Do you use cruise control? I’ve always rawdogged it on the highway/driving.
Funny you posted this, I just tried it on my car for the first time today and it just made me feel uncomfortable. I like having control.
my kia drives itself on the highway, hands in your lap, just gotta jiggle the wheel a bit every so often when the warning message comes onthat said, cruise control is of no use on winding roads and steep grades and a LOT of my driving is that too, and that requires manual mode on the transmission as well because NA 4 bangers are shit @ having torqueI dream of more torque all the time.
>>28895992>>28895994Fuck cruise control. The only time I want to use it is in bumper-to-bumper traffic and that's the only fucking time I can't use it.
it is nice to use on long highway drives, lets your legs relax and you don't have to worry about drifting over the speed limit too much
>>28895998Maybe I guess on those middle of nowhere highways in the western states
>>28895992Always use cruise control. Retards on the highway that can’t set a speed cause issues
>>28896007I bet it's faga like you in the passing lane set to cruise control at the exact speed limit
>>28895992I usually don't use it on my older cars, but adaptive cruise control is probably one of my favorite "modern" features. Set it to 90mph, and even if you run into rush hour traffic you still won't have to touch it one bit because it'll keep up with traffic (at the distance you set) and speed up only if/once there's space. There's usually too much traffic and too many retarded drivers to rely on "standard" cruise control in my experience, unless your plan is to sit in the right lane, go a few mph slower and let the retards that can't pick a speed hog the other lanes (you'll catch up to them because they keep bunching up and slamming on the brakes anyway).
>>28896011this only works if the road isn't super curvyI bet some systems work better than mine on that, but I don't have a sense of it, it needs to better understand you need to downshift and brake hard for hairpin turns, once it masters that...
I like regular cruise control. With adaptive it brakes instead of coasting and it's annoying to me
>>28896010Nah I just set to 5 over and hang out in the right until passing. I get annoyed when mouth breathers lose speed going up hills and speed up going back down, causes a lot of unnecessary passing.
>>28895992Nah, I prefer to always be in control.
>>28895992Highly depends what I'm driving on. If it's a boring mostly straight flat interstate or highway, I turn on the radar cruise. It's pretty neat that it works with the stick and knows not to punch it when I clutch in to downshift or upshift.
>>28895992I have a '90 crown victoria and the stupid retarded ford cruise control will just give up if you go 7mph below the set speed, so it will often disable cruise before it gets to the point where it disables overdrive, and it drives me mad.my '88 chevy van doesn't care, I can set it to 65 (downhill) and I'll be crawling up the next hill at 45 on cruise, no problem.
Not a fan, prefer to use the accelerator because it helps to keep me from getting bored on long stretches of highway.
Haven't used or thought about it in 10+ yrs. It's not really my thing.It is good for interstate drives over 2 hours like whatever that florida panhandle road is or lots of texas, for examples. But I haven't driven 2 hours at a time in years.
>>28895992I fucking love cruise control, and it's about the only thing I pine for on my older cars. My MGB looks to have had an aftermarket cruise control system fitted in the 90's, but the previous owner must've taken it out some time after acquiring the car. Anyone got any experience with rostra add-on cruise control?
>>28896030Even better is when they lose speed at the bottom of a hill, then half way up decide to boot it to make up speed again ensuring they use as much fuel as possible. My car doesn't have cruise, too old. I really miss having it but then again when I had a car with cruise I was constantly catching up to people even when I was doing the speed limit. Having cruise really highlights how dogshit people really are at maintaining a constant speed.
>>28895992I activate it the second I get up to speed in my tracked work van because that's the only way to get myself to not speed. I always use it on the highway in my personal vehicles because people who can't hold their speed deserve a very slow and excruciating death.
>>28896000This. All my Interstate driving is on the busy ones in NJ and PA, so I have no opportunity to use cruise control. But once I drove on US 30 in Ohio, and that was empty enough for cruise control to be worth using.Also, checked.
>>28896116but anon adaptive cruise control works BEST in heavy trafficif you account for the fact that if you leave a big gap on the settings people will cut you off (which to me is better than being tailed)ive noticed my cruise control runs fully hands free below like 30mph or somethinglike if you are in a traffic jam it just steers and drives itself for as long as the jam goes on without needing any input or asking for hands on the wheel at all u ever been to hocking hills?allamuchy state park?
>>28895992Persoanlly I don't like how it removes the driver-car interaction. It's like an automatic transmission for your gas pedal.
only if I go on a road trip
>>28895992All the time. I'll put it on for the ~2-3 miles @ 35mph to get to my neighborhood, and the 55mph state road before that. I probably turn it on any time I know a road could go 2+ miles at a constant speed limit.
>>28895992Only if its adaptive cruise. Just turn it on and zone out.
The highways here date back to the 1930s with constant curves and narrow lanes so I've never known what it was like to actually use it.
