Thank you Steve very much your videos are so helpful and easy to understand. I have a new 2024 Corolla LE and Toyota Lane Assist will pull me when I'm going around curves that makes me very nervous i hate it. Can you explain how to disable Lane Assist feature?
I'm happy to have discovered your channel! My new 2023 Corolla Hybrid(!) seems to be possessed by evil spirits. Any accurate information I can get to exorcise them is sorely needed. Every photo or video I've seen of the 2023 Toyota models has a different configuration of the cruise control and other smart-car controls. It's the same situation with the one you're driving here. Frankly I'm ready to do whatever it takes to disable most of the smarts in my new smart-car because it's been doing very spooky things: several times now it's decided, on its own, to brake the vehicle to a complete stop and I've seen no way to prevent it from coming to a complete stop before I can proceed on my way. For the moment, I'm in a rural area where this behavior is simply very annoying. But I'll soon be driving to Dallas-Ft. Worth and hurtling along I-35E at 70 mph in moderate traffic. If this happens there, it could quickly go from merely annoying to very dangerous if not fatal. Why do they have so many different versions of these controls??
I understand your concern. I recently rented a Honda Civic for a weekend and the cruise control features were not reliable during a rainy weekend. I had to make sure to turn them off after a risky, late-night, highway trip where the system kept telling me that Adaptive Cruise Control was malfunctioning. Definitely need to read the manuals with these new cars.
I have a 23 Prius and if cruise control is engaged the car will start moving without doing anything once the car ahead of you gets to the distance setting. Three methods of engaging, gas, resume and car starts moving ahead of you. I would think the car you used would be the same.
It depends how long you're stopped. If it is less than 3 seconds, then you are right, the car in front just needs to move. If you're stopped for more than that, you have to hit resume or touch the gas. And I had forgotten that the 2023 Prius now has Safety Sense 3.0 and you're right that it is the same system I demonstrate.
Hello! I tested a Corolla yesterday and I’m completely new to the system, coming from non-drive-assist cars (and manually). I had a question and I didn’t find an answer (especially while test-driving it). On my current Clio 4, whenever I engaged the speed limiter or cruise control, if I turn it off, I can press the « + » button to both resume it and set it at my current speed. It is incredible useful and prevents me to keep pressing the « - - - - - » or « + + + + + » to set the cruise control limit speed to the one I want to match. On the Toyota, I haven’t found that feature, so for instance while I was driving at 110 km/h with cruise control, I had to turn it off because of braking and speed limitation at 50 km/h, but then I had to resume it (which put it back to 110 km/h!!!) and manually drop the limit. I found that super dangerous.
I went to the Dealership and had some of the safety features turned off. They were annoying and in some scenarios dangerous. I have a 2024 Corolla when I would take my foot off the gas peddle because I'm rolling up to a red light my car would descelerate from 35 to 0 in seconds to a complete stop to keep me from getting too close to the vehicle in front of me. So very dangerous because someone could rear end you if they're traveling too close. I had the Lane Assist turned off as well. You may have to maneuver depending on what's in front of you but Lane Assist will keep you in your Lane. I'm now more at ease every since I had those features turned off. Good luck everyone.
Hi Steve I'm sorry...I met other drivers that were having the same concerns not just with Toyota cars but other Makes of cars as well and I wanted to share my experiences. I just found out there's a recall on some Chevy cars that has a feature that will automatically keep a car from idling to save on gas. Turns out that feature has damaged some Chevrolet's engines. Have you heard about this?
My 2025 Corolla xse CC is way too intrusive. Go over a big bump, it slows down after the bump. Approach a turn on the freeway, it slows down to what it feels is a safe speed. Meanwhile the cars behind aren’t expecting this and damned near rear end me. How do you disengage these ridiculous nanny devices?
You don’t. It is always ready to be set. Either conventional or radar, there is not an intermediate step before setting a speed. It is unlike any previous Toyota cruise control but many other makes do this
@@TrainerSteveClifford The problem is it's always ON and almost caused a crash because it will jerk the steering wheel out of my hand or hit the brakes when there is no need to. I need to be able to disable that system.
@@sjddavis1 that’s not cruise control. That’s either the lane departure or somebody turned on the proactive driving assist. Both can be disabled in the settings menu
Im confused what is the difference between all these buzzwords? radio cruise control? cruise control can someone explain what they do in laymans term? whats the diff between these two? so does the SS 3.0 automatically limit your car speed to the posted speed? or can you still force the car to go over idk to 50 in a 45mph? does the car auto slow down on clear road to match posted speed? and when you say the "cars going on its own" so are we still pressing accelerate? or is the car accelerating on it's own for "stop and go traffic"?? I'm interested in buying a 2024 toyota corolla hybrid se coming from a 2018 rav 4 xle. Still debating on whats a good price.
