Really dumb question about TsS

Yes. And you will hear a sound similar to when (at a stop) you mash the breaks down real hard for a (break) lock.

 

Yes, it stops. It happens in my garage, where I have to park the car in a tight space going 0-1 mph. You can change the sensitivity of the automatic braking also in the 4.2 in TFT display.

 

Yep wondered about that myself as I thought someone said 7MPH and above for something.
I volunteer you to check it with video cameras.

 

So at any speed, such as a roll at 2 MPH it will apply the brakes before rear ending the car in front of you. Correct?

 

Yes

And the creepee crawl, with stops that you have to tap the accelerator to resume.
No where close to rear end.
Done that this morning, soo bad it got 72 mpg for my morning commute.
Cruze set at 75 mph the whole time.

 

So if you have Toyota Safety Sense (TsS) and the car will apply breaks... why do you need Intelligent Clearance Sonar (ICS) ?

Is it because TsS will stop you from hitting objects (or cars) in front of you... and ICS alerts and stops you from objects that are more off center? Like lampposts or walls? Is that the difference?

 

The ICS only warns you about how close you are getting to an object (with different warning beeps). It's better to know how close you are getting to something before the car brakes for you. I you made a turn too tight, and you were about to scrape the left or right side of the car, that's where the ICS helps.

 

I think I might have it figured out after reading posts a 6th time. Maybe!
So the cruise control switch left in the on position while backing and pulling forward will not affect this function?

 

So who is going to do a OPS check

 

I think I might have it figured out for me. Maybe!
So the cruise control switch left in the on position while backing and pulling forward will not affect this function? I normally turn it off but was curious.
Manual says it may not detect flesh.

 

Need a set of targets in an open parking lot and do a test. Cardboard may not be dense enough.

 

Maybe I have missed something but cars with ICS did not look to have sensors on the side of the car. I thought they were all on the front and rear bumpers. However, it did look like the sensors closer to the edge of the bumpers were more at an angle.

Am I correct?

 

4 sensors on the sides and I think it is for passing traffic only. Not sure how these work.

 

There are four side sensors total, one on each corner, low by the wheel well on the side of the nearest bumper. There are no sensors along the doors or anywhere else on the side of the car between the wheels.

The system is constantly recording the data, like a TiVo or the radio buffer in the premium sound system. The recording buffer is not very long -- approximately 20 seconds if I remember my manual correctly. It uses those past seconds of what the sensors have "seen", plus the vehicle speed, direction, and steering angle to essentially map in 2-D space where the obstacles are now based on where both they and the car were the last time the obstacle was detected by a sensor.

It's rather ingenious, though between the 20-second time limit and how good the spatial logic may or may not be, I'm not planning to test it. I fooled it once and it freaked out about a tree that I had driven near while turning but alarmed when it was later 6 feet away.