2022 Tahoe Automatic Emergency Braking

[ZKWBQD]

Noticed this Automatic Emergency Braking feature in the settings which is set to Alert and Brake. There’s been numerous times my Tahoe thinks I’m approaching a vehicle in front too quickly and it will alert me but it has never auto-braked. Is there any real way to tell if this feature even works? Obviously I don’t want to wreck it trying to test.

My wife has an Infiniti and it has auto-braking and it is quite obvious when it brakes for you.

My experience is the same as yours. I don't know a safe way to test it. Mine will sometimes give me an alert when there are parked cars on a curve.

 

[tahoe81]

Could you get a big cardboard box and see if it stops before hitting it to test the brakes.

Yeah I suppose I could do that. That would an interesting test actually

 

[tahoe81]

My experience is the same as yours. I don't know a safe way to test it. Mine will sometimes give me an alert when there are parked cars on a curve.

Mine does the same. Alerts like crazy going around a curve when a vehicle is parked on the road. Still no braking though, ever.

 

[tahoe81]

I find it super dangerous inadequate tech, like all of the tech features on my truck, and turned it off. When it was on, it loved things that were yellow like school busses and big curve signs and would flash and brake when I passed them. Not every time, but often enough that it was unacceptable. The lane keeping assist "drives like a drunk person" according to my 15 year old daughter and is equally useless. No warning indicators on the mirrors, which I could actually use, but these useless things that don't work and should never have been released to the public half-developed, and the autostop (which I disabled) instead.

After 2.5 years and 50K miles I have learned to live with the tech but my next truck will be a custom built GMT 400 done the way I want. It will be half the price of new without all of the BS on it.

I've wondered about turning off the autostop. I feel like since it's enabled by default that it makes sense to leave it on even if the gas savings is minimal, but then again knowing how everything else is built on this vehicle, who knows what damage all the starting and stopping is doing LOL

Hey, but at least you know your auto-brake works. Mine flashes at me like crazy around curves and things, but has never once in 2.5 years braked. The lane assist is okay by me. I don't let it drive for me or anything, but the times I've maybe not paid 100% attention and drifted one way or the other, it's brought me back to the middle. It's not perfect by any means though. I'm pretty certain mine does in fact have warning indicators on the mirrors though for blind spot. Is that what you're referring to?