұрын

@@Braunalita Sure no problem 👍🏻

Pilot Assist on my V90 is poor at taking bends and tends to keep the car too close to the left on motorways. Looks like the same system.

@b03tz

3 жыл бұрын

In Holland we drive on the right side of the road and sometimes I feel like it hugs the right side a bit too muchtl, specially when overtaking a wide truck or something. First time I felt like countersteering but there's still enough room. But if I overtake myself I would take a bit more distance then the car does naturally.

Maybe it's picking up the max speed signs from trucks/trailers...

Who ever uses LIM? I seems like it is just in cars in general to confuse less experienced drivers activating it by mistake ;)

Dude are you seriously doing this whilst driving?