I guess the good news is you can get a new cat for free
Phantom Braking in Reverse
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Ain't nothin' free... when the wife found out I'd surely PAY!!! (...unless the new cat looked just like the old one, hmmm)
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The most annoying thing about the slamming is Halo never catches it ! If I slam the brakes it does.
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You'll never know if you end up with one cat less in the neighborhood
It would be helpful to go back and look at the video to try and figure out what it's seeing to cause the phantom braking.
When reversing in my wife's LEAF, the collision protection starts--as the Lucid does--with beeps to warn that there are objects nearby. If you continue to back up and the system believes hitting an object is imminent, the beeps turn to a steady tone. If you ignore the steady tone for more than a moment or two, the brakes are applied hard.
It is consistent and very predictable. The first time it occurred, though, it was quite startling.
Yesterday, I took my third test drive in the Air Touring. At the end of the drive, I began backing slowly into the designated parking spot. On either side were Lucid parking cones, and to my rear was a hedge (the boundary of the parking spot). The warning beeps started, but I had the necessary clearance and proceeded slowly into the parking spot. About 4 feet from the hedge (halfway into the parking spot) and without audible warning (no beeps that I recall), the Air hit the brakes hard. Dead stop. It was--like the first time with the LEAF--quite startling. I reapplied my foot to the accelerator and proceeded slowly. At the point where I wanted to stop, I removed my foot from the accelerator and... kept rolling! I had to put my foot on the brakes to prevent hitting the hedge. I was a bit unsettled by this behavior of the warning and braking system. I just did a test drive, so I know that Hold was set without me confirming it in Settings.
When these things happen, my first inclination is to believe that I simply don't understand the normal system operation; that's probably the case here, so I'll dive back into the Owners Manual.
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Did you check the creep/hold setting? It sounds like you were in creep, although the setting should not change without your input.
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For those still experiencing phantom breaking while reversing, have you tried slowing down, as others have posted? I used to get phantom braking on my slopped driveway and sometimes at charging stalls, but I guess I’ve subconsciously trained myself to drive slower when reversing. Probably a good thing.
During my test drive, the vehicle behaved as if HOLD was set, but admittedly I did not check it.
The Studio Associate opined that, because I "overrode" the safety system by pressing the accelerator after the automatic braking, the HOLD setting would have reverted to ROLL.
Until I get back into the Air, I don't have a way to confirm that opinion.
In my case, I was backing very slowly because it wasn't my vehicle and, having spent less than 2h in it over three test drives, I wasn't comfortable with anything but a slow creep.