New 2025 Hybrid SXP. Really enjoying it. One of my primary considerations was lane centering. My girlfriend's Subaru has it and I love it but her Subaru ping-pongs. So I tested a lot including Mazda CX5/50, Rav4, CRV, and others. My experience was that Kia was the easiest to use and worked the best in terms of not ping-ponging. So here I am.
Overall, I love it. To me, there are two functions that I turn off and on: (1) Adaptive Cruise Control and (2) Lane Centering. There is also apparently a Lane Departure feature that is on all the time (over 45mph only I think). So I think what I call Adaptive Cruise Control, Kia calls Smart Cruise Control. And I think what I call Lane Centering, Kia calls Highway Driving Assist, although it's confusing because the HDA sections in the manual and videos also talk about maintaining distance (from the car in front of me) but if HDA is doing that then what is SCC doing? Anyway, fine, I know how to turn both those on and adjust my speed and from there, the car does what I want while I nap (I kid).
But what the heck with all the icons on the dash Kia - very poor product design. I have no idea what most of the icons are telling me about my ADAS situation in any particular moment. The only icons I know real well are the steering wheel (HDA) - when it's white, it's on but not active and when it's green it's on and active. And cruise control set speed - when it's on and when it's active. But there are other HDA icons and indicators that I have no idea what are telling me and there must be dozens of permutations in terms of which ones are on, which are white, white are green, which are flashing, and which are solid. Maybe hundreds. As just one example, what do each of these four conditions mean in isolation:
"NAV" solid white
"NAV" blinking white
"NAV" solid green
"NAV" blinking green
The manual nor the videos describe this.
Thanks!
