My 30AE keeps advising me to ‘take a break’, sometimes after only 20 minutes of driving. Is it just me and what my car obviously sees as terrible driving, or do others get the same advice?
PS: I just receive my 18th trust level promotion so I must be doing something right!
Regards
Nick
I get the same thing from my 30AE. Sometimes it is 20 minutes, Sometimes an hour or more.
Does anyone know how to turn off the notifications?
My neighbour’s Son-in-Law was pulled over because he was weaving all over the empty B-road. However, he has dash-cams front and rear and he was able to show the Police they were doing exactly the same, avoiding all the pot-holes.
Fortunately they saw the funny side of it, and admired his car for a few minutes instead.
However, the point of this story is that quite a few modern vehicles can detect if the car is not consistently staying in lane and instead wandering - a classic sign of tiredness! I don’t know if the 30AE has such a feature, but it would not surprise me.
This is interesting, I wonder exactly what is being monitored in order to activate the warning. Can anyone in the know on here enlighten us? RR perhaps?
Yes the 30AE has DAA (Driver Attention Alert) and we do occasionally see it being activated when it does not ‘seem’ appropriate. I would never consider turning this safety aid off because although it ‘seems’ to be alerting me unnecessarily it could well be that I am indeed being inattentive and do not realise it.
I’ll try to pay more attention to when it happens. I do indeed have lane departure warning, which sometimes kicks in when pulling back in after overtaking on a motorway (who indicates left at that point?) or on narrow lanes where ‘Serge’ would like more room between him and the white line, so that may be it.
Apparently depending on the age of the system, either steering inputs and/or driving time. Can’t remember exactly which age of system did which. 7th generation Mazda’s have a driver monitoring camera which looks at drivers eye movements and advises from that.
Hmm, so if driver is wearing polaroid shades (specifically) the camera will not be seeing much of the eyes. What does it do then?
It’s all in the Owners Manual. I think it might use head posture to a degree as well.
Does it print out free
tokens as well?.
In all complete honesty, I think I’ve read it all now!
I despair. 
Thanks for all the replies, looks like it might be my driving then! I just scooted through the 563 pages of the manual and cant find anything on it, but i’ll look again when i have more time.
I’ve taken my 19 plate between Glasgow and Edinburgh a few times recently and I always get the warning around the hour mark, maybe slightly before. Makes me think there is for sure a warning at a certain time. Interestingly I don’t remember any warnings when I went up north, which was many more hours. Suggests maybe something to do with monotonous motorway driving at speed compared to single track twistys at slower speed? Never had it as quickly as 20 mins.
From Mazda.
Driver Attention Alert is designed to detect changes in driving that could be caused by fatigue. The system works by ‘learning’ your driving style and monitoring the steering wheel angle and driving speed. It then combines this with information from the forward sensing camera. When it detects fatigue induced behaviour, the car periodically provides visual and audible alerts suggesting you take a break.
Blimey! What happens when your wife/partner drives or takes over driving of the car? Does it go beserk?
It shuts off immediately.
Auto-woke prompt & misogyny blocking sensors.
No point in arguing anyhow. 
I’ve only seen mine warn after about 2 hrs. Its in the manual p.4-37:
“Driver Attention Alert
The DAA is a system which detects driver fatigue and decreased attentiveness and encourages the driver to take a rest.
When the vehicle is driven inside traffic lane lines at about 65 to 140kmk (41 to 86 mph), the DAA estimates the amount of accumulated fatigue and decreased attentiveness of the driver based on the information from the Forward Sensing Camer (FSC) and other vehicle information, and encourages the driver to take a rest using an indication on the multi-information display and a warning sound.”
Not sure what the “other vehicle information” is or if turning off the lane departure warning system effects it, but I suspect not.
Not saying she gets more distracted than myself when driving, as it may have come across. I was thinking she is quite a bit shorter than me so the system would probably see the top of her head rather than her eyes after I have been driving it 
I have an auto alert for everything, she’s called my wife, " 40, the sign says 40, slow down " …" watch that cyclist" , " but he’s on the other side of the road"… " well you can’t be too careful " or now its those electronic signs that only show a smiley face when your doing 30mph or less, " slow down , he’s miserable, your doing 33 " 