A8 adaptive learning
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Burning Brakes
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A8 adaptive learning
I know that the A8 (like most modern autos) has adaptive learning. One thing that has always bothered me about adaptive autos is that I don't always drive the vehicle the same way. As a (almost) daily driver there are many times I am just cruising along, however there are times I like to drive more spiritedly. I've found in other cars that it takes a little time for the car to decide that indeed I want to drive like a mad man right now vs, I'm just enjoying my coffee on the way to work.
Is anyone familiar with the adaptive technology/algorithm in the C7 A8? Does it change/remember differently between the drive modes? Would I be better served making sure I'm in Tour when just, well, touring and only put it into Sport when I want to be a little aggressive? Also, any chance that the adaptive learnings have anything to do with some of the problems that people have been having. Thoughts?
Is anyone familiar with the adaptive technology/algorithm in the C7 A8? Does it change/remember differently between the drive modes? Would I be better served making sure I'm in Tour when just, well, touring and only put it into Sport when I want to be a little aggressive? Also, any chance that the adaptive learnings have anything to do with some of the problems that people have been having. Thoughts?
Burning Brakes
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From: New Jersey
I know that the A8 (like most modern autos) has adaptive learning. One thing that has always bothered me about adaptive autos is that I don't always drive the vehicle the same way. As a (almost) daily driver there are many times I am just cruising along, however there are times I like to drive more spiritedly. I've found in other cars that it takes a little time for the car to decide that indeed I want to drive like a mad man right now vs, I'm just enjoying my coffee on the way to work.
Is anyone familiar with the adaptive technology/algorithm in the C7 A8? Does it change/remember differently between the drive modes? Would I be better served making sure I'm in Tour when just, well, touring and only put it into Sport when I want to be a little aggressive? Also, any chance that the adaptive learnings have anything to do with some of the problems that people have been having. Thoughts?
Is anyone familiar with the adaptive technology/algorithm in the C7 A8? Does it change/remember differently between the drive modes? Would I be better served making sure I'm in Tour when just, well, touring and only put it into Sport when I want to be a little aggressive? Also, any chance that the adaptive learnings have anything to do with some of the problems that people have been having. Thoughts?
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For performance driving, you can put it into performance mode by quickly flooring and releasing the throttle (you won't go anywhere but the RPMs will jump up accordingly as it downshifts into the mode). You also can get there by breaking (I think) 0.7G around a corner.
I'm pretty sure the issues people are having are due to the AFM messing up the torque converter, not the adaptive learning.
I'm pretty sure the issues people are having are due to the AFM messing up the torque converter, not the adaptive learning.
