The Eye Nanny and Progressive Lenses

[Accord07]

Just got my Blue Cruise update and I wondered if anybody else has experienced the same quirk I’m seeing. I was getting “Watch the Road” (WtR) warnings even when I was staring straight out the front window. Very frustrating. I wear prescription glasses with every coating known to man on them so I wondered if maybe an anti reflective coating was interfering with the Eye Nanny (EN). So next time I got the WtR warning I lifted my glasses above my eyes, and the warning went away. Great, I have to have my glasses, so I guess no Blue Cruise for me.

But it didn’t happen all the time, so I did some more experiments. And I think it is instead a problem with my progressive lenses. I noticed when the WtR warning came up, if I tilted my head down slightly so that I could see the EN through the upper portion of my lenses, the warning would go away. And when I tilted my head back slightly so that the EN was looking through the bottom part of my lenses (the part with the greatest correction) the warning would pop up.

Anyway, a very slight change in my head position fixed the problem. i was just wondering if anybody else is seeing something similar.

Similar glasses here, no issues so far.

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[Cm12]

I thought there weren’t any BlueCruise roads in your part of HI?

Unfortunately, the eye nanny is active even on non-BlueCruise roads unless it is completely disabled in the car. The eye nanny is so horrible in mine - even with both hands on the wheel and looking forward - that I have resorted to completely disabling it. The eye nanny should have been positioned overhead instead of where your hands will block it if you’re driving with them on the wheel. Otherwise, you risk brake checking drivers behind you solely because of the unbelievably bad positioning of the eye nanny.

 

[Deleted member 3569]

I wear prescription progressive sunglasses w/UV coating and never have experienced any problems either .... but when I attempted to take video w/my phone, i.e. I had to pan back and forth that's when the Eye Nannie told me to cut out it and get my eyeballs back to the road again .... and I was doing over 75 mph !!!

 

[mburtsvt]

It seems to only happen, (the warning) when I close my eyes - very strange.

 

[Deleted member 3569]

It seems to only happen, (the warning) when I close my eyes - very strange.

to me the Eye Nanny is a remarkable designed system it has the ability to monitor the position of your eyeballs at all the time .... not your eyes. I discovered that when I hid my eyeballs behind my phone when videoing when the Eye Nanny got mad at me ...

 

[Kamuelaflyer]

I thought there weren’t any BlueCruise roads in your part of HI?

Hands on BlueCruise works in many locations here. It still has Bitchin Betty.

 

[Nklem]

Just got my Blue Cruise update and I wondered if anybody else has experienced the same quirk I’m seeing. I was getting “Watch the Road” (WtR) warnings even when I was staring straight out the front window. Very frustrating. I wear prescription glasses with every coating known to man on them so I wondered if maybe an anti reflective coating was interfering with the Eye Nanny (EN). So next time I got the WtR warning I lifted my glasses above my eyes, and the warning went away. Great, I have to have my glasses, so I guess no Blue Cruise for me.

But it didn’t happen all the time, so I did some more experiments. And I think it is instead a problem with my progressive lenses. I noticed when the WtR warning came up, if I tilted my head down slightly so that I could see the EN through the upper portion of my lenses, the warning would go away. And when I tilted my head back slightly so that the EN was looking through the bottom part of my lenses (the part with the greatest correction) the warning would pop up.

Anyway, a very slight change in my head position fixed the problem. i was just wondering if anybody else is seeing something similar.

Yes finally someone with the same issue I have. The sun makes it 10 times worse for me and I cannot use BC when the sun is shining at me. My Opinion is it's related to the anti glare or blue light coating on your lenses. That is what I have found. Progressives should not make any difference, I have them too. I am going to try my old progressive glasses soon (No coatings) and see if this issue is resolved.

It really stinks to only use BC on cloudy days for me......

 

[Jimrpa]

It seems to only happen, (the warning) when I close my eyes - very strange.

Have pictures of eyes tattooed on your eyelids - problem solved!

 

[Jimrpa]

Hands on BlueCruise works in many locations here. It still has Bitchin Betty.

Ah. I’m still not used to the new terminology where EVERYTHING is branded BlueCruise. We no longer have accelerator pedals and brake pedals - we have “Foot operated BlueCruise” ?
I guess I’m lucky or something. Other than times when I wanted to trigger the eye alert, I’ve never gotten it.

 

[Davedough]

I don't have progressive lenses, but I've noticed my car will scream at me to watch the road if I'm wearing my polarized sunglasses and the sun is in front of me, even a slight degree. If its brighter in the front of my car and my sunglasses are doing their job, the eye nanny doesn't like it.

Also, from one of the other posts. On non-BlueCruise driving, its extremely frustrating that I can't have cruise control on and have my hand resting at the 12 o clock position without getting the warnings. Pretty big oversight. The eye nanny shouldn't come on with regular cruise control.

 

[MightyJawa]

My new theory is it’s just the frame of my glasses that is getting in the way. My glasses are on the smallish side but my prescription is more on the “coke bottle” side. So the amount of refraction it is doing means when I can see the EN through the very bottom of my glasses, from the EN’s point of view, the frame of my glasses is crossing through the edge of my eye (or very close to it).

Regardless, my solution of just tilting my head down ever so slightly has fixed things. No more problems even in broad daylight.

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