>>28895992When it's good. In the new Prius, it worked out pretty nicely. In my car (which called it "intelligent" cruise control), it can be useful, but mostly not.First, it's capped at 110kmph so already partially useless. At stop and go traffic, if it comes to a stop, it will disengage. And it cannot predict stops well enough. I'll see a line of cars coming up and it'll be fucking flooring it until the last moment and slam its brakes.So, really it is only good when traffic is below 110kmpb on the highway, which is rare.
>>28896141>he doesn't have multiple high idle/cruise control sticks
Bradley's have a high idle plunger we used to use as ghetto cruise control on road marches
No, it's suboptimal to use cruise control with a hybrid. It will not read ahead and use electric mode to get a run at a hill, instead it will engage the engine when it reaches the hill. Gas is expensive so I press that pedal properly.
no one else uses it so i have to keep slowing down
>>28895992I told my best buddy I never use cruise control and he said it's because I don't drive enough.
I absolutely do and wish all of my vehicles had it. Just took my 40 year old sports car on a 500+ mile round trip to see family last weekend (why own a car if you won't drive it??) and it would have been nice to have cruise control to maintain 75 mph along the interstate that whole time. My leg was starting to get tired near the endstill managed to consistently get 24 mpg both ways too which ain't too bad
My Z has radar cruise control. Pretty nice for traffic or super long drives. Don't use it too often though.
>>28896370He must have an easy commute
>>28895992Nah, makes me nervous. I like being in control of my car
>>28895992>Do you use cruise control?Yeah. I used to get a lot of speeding tickets and cruise control keeps me from trying to pass everyone. If I don't have cruise on I feel compelled to pass and drive as fast as I can safely and that's invariably well over the speed limit.
>>28895992Never, I'm steering the wheel and moving the machine, I'm locked in bro
>>28895992I never did and only started about two years ago. Maybe it's the age...
>cruising in my truuug>steep hill some up>downshifts and slams the gas>BRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPjesus fuck that scared the shit out of me
I have to use the CC or I get speeding tickets
>>28895992Cruise control is at its best on empty straight highways, but everytime I used it in these conditions, the complete lack of stimulation put me to sleep. I'll take the loss in mpg if it keeps me from crashing into a guardrail like a dumbass.>i
>>28896362Being a hybridcuck is a part time job. Niggers don't even enjoy the drive, just try to max out the MPG.
Only on spidey-sense speed trap areas.More recently, there are 'apenly marked' ""AVERAGE SPEED ZONES"" Onions yes, I do use CC.In my 4 wheeled vehicle, at least.
>>28895992One don't have it, one hast it but it doest work and the 3rd one with working cruise control is an autotragic so it does dumb shit with the cruise on like downshift and go WOT for 2 seconds and then up shift so I turn it off. You're on the highway. Just stay in top gear.
>>28896097>lose speed at the bottom of a hill, then half way up decide to boot it to make up speed again ensuring they use as much fuel as possible.Thats what cruise control does
>>28896743What kind of shitty CC are you using? Mine always just maintain speed up and down
>>28895992>>28896010nta if im driving on a straight highway for 3 hours at least, yeah i fucking use it all the time. i set it up to to 70-80 if the traffic allows, otherwise my foot will get tired. You still have control, braking or accelerating in most (all?) cars still works as it should, desu you just need your foot near the brake at all times and not to fall asleep.
I think there's so much variability in programming and hardware and software design that people who don't use cruise control are probably used to shitty systems. My question is, does anyone have a newer/fancier/luxury car with GOOD cruise control that actually works well around tight bends and up and down steep grades?
>>28895992I recently (4 years ago) started using cruise control all the fucking time.I dont have ACC, but its very nice to set the cruise to 10 over the limit and just sit in the right lane going over little hills and watching people fall back and loose speed since they have no idea how to properly drive up an incline.its nice to use on straight roads and going up hills in lower gear
>>28895992>Do you use cruise control? Cruise control, no. I prefer the speed governor (my car has both). This way I still have full control over acceleration.
>>28896096>Anyone got any experience with rostra add-on cruise control?really shitty and overpriced but better than nothing
>>28895992On the highways? All the time.
All the time any speed
Auto is unbearable without cruise control
>>28895992I use it enough I bothered to install the OEM cruise control on my Miata I bought that wasn't optioned with it.
>>28897351we live in a primitive age where I somehow still have to do the transmission myself (on an auto-tragic) if the highway isn't flat and straightotherwise the second it hits any sort of downhill grade it shifts into 8th gear and curves are sketchy
>>28896096Lose the weeblet bullshit and get another E30 already godsDAMN
>28897355>car:|>car, german:O
>>28896118I use cruise control as soon as I'm not the freewayadaptive cruise is useless bullshit that takes too long to accelerateAnd why the FUCK do you slowfaglets want to be BEHIND someone?I'm constantly passing non-cruise users as they are always yoyoing around
>>28896205You're what's wrong with murican highways
>>28896396It's about DISTANCE not EASE
>>28896406How do you lose control of your vehicle when using cruise control lol
>>28897359>adaptive cruise is useless bullshit that takes too long to accelerateit works fine except stop and go, it doesn't pull away from a red light as fast as you would, BUT, you can just put your foot on the go pedal and that doesn't deactivate the ACC so it's fine and at highway speeds it accelerates plenty on my machine as long as you make sure if its in manual gearing you are in a low enough oneOH I WISH I HAD SHIFTER PADDLES>>28897361I simply do not drive in places that flat.
