[randomperson295r104-]

Hi! I was hoping to throw this out here and see if anyone has had this happen before.
I have a 2022 Taos S fully loaded, I am a co-driver on it. Today, the other owner was driving it and accidentally backed up into another vehicle. The car didn't alert in any way nor did it break when the vehicle was very clearly in the red area of the backup camera.
Fully driver responsibility for not paying attention, but I am curious if the system has done this to anyone else before and how you addressed it. We are a bit nervous about it now because this is a scenario that we wanted the rear collision warning for, and it didn't act as it was supposed to, and now we have a nice dent to show for it :/
Thanks in advance!

 

[CorradoG60]

Was the other car moving? The alert is only for MOVING obstructions behind and there is no rear collision braking system.

The camera is there for a reason. It’s your job not to back into stationary objects.

 

[randomperson295r104-]

Oh gotcha! It was stationary. It was advertised to us as it would stop the car if it got too close to any object to the rear, so I guess that was a misunderstanding. Thank you

 

[derekdal]

actually, some versions of the taos will brake for stationary objects when backing up, I have to turn off the collision braking when my bike rack is attached. i'm not sure what a fully loads taos S is, that is an oxymoron. Fully loaded would be as SEL.. there is also collision detection for cross traffic (moving), which is a different function and its possible that a trim level could have one or both of these.

 

[CorradoG60]

Does yours have backup sensors or just rear traffic alert. Without backup sensors, the car can’t brake in reverse. Rear traffic alert uses the blind spot monitor system to detect moving things.

 

[derekdal]

I think the SEL has both systems. I know it has back up sensors and it did slam on the brakes when it thought I was going to hit the attached bike rack.