I'm just wondering how my OB will do in the outback, considering I just got stuck in my friend's paved suburban driveway. Maybe someone can explain to me how to avoid this situation in the future.
My friend's driveway is steep, probably 15 degrees or so, and rises abruptly from the road. As I turned into it, I decided to back up to get straighter. The OB refused to let me back up. The engine revved, but the car did not move and the reverse display showed a color-filled (yellow?) box in the rear on the road I was trying to reach. When I switched back to drive, same result, but with some indication iirc on the dash of an obstacle ahead. The only way I was able to move at all was to put the car in neutral and let it roll backwards. The car was not bottoming out, which was my first thought -- it was the obstacle avoidance system being a fascist dictator.
This seems to bode really poorly for what could happen in an dirt road situation.
My friend's driveway is steep, probably 15 degrees or so, and rises abruptly from the road. As I turned into it, I decided to back up to get straighter. The OB refused to let me back up. The engine revved, but the car did not move and the reverse display showed a color-filled (yellow?) box in the rear on the road I was trying to reach. When I switched back to drive, same result, but with some indication iirc on the dash of an obstacle ahead. The only way I was able to move at all was to put the car in neutral and let it roll backwards. The car was not bottoming out, which was my first thought -- it was the obstacle avoidance system being a fascist dictator.
This seems to bode really poorly for what could happen in an dirt road situation.