OK. Talk to me about the driver assist features in the OT. I just retuned from a trip and rented a Palisade that had the lane centering feature as well as full ACC. I am not a die hard fan of these gimmicks and tech things, but have to admit the lane centering feature reduced significantly the fatigue of driving 5 to 6 plus hours, when compared to my 200 that just bips bips bips if I get near the side lane and requires ever-so-sligth micro corrections while highway driving. For you road warriors, how is the OT tech on this assist features when compared to the current market offerings? I have heard that the LX does not get the latest and greatest from Toyota/Lexus, like the TX or Grand Highlander do, but can't confirm that or whats the difference.
Driver assist features in the 700OT (14 Viewers)
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Doesn't miss a beat. It pretty much drives itself on the highway if you let it. Very useful either for stop start traffic, or when you want some help during a long stint.
Personally, I have set the collision sensitivity to low, and turned off the camera eye tracking from the infotainment. Makes my life easier.
In this case Toyota Safety Sense 3.0 has been out for a couple of years so LXOT have pretty much the current version. This is my daily and when i head to work (about 50 miles each way) i always turn in on and it's really good.
It won't do well if you're on the highway 65+mph and up ahead is a huge slow down, you need to manually apply the break early to avoid the system to do a hard breaking.
TJA is freaking awesome during rush hour. I wish it max speed cap on TJA is at least 30mph instead of 25mph.
I have driver monitoring turned off and it stays off even after you restart the car. One thing to note is even when you have it turned off, it will turn back on while TJA is active and it'll turn back off when TJA deactivates.
It won't do well if you're on the highway 65+mph and up ahead is a huge slow down, you need to manually apply the break early to avoid the system to do a hard breaking.
TJA is freaking awesome during rush hour. I wish it max speed cap on TJA is at least 30mph instead of 25mph.
I have driver monitoring turned off and it stays off even after you restart the car. One thing to note is even when you have it turned off, it will turn back on while TJA is active and it'll turn back off when TJA deactivates.
IMO the lane centering on the hwy kind of sucks. It stays in the lane but the steering wheels has tons of small movements left to right and makes it uncomfortable. At least mine does when im cruising 80mph.
I take a 10 hour trip once a month and it’s been lights out good. I do need to turn the driver monitoring off because it yells at me a lot.
Traffic Jam Assist. When the speed falls below 25mph, you can take your hands off the wheel. It can do full stop and move again with steering, without any driver input. It's really good during traffic jams and stop and go situation. But once the speed hits 25mph, it'll ask you to put your hands on the wheel. It will disengage if you look away for even just a few seconds.
It only work on known major highways. Not for street traffic.
I personally find the systems reliable and quite functional. Using adaptive cruise and lane keep assist (LKA) the truck nearly drove itself from Tulsa to Denver. All the safety systems can be easily disabled. Around town I only keep pre-collision and blind spot monitoring on. Lane departure assist (LDA) is always turned off for me.
As others have said the LX7 gets the latest from Toyota which is Safety Sense 3.0. Previous model year LX600 only got SS2.5.
As others have said the LX7 gets the latest from Toyota which is Safety Sense 3.0. Previous model year LX600 only got SS2.5.
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Sinister
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I used the LX600 system last week coming back from CT, and it worked perfect. A little weird letting the truck start and stop by itself but I got used to it.
