ACC car park scare

N31LcD | 2025-08-28 08:20 | 24 views

Hi all, so I’m about 600 miles into the temp use of a Seal U. Had an issue yesterday that almost caught me out. My fault but should it be possible. Was in Lidl Carpark and reversed out of a space and turned the wheel to face towards direction of travel. Then popped it in drive and used one hand to spin the wheel, as I did I must have caught either the steering wheel button or another. It activated ACC at the default 20MPH and surged forwards but I only had a few metres before having to turn to follow the route out with a wall in front of me. Took a moment to think what was happening and obviously it cut out as I hit the brakes, but if someone was to panic I could see this being a YouTube video. Is there not a minimum speed before you can activate ACC?

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N31LcD 2025-08-28 16:05

Tried to replicate today. Pressed the button with steering wheel whilst on the brake then as released and started to push throttle it shot to 20mph. Assume that it would auto stop if something was in front of me but can see how it would catch someone out. Neil

Steel188 2025-08-28 20:54

Hi there, me again. No there isn't a minimum speed, and yes, if you use an avaerage European male dinner plate sized hand ( ) you can easily activate the cruise control. I've done it several times on roundabouts. The only way to guarantee avoiding this is to use the old fashioned push pull, feeding the wheel through your hands using the outside of the rim only - yeah, right, as if!!

N31LcD 2025-08-28 21:45

Surely a fix needed. I’m guessing it would stop before hitting anything static, but wow first thing in morning on a caravan hols and coming from a Lidl croissant run pre coffee. It had the wake up effect. Guilty as charged for palming the wheel when parking.

Jaymac460 2025-08-29 05:57

It’s useful to be able to activate ACC at low speeds, for example in slow moving or start/stop traffic. Then it automatically keeps the distance to the car ahead. Everything’s a trade off, and as stated, even if accidentally activated, you would expect that the car would then automatically brake if necessary. Autos & Vehicles

riskebyd 2025-09-06 07:11

Further to my other posts please use the APP chat feature and notify BYD of this incident it will then be recorded as an incident at BYD and hopefully an OTA can be issued

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