It’s Radar (assisted) Cruise Control. The vehicle will use the onboard radar to detect a vehicle in front and govern or adapt your speed to be at or below the speed you have set. If you have set your speed to 65 mph on the highway and the car ahead of you slows down to 60 mph, your vehicle’s speed will also reduce to 60 mph and maintain the set distance between the 2 vehicles. If the car ahead then speeds up to let’s say 70 mph, your vehicle will speed back up to 65 mph. However, TSS 3.0 will not automatically change your speed based on the posted legal speed limit. It will display the posted speed limit on the display, to provide more information to you as the driver. So, if you decide to drive at 59 mph in a street where the limit is 45 mph, it will not slow you down automatically but you will be able to see that the posted limit is 45. Same information that Google Maps or Waze has given for years now
Hi Steve, I have a question. Is it possible to turn on "hard" lane assist without turning on cruise control on Highlander 2023? Without cruise control on I can only use "soft" lane assist it's not holding the road like on the second "hard" mode.
You're describing the difference between "Lane Departure Alert with Steering Assist" and "Lane Trace Assist." LTA is the one that actively centers you in the lane and it only works when you have a speed set in Cruise Control. The steering assist is just a nudge on the wheel if you drift out of the lane. There is a new feature that is on a few models which is called "traffic jam assist" which is full speed and steering at speeds below 25 mph but there are currently only a few model with this. In answer to your question, no, there is no way to get LTA to work without a speed set in cruise control.
What is the difference between traffic jam assist and the way that you’re doing it. I have a 24 limited Crown. Also may I ask you about do you have any wind noise front the driver and the passenger front windows. My car is a day old and just went on the highway no wind outside but yet driving over 40 I’m getting a nerve-wrecking wind noise through the both front windows sometimes as much as like the windows slightly cracked open but actually it really isn’t.
Traffic jam assist doesn’t require your hands on the wheel and cuts out at 25 mph. As for the wind noise, I can’t diagnose that here. Might need to bring it to the service department
Thanks Steve great video, I have a 2022 Tundra and I find that it wanders a lot when I have the DRCC on to the point that it becomes uncomfortable to leave turned on. I realize it is a year older then the vehicle you are driving but am I missing something when using it?
The 2022 Tundra has Safety Sense 2.5 which isn't as sophisticated as this one. I believe you're talking about the "lane tracing" feature that keeps you centered in the lane. I personally hate this on the 2.0 and 2.5 versions of this. The software and camera just can't quite seem to find the lane and when it does, it often chooses the center of a lane when an edge would be safer (e.g. diving next to a semi truck). The new 3.0 seems MUCH improved in this respect. You can turn off the lane centering feature by hitting the button in the right side of the steering wheel that looks like a car drifting out of the lane. I keep mine off on my personal vehicle.
You need a helper to handle the camera(s). I get nervous watching. You might consider getting a “GoPro camera with a suction cup mount to augment your phone. It appears this YT channel is kinda like a hobby for you, not that there’s anything wrong with that. I can point you to a couple of folks that started out sharing their knowledge via YT and have many, many views because of their success. Keep it up. I’m learning about features on our 2023 Highlander that were undocumented or unclear. I’ve asked my sales person to order the “Multi-media”manual which should help.
Is it doing it when you're trying to change modes between Adaptive Cruise Control (where it automatically slows down if you're approaching traffic going slower than you) and regular control (where YOU have to brake on your own)? When I tried to do that, it gave me the same message. I don't know why it should be that way, but apparently it is.
Well… considering this new one is only a minor change in operation, maybe. Toyota started making dynamic cruise control standard on many cars in 2016 and all of them by 2018 so this isn’t exactly new. Just a new feature on them
@@Swirek74 has that since 2012 on the Prius. Since 2018 on some trims of the Camry. That feature requires an electronic parking brake which has been phasing in for years. Most models switched to this in the last 3 out 4 years
Toyota has had full speed range cruise control for years, even in their first Safety Sense Suite. It’s just a few of their older models that did not have the full speed range function in the past.
I hate this cruise control system. Cruise control was originally made for highway driving. That is how I still use my cruise control - at least that's how I WANT to use it. The car wants to be the driver? That's fine for a 16 year old who has no driving experience, but I will never trust my life and the life of my passengers to a computer-driven car. I've had my Crown only 9 months and I'm ready to sell it.
It is easy to switch to the traditional cruise control system. There is a button on the right side of the steering wheel that has an icon of cruise control (looks like a speedometer) with the word "MODE" below it. Hit that and it will switch to the old style cruise.
