Assisted driving notes

Adaptive cruise control and blindspot assist are standard across the range, but to get Nissan’s full assisted driving suite, called Propilot, you must upgrade to at least Tekna trim. That adds active lane following, automatic speed limit adjustment and Navi-link, which will slow the car for bends.

Navi-link is best disabled, as we’ve yet to find a curve on the motorway that can’t be taken at 70mph. The automatic speed adjustment is best kept on the setting that waits for you to confirm before changing the speed, as the speed sign recognition is better than most but far from infallible.

The adaptive cruise control is generally fairly smooth and anticipates reasonably well but is also not perfect, and the car is a touch jerky when coming to a complete stop. It could also do with speeding up more quickly when changing lanes.

We didn’t have any false warnings from the collision avoidance. The lane keep assist is relatively unintrusive and easy enough to turn off, too.

AUTONOMOUS EMERGENCY BRAKING

 Does the system avoid false activation well? ✓

 Can it be deactivated? ✓

 Does it have pedestrian/cyclist detection? ✓

LANE KEEPING ASSISTANCE

 Is the system tuned to keep the driver engaged at all times? ✓

 Is it adjustable for sensitivity? ✓

 Does it allow you to drive around a pothole/obstacle within your lane easily and without deactivation? ✓

INTELLIGENT CRUISE CONTROL

 Can the system consistently recognise and automatically adopt motorway gantry-signed variable speed limits? ✗

 Does it prevent undertaking? ✓

 Does it have effective audible or visual alerts, or steering intervention, to prevent changing lanes into the path of an overtaking car? ✓