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| NHTSA Complaint Number: 006089743 | Incident Date: Sep, 04 2006 |
| Consumer's City: LUTZ | Consumer's State: FL |
| Vehicle Transmission Type: AUTO | Manufacturers Name: General Motors, LLC |
| Model Name: DTS | Model Year: 2006 |
| Vehicle Involved in a Crash: No | Component's Description: Vehicle speed control:cruise control |
| Vehicle Involved in a Fire: No | Persons Injured: 0 |
| Vehicle's VIN#: 1G6KD57966U | Date added to File: May, 23 2021 |
| Date Complaint Received: Dec, 26 2006 | Complaint Type: IVOQ |
| Incident Reported To Police: Yes | Purchase Date: Jul, 02 2006 |
| Was Original Owner: Yes | Anti-lock Brakes: Yes |
| Number of Cylinders: 8 | Date of Manufacturer: - |
| Was Vehicle Towed: - | Description of the Complaints: My 2006 cadillac dts has adaptive cruise control. i have experienced 3 episodes of police radar interference with this feature. the symptom is that the cc indicates that a car is immediately in front of the vehicle. it sounds the alarm and applies the brakes as strongly as the feature allows. the workaround is to immediately hit the gas or kill the cc to get back up to spped and avoid a rear end collision. i had my dealer test the unit and validate the alignment. the unit tested error free. i have experienced the problem with a florida state police car 1 time and hillsbourogh county police cars 2 times. i contacted the county and they took a firm position that it couldn't be their radar units. i frankly don't care where the problem is. if other people are experiencing this it will escalate to a fatality inducing situation. i may alo take the pfoblem to the fcc as this is obviously a bandwidth problem on the part of the police radar units or the cadillac adaptive cc module. firsy failure occurred when i was following a police cruiser who was approx 200 feet ahead of me and in the adjacent lane (the one to my right) there was no oncoming traffic and no one within 500 feet to the rear. without warning my car went into emergenct stop and spunded the proximity warning. i tapped the on/off switch and brought the car up to speed. it has also failed as i pass a police car that is sitting perpendicular to the road. the duration is short as you are rapidly passing thru the radar cone. however, i had this happen on the howard franklin bridge over tampa bay and that is a terrible place of a car to suddenly slow down with no apparant warning. i would venture to guess that few people actually use this feature. it is a fantastic function but it is somewhat complex to use and learn how to anticipate. please feel free to contact me for additional information. again, no idea as to which element is a fault. |