To be completely honest, I have a Toyota Bz4x and I use this constantly. I am disabled with rheumatoid arthritis and other issues in my feet. My feet always feel like they are on fire all the time. I use this to drive on regular roads. I keep my feet near the pedals but, most of the time it just follows the car in front of me. You definitely need to use caution when changing lanes or making a turn. For me it works and helps me out so much. Some may not feel the same way. …
I have "heard" that the stop and go part of the Safety Sense 3.0 will require a yearly subscription after the new car stuff expires. Do you know if this is true?
Not sure what is meant by “stop and go” feature but nothing safety related will be subscription based. Currently, the map, the digital key and remote start are the only functional things that are connected to a subscription.
Sorry, "stop and go" traffic. I think that Toyota may call it "Traffic Jam Assist". Honda calls it "Low-Speed Follow". It is typically used in say in rush hour traffic or any back up of traffic that causes a "stop and go" situation. @@TrainerSteveClifford
We love that on our 2023 Corolla SE. Thanks for all your videos. Enjoying them in Arkansas.
Thank you for this video. I always get anxious about proper operation when I am about to give a machine any amount of control 😅
My parents are buying new Alphard
And it will come with Toyota Safety Sense 3.0 , I’m excited to see how it works
Thank you Steve very much your videos are so helpful and easy to understand. I have a new 2024 Corolla LE and Toyota Lane Assist will pull me when I'm going around curves that makes me very nervous i hate it. Can you explain how to disable Lane Assist feature?
I'm happy to have discovered your channel! My new 2023 Corolla Hybrid(!) seems to be possessed by evil spirits. Any accurate information I can get to exorcise them is sorely needed. Every photo or video I've seen of the 2023 Toyota models has a different configuration of the cruise control and other smart-car controls. It's the same situation with the one you're driving here. Frankly I'm ready to do whatever it takes to disable most of the smarts in my new smart-car because it's been doing very spooky things: several times now it's decided, on its own, to brake the vehicle to a complete stop and I've seen no way to prevent it from coming to a complete stop before I can proceed on my way. For the moment, I'm in a rural area where this behavior is simply very annoying. But I'll soon be driving to Dallas-Ft. Worth and hurtling along I-35E at 70 mph in moderate traffic. If this happens there, it could quickly go from merely annoying to very dangerous if not fatal. Why do they have so many different versions of these controls??
I understand your concern. I recently rented a Honda Civic for a weekend and the cruise control features were not reliable during a rainy weekend. I had to make sure to turn them off after a risky, late-night, highway trip where the system kept telling me that Adaptive Cruise Control was malfunctioning. Definitely need to read the manuals with these new cars.
I have a 23 Prius and if cruise control is engaged the car will start moving without doing anything once the car ahead of you gets to the distance setting. Three methods of engaging, gas, resume and car starts moving ahead of you. I would think the car you used would be the same.
It depends how long you're stopped. If it is less than 3 seconds, then you are right, the car in front just needs to move. If you're stopped for more than that, you have to hit resume or touch the gas. And I had forgotten that the 2023 Prius now has Safety Sense 3.0 and you're right that it is the same system I demonstrate.
If it has traffic jam it might be fully auto
The radar portion of the cruise control needs to be always on for every vehicle to force people to keep their distance from vehicles ahead.
Hello! I tested a Corolla yesterday and I’m completely new to the system, coming from non-drive-assist cars (and manually). I had a question and I didn’t find an answer (especially while test-driving it). On my current Clio 4, whenever I engaged the speed limiter or cruise control, if I turn it off, I can press the « + » button to both resume it and set it at my current speed. It is incredible useful and prevents me to keep pressing the « - - - - - » or « + + + + + » to set the cruise control limit speed to the one I want to match. On the Toyota, I haven’t found that feature, so for instance while I was driving at 110 km/h with cruise control, I had to turn it off because of braking and speed limitation at 50 km/h, but then I had to resume it (which put it back to 110 km/h!!!) and manually drop the limit. I found that super dangerous.
The minus button sets whatever speed you are currently going. If you want the cruise activated but don’t want to resume the previous speed, hit “-“
@@TrainerSteveClifford okay, I didn’t know that! Thanks a lot!
I went to the Dealership and had some of the safety features turned off. They were annoying and in some scenarios dangerous. I have a 2024 Corolla when I would take my foot off the gas peddle because I'm rolling up to a red light my car would descelerate from 35 to 0 in seconds to a complete stop to keep me from getting too close to the vehicle in front of me. So very dangerous because someone could rear end you if they're traveling too close. I had the Lane Assist turned off as well. You may have to maneuver depending on what's in front of you but Lane Assist will keep you in your Lane. I'm now more at ease every since I had those features turned off. Good luck everyone.
