Punched and shattered company unit

I just unplugged mine at the sensor. No more beeping and no slamming on the brakes because of a tin can

 

The time you have the most control over is that which you spend stopped. Once you are rolling, it is purely dictated by your environment. Work your stopped time ruthlessly and accept your rolling time for what it is.

Driving is relaxing. You just have to stop trying to control the weather and stop trying to drive everyone else's vehicle for them, or worse, try to "educate" them.

What will happen is what will happen. That dumb deer will run out in front of you, that four wheeler will cut you off. And it will rain. And traffic will back up in the morning and the evening. And water is wet. And your taxes will go up...

Control what you can control and accept the rest. But I would definitely disable the audio on that nanny system as well.

 

I have driven 3 million miles without the beeping. I drove one those trucks equipped with all that so called safety stuff and one cannot rely on your reflexes with it in there. I took the truck back, it was brand new, and told them I couldnt drive it unless they shut off the braking thing. The line beeping indicator would beep when I was in the left lane and staying next to the outside because I was passing traffic. and the blind spot indicator would be making noise about something I never figured out. The brakes would slow the truck down when a vehicle 2/10 of mile in front of me slowed down. I have a new truck without those things. My new truck has a "rollover detector". It tells you after you straighten up from the corner that you need to slow down in the corner. I have gone around most of the corners for over 20 years and never had a rollover. How does it help anyone. The things they were saying they were going to repair on my new truck were all electronic. My 70 mph truck wont average 64 on the interstate, unless it is flat ground on CC. CC is no longer useful because they have it doing something else. It is a 475 detroit with dt 12. It is unable to pull itself around when in cc on the interstate. I am going to retire because I dont like electronics that dont work right or are unnecessary.

 

It didn't malfunction, it was blocked. Big difference.

And I have learned to anticipate the system and deal with it.
Am I just that smart, or are other people just too dumb.
?

Learn how any system works, and you can either work with it or work around it.
Such cry babies around here.

 

Neither.

 

Absolutely.

 

Super genius

 

As far as I know, the Onguard system is the only electronic safety device in Crete / Shaffer trucks that will beep due to road conditions, or interfere with your truck actively.

You are describing the earliest software for the Onguard systems. Our current systems do not behave anything like what you describe. The system ignores anything more than 600 feet away. Between 600 and 300 feet distance, all it does is indicate the speed of the vehicle in front of you, in your lane. And it's pretty good at lane detection, even in curves.

At distances less than 300 feet, when cruise control is running, the unit will beep and take the following actions as you get closer to a vehicle moving slower than you. First, it will activate jakes lightly. Then, if the distance continues to reduce between you, it will disengage cruise. And if that isnt enough, and you are still approaching the vehicle in front of you, the system will actively engage the brakes.

There are only three situations where the Onguard system in our trucks do things that annoy me.

First, when on a downhill slope, if you start approaching a vehicle only a little slower than you while your cruise control is activating the Jake to control your speed, the Onguard system will ALSO activate the Jake. The two systems apparently fight each other for control, and the Jake starts turning itself off and on, making the truck buck slightly, and accelerate faster on the downgrade because the Jake is not always on. Annoying, but just disengage cruise control on downgrades when you are behind granny, and the conflict ends.

Second, bridge overpass shadows that are strongly defined on light colored pavement will make the system hiccup, very briefly, beep, and touch the brakes. It is rare. In 8 months, I have had the truck do this less than 5 times.

Third, vehicles that slow down before they leave the road onto an exit ramp will be tracked by the system even after they are out of your lane. This is probably the most irritating issue have with the system. In city interstate traffic when 4-wheelers are doing stupid driver tricks, it is pretty common for the Onguard to beep and brake when a vehicle close to you moves out from in front of you, then brakes hard on an off ramp.

All three of those situations are annoying, but all beeping and braking are at distances of 300 feet or less. And the slower you are moving, the closer the range is for beeping and braking.

In slow traffic, the Onguard won't beep at anything unless it's practically under your bumper.

Some companies invest in updating the software in their Onguard systems so they are useful, rather than problems. Crete / Shaffer / Hunt seems to be one of those companies.

 

I was driving a pro star with a cummings engine and eaton auto. year model 2018. It was probably not set up. the shop acted like they didnt know anything about it. It applied the brake one time when the interstate was turning to the left and the radar picked up a slower vehicle in the right lane. It slowed me from 70 to 63 with the brakes. So I guess I should wait to judge them until I drive one that is properly set up.

 

Nothing in your post makes me want to drive such a system in slick conditions.