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Originally Posted by gravitylover
Grrr this Forester keeps frustrating the shit out of me. This morning it caused an accident! The dumbass collision avoidance jammed on the brakes when I was still about 150 feet from the car in front of me and brought the car down from ~35mph to less than 5 in what felt like no time and the car behind me didn't expect such a radical maneuver and barely missed rear ending me and ended up in someones front yard instead. The car it was trying to avoid was turning left (slowly) but there was no other traffic so I knew it was going to be out of my way in plenty of time so I only had my foot hovering over the brake pedal. Apparently I'm too dumb to handle suburban driving at 7:15am 
Another thing that I really can't stand is you can't downshift. I was coming down a 2+ mile descent (drops over 1k feet in the first mile and a half) and had to ride the brakes to keep the car within 10mph over the speed limit. I kept pumping them but when it got to ~70 I had to just ride them. Before I got to the bottom of the hill the pedal had nearly sunk to the floor and it felt terrible. In any other car I would have dropped it a gear and let the engine do the work but in this car you only have D or L with no option in between and there's no way even though it's not my car I was throwing it in Low at highway speed. It's not like I was cruising going into the hill either because I stopped at the top to take a picture.
Unless you turn the lane control off completely every time the car gets to the edge of its lane it beeps and gives a subtle tweak to the wheel to let you know you're not perfectly in the lane. Sometimes you do drift around the space or need to avoid bad pavement or whatever but the car punishes you for that. Bullshit...
I'm getting used to the nose heavy handling, I drive like my dad now  The upside to that is I got 33mpg on a 700 mile road trip yesterday 
Good points - It's quiet, the tunes sound pretty good, it has a huge sunroof and it doesn't scrape going in and out of parking lots or on dirt roads. It also takes care of itself pretty well in traffic, it's quick enough and is really quite easy to control (until the nannies take over) and the visibility all around is very good. Most people would probably love it... |
It’s interesting you experienced that with Subaru’s collision avoidance system, they were one of the first on the scene with those safety features. (Aside from some Mercedes, Audi, etc). I’ve heard stories of a car stopping because of something sitting in the road, like debris or a raised manhole cover. From what I know of Subaru’s safety systems, they work very well. *shrug* I wonder if that car in front of you was slowing much faster than you think and/or your speed was too high??
And from my seat time using Toyota Safety Sense 2.0 the collision detection, blind spot monitoring, and radar cruise all worked flawlessly. And I spent a lot of miles driving on one of the craziest highways in my area. (This was in my 2019 Corolla)
The Forester is a great alternative to a small SUV, and I’m sure you will learn to love it’s “quirks”. All Subaru’s have them. Lol It’s too bad we never got the Forester STI. Fast and practical!
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