It didn’t do any of the things you are describing but I’m glad you feel better about it now
Hi Steve I'm sorry...I met other drivers that were having the same concerns not just with Toyota cars but other Makes of cars as well and I wanted to share my experiences. I just found out there's a recall on some Chevy cars that has a feature that will automatically keep a car from idling to save on gas. Turns out that feature has damaged some Chevrolet's engines. Have you heard about this?
Its pretty normal once you get used to it. Some people just can’t adapt lol
Hello!
At time 3.43 how the image appeared on the display. Can you see the car in front? I have a 2023 Toyota Corolla.
How does this compare to the lane keep assist systems in the new Kia and Hyundai’s?
Having driven both a Toyota and Kia, Kia's "driver assist" feels much more confident than Toyota's
My 2025 Corolla xse CC is way too intrusive. Go over a big bump, it slows down after the bump. Approach a turn on the freeway, it slows down to what it feels is a safe speed. Meanwhile the cars behind aren’t expecting this and damned near rear end me.
How do you disengage these ridiculous nanny devices?
@@gregdenton5282 there is a setting called “curve speed reduction” that you can turn off
@@TrainerSteveClifford found it. Thank you
My question is: How do you turn it all off?
You don’t. It is always ready to be set. Either conventional or radar, there is not an intermediate step before setting a speed. It is unlike any previous Toyota cruise control but many other makes do this
@@TrainerSteveClifford The problem is it's always ON and almost caused a crash because it will jerk the steering wheel out of my hand or hit the brakes when there is no need to. I need to be able to disable that system.
@@sjddavis1 that’s not cruise control. That’s either the lane departure or somebody turned on the proactive driving assist. Both can be disabled in the settings menu
@@TrainerSteveClifford how do you get the conventional cruise control turned on?
Im confused what is the difference between all these buzzwords? radio cruise control? cruise control can someone explain what they do in laymans term? whats the diff between these two? so does the SS 3.0 automatically limit your car speed to the posted speed? or can you still force the car to go over idk to 50 in a 45mph? does the car auto slow down on clear road to match posted speed? and when you say the "cars going on its own" so are we still pressing accelerate? or is the car accelerating on it's own for "stop and go traffic"?? I'm interested in buying a 2024 toyota corolla hybrid se coming from a 2018 rav 4 xle. Still debating on whats a good price.
It’s Radar (assisted) Cruise Control. The vehicle will use the onboard radar to detect a vehicle in front and govern or adapt your speed to be at or below the speed you have set. If you have set your speed to 65 mph on the highway and the car ahead of you slows down to 60 mph, your vehicle’s speed will also reduce to 60 mph and maintain the set distance between the 2 vehicles. If the car ahead then speeds up to let’s say 70 mph, your vehicle will speed back up to 65 mph. However, TSS 3.0 will not automatically change your speed based on the posted legal speed limit. It will display the posted speed limit on the display, to provide more information to you as the driver. So, if you decide to drive at 59 mph in a street where the limit is 45 mph, it will not slow you down automatically but you will be able to see that the posted limit is 45. Same information that Google Maps or Waze has given for years now
Hi Steve, I have a question. Is it possible to turn on "hard" lane assist without turning on cruise control on Highlander 2023? Without cruise control on I can only use "soft" lane assist it's not holding the road like on the second "hard" mode.
You're describing the difference between "Lane Departure Alert with Steering Assist" and "Lane Trace Assist." LTA is the one that actively centers you in the lane and it only works when you have a speed set in Cruise Control. The steering assist is just a nudge on the wheel if you drift out of the lane. There is a new feature that is on a few models which is called "traffic jam assist" which is full speed and steering at speeds below 25 mph but there are currently only a few model with this. In answer to your question, no, there is no way to get LTA to work without a speed set in cruise control.
What is the difference between traffic jam assist and the way that you’re doing it. I have a 24 limited Crown. Also may I ask you about do you have any wind noise front the driver and the passenger front windows. My car is a day old and just went on the highway no wind outside but yet driving over 40 I’m getting a nerve-wrecking wind noise through the both front windows sometimes as much as like the windows slightly cracked open but actually it really isn’t.
Traffic jam assist doesn’t require your hands on the wheel and cuts out at 25 mph. As for the wind noise, I can’t diagnose that here. Might need to bring it to the service department
@@TrainerSteveClifforddo you really think it's worth the subscription fee for traffic assist?
