Pilot car crashed lol

[Catratio]

I failed the mission because the police car ahead of me apparently ran into a car stopped at a red light. I saw it mostly all go down, though I didn't see the impact, but the police car was kinda jittery for a second there as it looked like it was trying to pump its brakes and then the mission failed box came up, saying something like it had to do with bad driving. Not sure how it's my fault, I was going 25 and slowing down myself. Still funny though. At least the checkpoint was only 30 seconds back.

[Trucker_71]

I keep getting brake checked by the police car, even when he has no one in front of him. :-(

[Catratio]

Happens to me too, during long stretches of highway he slows for seemingly no reason. Also every time a vehicle comes toward me in the opposite lane he veers over almost across the yellow line until he's right next to them, then returns to normal.

[Madkine]

Originally posted by Catratio:

Happens to me too, during long stretches of highway he slows for seemingly no reason. Also every time a vehicle comes toward me in the opposite lane he veers over almost across the yellow line until he's right next to them, then returns to normal.

By moving to the centre he forces the AI vehicle wide to give you extra room for your load.

[string28]

Save before you start on your route. And learn to save along the route. Then if something happens you don't loose everything.

[margalus]

It happened to me once when the pilot car crossed the center line to force the oncoming traffic closer to their shoulder. Unfortunately a bus decided to play chicken and the hit head on...

[cbr2000rider]

Did my first run last night,I completely lost my lead cop car when he stopped for no reason on the empty highway. I just took off and finished the run anyways LOL

[Enorats]

Originally posted by Trucker_71:

I keep getting brake checked by the police car, even when he has no one in front of him. :-(

This has happened to me SO many times. Half the time when you come up to an on ramp the escort vehicle brake checks you by coming to a complete stop before proceeding.. even if nobody is at the on ramp, or has already been stopped by the officer standing there.

[Red River]

sounds like they have a lot of bugs to iron out.. good thing I didn't buy this DLC yet then!

[Ryu]

I must have been extremely lucky? In all the ST loads I've done in ATS the worst that has happened is I had the rear escort get crashed by traffic one time.

I've seen the lead doing the brake stuttering when coming to a light where other traffic was stopped, but never had them crash into that traffic.

I've had the lead car brake checking only when I stray too far out of the lane we're in when I'm trying to take a wider path around a tight bend so that the trailer will clear.

And the lead escort only stopped two times when attempting lane changes due to AI traffic being trapped between me and the rear escort. Moving over so the AI could get out solved it both times.

[ttower]

Originally posted by ~{DCMT}~ Ryu:

I've had the lead car brake checking only when I stray too far out of the lane we're in when I'm trying to take a wider path around a tight bend so that the trailer will clear.

One of the thins I have noticed, is the AI in front of the Police Car brake for the Cop on the On-Ramps, who are blocking traffic from joining the highway. It seems like they are treating the Cop like he is on the shoulder, and are slowing down as a result, meaning that the Lead Cop has to slow down because of the cars in front of them.

[synthohol]

Like ~{DCMT}~ Ryu said, I had't had any major issues with escort cars except for some random braking at ramps. However, I had a more or less random car explosion in Farmington shortly after starting a ST to Raton. Apparently 15 cars or so were to be spawned at the same place at the same time.
Might be mod-related, although I didn't encounter any issue with my current set so far.

[IndigoAK]

The AI driving is why I use a no traffic mod. They just don't behave believably in any circumstance and frankly, I got tired of being fined every time I got rearended or t-boned despite my lawful driving.

[YOGI]

HAHAHA...this POST is just to FUNNY...wonder it the guy has MODS on or not? Most times guy refuse to "SAY" this in the Header (MODS ON) and it just adds to more Confusion I figure? (needed a good belly laugh thanks!)

[Trucker_71]

You don't need a mod for no traffic. Activate your dev console and type G_traffic 0 to turn off traffic, change the 0 to 1 to bring it back.

[IndigoAK]

Originally posted by Trucker_71:

You don't need a mod for no traffic. Activate your dev console and type G_traffic 0 to turn off traffic, change the 0 to 1 to bring it back.

Does that persist between game sessions? Because if it not, it's easier to use a mod.