Gas petal stuck?

[Tacyon]

So, I'm in my SVR and climbing a ridge at a relatively slow (precise driving) and the wheels slip a bit and all of a sudden the throttle takes off on its own making any kind of intelligent recover nearly impossible without hitting the hand brake or coming to ZERO.
I've looked up service bulletins on the SVR and I've asked my engineer if there are any settings or tweaks that can be made to alleviate this behaviour and nothing.

FD, is this a "working as designed" and if so, "WHAT THE HECK WAS SOMEONE THINKING?" If my Off road truck ('74 Toyota FJ40) suddenly ramped up to 90% throttle while I was traversing a rocky ridge, its next maneuver would be to the of the trail until I resolved the malfunction.

 

[MottiKhan]

This was a bug that was supposedly fixed at one time. I've experienced the problem, but never saw the fix. I just don't use the SRV anymore unless I absolutely need it for a specific task. Then I drive slow so the bug doesn't pop up again and again.

 

[Chris Simon]

I never experienced this.
I did experience the bug where the throttle is reset to 0 and you have to move your throttle to 0 or hit a handbrake to be able to use throttle again, but that seems to be fixed since 2.1 hit.

Submit the bug report. Try to capture the occurrence.

 

[Tacyon]

It's not a matter of being able to capture it. It does it any/every time the wheels start to slip. The visual throttle stays where it was placed the but motors and wheels quickly ramp up to 100%.

Now, I how many of you use the kybd to control your SRV vs a joystick combination of some sort? I use the kYBD and mouse.

 

[Jpotter]

Yes, it seems the 'throttle' on the SRV is an on/off switch when used manually. So like you said, it all or nothing and if you slip the wheels spin 100%. No modulation possible.

 

[Deleted member 38366]

Unfortunately, it's one of the (questionable) "perks" of Drive Assist ON for Driving.

It regulates speed and throttle envelope in an entirely different way than Drive Assist OFF.
So if absolute speed drops below the Throttle Setting in Assist ON - the Engine indeed goes "Full Digital" in a vein attempt to attain the set speed - naturally with all undesired consequences.
Especially on Icy Planets with low G, Drive Assist ON makes it darn-near impossible to control the SRV. Not much of an "assistance" really, rather the exact opposite.

I only ever use Drive Assist OFF for that reason. It typically yields a much much smoother Driving experience, the SRV just doesn't stop to 0 when retarding Throttle to idle.

Why Assist ON vs. OFF uses a drastically different Throttle position scheduling is absolutely beyond me.
Either way, Assist ON I deem nearly unusable for most conditions - and be it only for the higher Engine noise levels it seems to produce at the same speed when compared to Assist OFF.
I think I only ever use it in ON mode when climbing critical/borderline high-G slopes or traverse extremely difficult Terrain at snail Speed - where Assist OFF would actually make the SRV stop moving forward.
Other than that, I also go Assist ON when I place my SRV below the Ship for docking. But that's really it.

 

[Tacyon]

Sry, should mentioned that. I'm pretty sure i have DA off .. if I set the speed, it stays at that speed (except in these cases) I'm 98% sure I hear Drive Assist Off! each time my ship poops me out in the SRV.

Its as if the speed is "ground speed" and if it decreases, the system controlling it gives the cmd to speed up the motor's to get keep it at speed.

 

[Deleted member 38366]

Hm, now that's extremely awkward.

Assist OFF gives you a specific "power forward" with variable Results the SRV happily accepts, actual speed attained then solely depends on Terrain slope driven on.
So going downhill at a certain Throttle setting shoud make the SRV go a tad faster, in level Terrain the setting gives you a lower speed and on a steep upward slope of a High-G planet, that Throttle Setting might actually cease forward motion as it's insufficient.

I've got 6.12MM in the SRV but not once experienced a "Throttle jump" while in Assist OFF (?)
The only Throttle anomaly I recall was the old "50% Throttle bug", which set the actual Throttle to dead-idle when exactly hitting 50% Throttle. That's fixed though for all I know.

PS.
If you're using a Thrustmaster or other big HOTAS, there's numerous reports of varying USB Voltage being able to mess around with Control Inputs (gives "ghost Inputs").
Changing USB port often helps that.

But when that's the case, you should also see the same issues flying your Ship IMHO - so I guess that's not a factor.

 

[sgurr]

Drive assist ON is the default that it announces when deploying from your ship, I think FalconFly's right, try DA-off. You should see Drive Assist Off in the upper right display, same place as FA-off. It won't show anything if you're DA-on.

Edit: actually thinking about it the announcer's voice could be confused with off, but it's definitely DA-on in my srv by default.