Seems like 3.0 would be good enough
@@begley09 no subscription required for that.
Well here in Canada anyway traffic jam alerts or whatever this feature is absolutely does need a subscription
@@TrainerSteveClifford it's enabled through Toyotas driver connect which is a monthly subscription and the price for that is $20 a month
Thanks Steve great video, I have a 2022 Tundra and I find that it wanders a lot when I have the DRCC on to the point that it becomes uncomfortable to leave turned on. I realize it is a year older then the vehicle you are driving but am I missing something when using it?
The 2022 Tundra has Safety Sense 2.5 which isn't as sophisticated as this one. I believe you're talking about the "lane tracing" feature that keeps you centered in the lane. I personally hate this on the 2.0 and 2.5 versions of this. The software and camera just can't quite seem to find the lane and when it does, it often chooses the center of a lane when an edge would be safer (e.g. diving next to a semi truck). The new 3.0 seems MUCH improved in this respect. You can turn off the lane centering feature by hitting the button in the right side of the steering wheel that looks like a car drifting out of the lane. I keep mine off on my personal vehicle.
You need a helper to handle the camera(s). I get nervous watching. You might consider getting a “GoPro camera with a suction cup mount to augment your phone. It appears this YT channel is kinda like a hobby for you, not that there’s anything wrong with that. I can point you to a couple of folks that started out sharing their knowledge via YT and have many, many views because of their success. Keep it up.
I’m learning about features on our 2023 Highlander that were undocumented or unclear. I’ve asked my sales person to order the “Multi-media”manual which should help.
do you know why the normal cruise control wont work? it says "currently unavailable"
Is it doing it when you're trying to change modes between Adaptive Cruise Control (where it automatically slows down if you're approaching traffic going slower than you) and regular control (where YOU have to brake on your own)? When I tried to do that, it gave me the same message. I don't know why it should be that way, but apparently it is.
Does the new hybrid Sienna have the same system?
No. The Sienna has an older version of Safety Sense
@@TrainerSteveClifford Will the Sienna do full stop and go?
@@davidbruton4768 yes it will
Great. Seams like Toyota is finally catching to other car manufacturers.
Well… considering this new one is only a minor change in operation, maybe. Toyota started making dynamic cruise control standard on many cars in 2016 and all of them by 2018 so this isn’t exactly new. Just a new feature on them
@TrainerSteveClifford by catching up, I mean cruse control, which does not disengage below 35MPH. Which stops the car and resumes the drive.
@@Swirek74 has that since 2012 on the Prius. Since 2018 on some trims of the Camry. That feature requires an electronic parking brake which has been phasing in for years. Most models switched to this in the last 3 out 4 years
Toyota has had full speed range cruise control for years, even in their first Safety Sense Suite. It’s just a few of their older models that did not have the full speed range function in the past.
does have driver monitoring system?
Some do. Very few but some do
I hate this cruise control system. Cruise control was originally made for highway driving. That is how I still use my cruise control - at least that's how I WANT to use it. The car wants to be the driver? That's fine for a 16 year old who has no driving experience, but I will never trust my life and the life of my passengers to a computer-driven car. I've had my Crown only 9 months and I'm ready to sell it.
It is easy to switch to the traditional cruise control system. There is a button on the right side of the steering wheel that has an icon of cruise control (looks like a speedometer) with the word "MODE" below it. Hit that and it will switch to the old style cruise.
You aren't ready for complete autopilot and robotaxis....they are safer than human driver
To be completely honest, I have a Toyota Bz4x and I use this constantly. I am disabled with rheumatoid arthritis and other issues in my feet. My feet always feel like they are on fire all the time. I use this to drive on regular roads. I keep my feet near the pedals but, most of the time it just follows the car in front of me. You definitely need to use caution when changing lanes or making a turn. For me it works and helps me out so much. Some may not feel the same way. …
I have "heard" that the stop and go part of the Safety Sense 3.0 will require a yearly subscription after the new car stuff expires. Do you know if this is true?
Not sure what is meant by “stop and go” feature but nothing safety related will be subscription based. Currently, the map, the digital key and remote start are the only functional things that are connected to a subscription.
Sorry, "stop and go" traffic. I think that Toyota may call it "Traffic Jam Assist". Honda calls it "Low-Speed Follow". It is typically used in say in rush hour traffic or any back up of traffic that causes a "stop and go" situation. @@TrainerSteveClifford
@@tonyl4010 Ah... that will never be a subscription service. It is included with the car and you own the feature.
@@TrainerSteveCliffordToyota has called this driver connect I believe indeed is a monthly subscription
@@begley09 drive Connect is the navigation system, not a safety system