My experience using ADAS on my Hyundai Creta all the time

I've tried various ADAS features on my car and found Auto-Hold, Adaptive Cruise Control, Front and 360-deg Camera, and Blind-Spot Monitoring to be the most useful.

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My experience with the Creta's ADAS and other driving assist features, kept ON, all the time.

Note: Mine is a 2024 facelift Creta SX(O) IVT - all the bells and whistles.

I have used these features in Bangalore's crazy traffic, and on the highways of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.

Most useful

Auto-hold

• In Bangalore's notorious traffic snarls, you keep your foot on the brake, rather than on the accelerator, and this is my favorite driver-assist feature.
• In this, you keep the brake pressed for a second, and when the auto-hold light comes up on the instrument cluster, you can take your foot off. No roll back / no moving forward - the vehicle stays put. This saves you from having to juggle the brake and accelerator all the time.
• If it's slow-moving traffic, switch off the auto-hold and the vehicle creeps forward slowly without any accelerator input.

Front camera and 360-deg camera

• This turns on automatically when you are too close to the front vehicle, and you can judge the distance, or use the 360 view to negotiate tight turns on unscientific corners, with errant bikers plying their trade all around you. Very very useful, and helped me save myself from many a scratch / dent.
• The good news is that there is a dedicated button. I have used it many times when dogs and children have tried crossing the road, and fallen in the blind spot caused due to the high bonnet.

Adaptive cruise control

• Goes without saying. Most of you have used it already. It slows down from the set cruise control speed if it detects a vehicle some distance ahead of you. The slowdown is gradual but noticeable. I change lanes when this happens due to a slowing truck, and the cruise control picks up to the set speed straight away. What a godsend this is on long highway journeys - no pressing of the accelerator, brake (or clutch) required - you just change lanes and continue - the vehicle handles everything else for you.

Blind-spot monitoring

• Alerts me to the omnipresent left-overtaking car on the highway, or speeding biker on Bangalore's roads, both visually via a red light on the mirror and via a chime.

• Minor irritant - When I overtake a vehicle and move into its lane, this chime alerts me if I have pressed that lane's indicator (usually, moving to the left lane), and the vehicle is too close behind.

Mixed Bag

Lane keep assist

• This one is a mixed bag. Sure, on long highway trips, it keeps the steering adjusted perfectly to the lane and takes away the stress of the driver needing to do it every so often.
• The Creta's lane keep assist also reads the road markings brilliantly in most weather conditions and at night, so it's been very accurate. In rare situations, I had to peel my eyes to see faint lane markings, that the system had already picked up much before I did. Great camera!
• Over a long 8 - 9 hour drive, it takes that much load off, your shoulders and arms.
• However, its intrusive nature also means that it keeps chiming in and self-corrects the steering, every single time you want to do an overtake. You need to signal lane-change indicators and then it lets you take complete control. This is often anxiety-inducing during high-speed overtaking, as other vehicles seldom follow lane discipline in India, while the system follows its textbook-style.
• Moreover, the chime takes over the audio, leading to irritating beeps when your favorite music is playing. So that's another downside.

Forward collision avoidance assist

• This has warned me whenever I have approached the vehicle in-front very aggressively. Or if the vehicle in front has slowed down considerably. If very close, it has applied the brakes ever so slightly.
• The good part is that you can specify the distance at which the warning occurs.
• The part that I was worried about the most, is if it kicks in too aggressively, say when a non-BHPian overtakes you without keeping a safe distance. I am happy to report that I have faced many situations like these, and the system hasn't kicked in a panic-inducing manner for such situations.
• One situation in which I would have liked the FCAA to actually kick-in, is unmarked speed breakers. There is a proxy though. If you follow the vehicle in front closely, the unmarked speed breaker is likely to have induced panic braking in them, causing the Creta's FCAA to also start alarming immediately. I recall facing this situation once, on the Bangalore-Mangalore highway.

Least Useful

Rear collision avoidance

• Too aggressive. If you're trying to take a U-turn on a busy road, God save you from the bikers trying to pass your car's posterior. The system keeps braking aggressively and it feels like a jolt to the passengers.
• I still need to find out if the sensitivity can be fine-tuned.

Front vehicle departure alert

• This shows up when you're stopped, and maybe focusing on the phone, and the vehicle in front departs, alerting you to start moving.
• In my experience, the least useful feature, because we already have this in the form of other vehicle owners behind you blaring their horns off to alert you to start moving.

Hope this helps.

Let me know if there are other features that you want an opinion on, that I may have missed.

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