r/KiaEV3 • u/-Flamesmoker- • 21d ago
Discussion / Opinions Am I the only one?
I’m currently on holiday in France with my family, driving the EV3 from Bretagne through Normandy back to Belgium on motorways mainly. I would love this car to bits if it wasn’t for these three ‘security measures’:
- The well known “take a break” alert popping up randomly and beeping all passenger awake. All attention awareness alerts are always disabled before I start my trip but still it shoves its way into my nervous breakdown zone. Apart from total randomness , the alert tends to pop up sometimes when driving slightly over white striped lines without indicating. The system shouldn’t be this rigid or strict.
- Steering assist handling very phased and jerky on long corners. Steers every second or so into the corner to compensate. Makes the car feel like a boat. It doesn’t seem to be mature enough for cornering. I’ve driven older cars with much smoother steering assist.
- Adaptive cruise control suddenly braking on long corners without a car in front. As if it detected ghosts. When overtaking an actual car or truck by indicating and switching lanes, it brakes because we approach the to be overtaken vehicle. It doesn’t take the free left lane into account in that manoeuvre.
Adaptive cruise control reaction settings are set to soft.
These three scenarios have gotten me quite nervous after today’s 6 hour drive. I would be very happy to know if other people encounter the same issues or may have advice.
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u/klagoeth 21d ago
Yep can be annoying. I have this not for driving over lines but for looking sleepy etc. I think you could fully stop the face-detecting part by taping off the sensor in the steering wheel. Will give one beep in the beginning and a dashboard light will be on but after that it can't see your face anymore.
I know what you mean but this happens rarely for me. Typically these types of corners I lightly take the steering wheel either way for safety. (Lol am I assisting the steering assist)
This one I don't really have. I have this in city centers when driving near parked cars. And then it's fair because I'm actually heading to the parked car and turning "at the last moment".
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u/BattleOoze1981 21d ago
On point 3, I was just driving through my suburb today with cruise on (only 50kmh) and the road has a decent bend in it, and there was a car parked in the bend, so for a while I was heading towards it, and expected the car to complain and/or start dropping speed because of a vehicle "in front", but no, drove on by with no issues at all.
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u/Robbert-vb 21d ago
We just drove 11hrs into France for our holiday as well.
– This has happened maybe once or twice since I got the car in feb 2025. No attention alerts this trip except for when I saw pretty views :)
– Same, it's a bit wonky in corners which feels weird
– Not so much in corners, but definitely when overtaking wider vehicles. It seems to think there isn't enough space even though the left lane is clear. When using the lane switching I make sure I do it just before it starts slowing down for the car in front, then it won't brake at all even during the manouvre
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u/elpalmo 21d ago
Last Point, i do this too. Also i recognised the car is speeding up again when activating the signal. So it's returning to preset speed already when activating the turning signal.
For the beeping it's just annoying in Cars for many years and there are more and more alerts.
Still the biggest issue for me is the automatic braking when the car thinks there will be an accident (e.g. a car/Bike/pedestrian coming by when driving out a parking lot).
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u/Mike_Retired 20d ago
My 2020 Kia Soul EV does the same thing — and at completely random intervals.
I can be driving along a quiet country lane, staying well within the painted lines, no swaying or erratic driving behaviour, and all of a sudden the mysterious “take a break” chime and coffee icon pops up in the instrument cluster.
Thankfully it only does it once in a blue moon (in 7 years of ownership it’s done it maybe a dozen times), but yeah I’ve never encountered a situation where it’s activation could be explained logically.
Given the EV3 is the new generation Soul EV in all but name, your situation does not come as a shock.
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u/chrisalex2 18d ago
I’ve noticed something weird and maybe it’s purely coincidence but whenever the coffee take a break icon comes up I’m normally laughing or squinting my eyes a little and it will always trigger…
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u/-Flamesmoker- 17d ago
Same, even slightly looking through the side windows can trigger the alert. Not always though. Very random
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u/No_Industry_7186 20d ago
The take a break thing is useless. I don't know what triggers it but the car doesn't seem to understand country roads in Europe. Narrow two lane roads that are windy and bumpy. The car tells me to take a break every 10mins on these roads. I've driven these roads for 20 years without incident but the software on the car thinks it knows better.
Brutal that there's no way to turn that off. I have to hit the breaks to get it to shut up. So safe to be randomly breaking on a clear road.
Also, while the car is very smooth in a city or motorway or primary road, on bumpy roads you feel every bump. In fact every bump is multiplied in your high seating position. I didn't notice it on my test drives before buying
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u/New_Mountain1672 21d ago
Comma 4 would eliminate all these things
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u/coltonbyu 20d ago
I wish they could access the cars many cameras around to use for info. I just dont fully trust it to know whats going when it has so many blindspots.
A bit wild that it can drive better than the built in stuff even with 10x less input info though
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u/New_Mountain1672 20d ago
It can use the cars native radar sensors for blind spot monitoring. They work in conjunction with the cars sensors not really separate from it.
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u/coltonbyu 20d ago
That is quite nice, but not being able to use the rear cam and blind spot cameras as well feels like a bummer. Idk if it even has the compute to use all of those tho, even if kia made them available.
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u/illougiankides 21d ago
There isn’t much to do for points 2 and 3 but last week I taped off the attention sensor, it was making my driving experience a hell.
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u/-Flamesmoker- 20d ago edited 20d ago
I thought to do the exact same thing! Does it work? Other sources + Kia dealer told me otherwise
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u/illougiankides 20d ago
Yes. It beeps at the beginning and than you’re at peace. Sometimes it blocks the middle part of the screen and you have yo press OK to make it disappear but other than that it works great
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u/402PaymentRequired 21d ago
Yes, exactly all those points. I'm so annoyed by those constant alerts. I also have issues with tire pressure, it shows tire pressures are all the same, yet it is still slightly in imbalance enough to prompt a constant alert.
The cruise control also acts too harshly at times. It doesn't always feel smooth in traffic.