>>28897368um sometimes it randomly accelerates too fast around a curve because it doesn't understand to slow down for curves or to downshiftand, rarely, it just randomly deactivates the lane assist and boots you out of the lane if you aren't paying attentionit seems tar strips in the lane upset it the most
>>28896841You need to go FASTER if you're falling asleep>>28896846>My question is, does anyone have a newer/fancier/luxury car with GOOD cruise control that actually works well around tight bends and up and down steep grades?Just werks in my machinas *shrug nigmoji*
>>28897357No, weeblet bullshits just suckSorry not sorryHope that helps!
>>28897374>slow down for curvesyour cruise control is less gay than you
>>28897369I don't have that adaptive bullshit in any have my cars, but I had a loaner es350 (i think it was a 2016 or 2018 model), and holy fuck using the adaptive bullshit was just dreadfulEvery setting follows too far behind the car in frontWhen you leave the lane to pass them, it takes forever to accelerate, but it slams on the breaks when someone goes into your laneIt's as if it was just made for "npcs" in the parlance of our timesAnd what does elevation change have to do with anything?If your car's cruise control can't handle a mountain drive, it's fuckin useless
>>28897374That lane assist stuff is "npc" bullshit too
>>28897380söy cope
I like to, but it seems no one else on the road is capable of driving a consistent speed, or not merging directly into you even when there's massive space ahead and behind you
>>28897394it works great most of the time and is quite helpful when you are tired and or sore>>28897393I have mine set to the furthest follow settingits funny because basically when ACC was a new tech almost ALL the car reviews complained the following distances were too far away so on my machine the following distances are pretty closewhen it comes to a full stop - it stops like 2 ft away which is insane but it always does stop its just disconcerting its technically stop and go but not the best example of the genre>it takes forever to accelerate, but it slams on the breaks when someone goes into your laneit really varies by machine, mine is pretty smooth except when someone slows down a lot while exiting or turning but otherwise you barely feel it braking, like its smoother at braking than I am with the pedal >And what does elevation change have to do with anything?you want a lower gear for a steep grade, whether uphill or downhill, as well as for lateral curvature (hairpin turns) and it doesn't adjust like that so you have to manually gear it>If your car's cruise control can't handle a mountain drive, it's fuckin uselessthere are mountains and then there are mountainsits ok on the interstate but you aren't gonna use ACC on a winding 2 lane mountain road unless you have a much fancier system than I do and I wanna watch that in action tbqhi was recently in the smokies and the roads there are endlessly windingacc really only works well for 4 lane parkways and interstates
>>28897409Huh?The weeblet bullshits are "söy" as fuck to use the parlance of our times
>>28897424uhhhh can i get a v8 (no exhaust noise please), but with a raised suspension, wagon, comfort suspension, tiny ass wheels and tires (but wide)and seats like a 90s cadillac
>>28897424see>>28897357so are you
>>28897060>better than nothingWell, beggars can't be choosers, I suppose...>>28897355pic rel
>>28897424Huh?
>>28897420The es350 i had couldn't do stop and go traffic. I think cruise could only be enabled at ~25mph and overAll my cars downshift for a grade when using cruise controlI've used cruise control on hwy 17; the less gears the transmission has the less smooth the downshifts are, but I do like to have some fun up there so the cruis control doesn't really get much use in the twisties
>>28897428That's probably the most reddit car ever>>28897429Huh?One have those is a v6let and the other is a TWIN TURBOCHARGED V8They're not even in the same "ballpark"They aren't even in the same fuckin LEAGUE>>28897436Some people say cucumbers taste better pickledI happen to be one have those individuals>>28897432Picrel
>>28897461whatever you say, söyboy
>>28897528I accept your concession, söy
>>28895992Never, unless it's ACC
>>28895992I use it so I can swing a leg up onto the bench seat so your mom can really get her tongue in there and clean up my gooch juice on long rides.
>>28897354Shut up kiatard
>>28896116Thats also where all my interstate driving is and I use cruise control every day so I don't speed and get tickets. 78 and 95 are thick with staties on both sides of the border.
>>28895992>10 year old acura>sandwich mode engaged>follows the car in front of you>stops when they stop>goes when they go>even steers for you>hands and feet off the controls eating my sandwichmy other car is 20 years old and i rewrote a lot the ecu code, i use the cruise control buttons to switch fuel maps and manipulate ignition settings
>>28895992Cruise control is amazing and anyone who says otherwise is probably why people get bunched up on highways and interstates because they can’t maintain speed to save their life. Why wouldn’t you want to enjoy more fuel efficient and comfortable cruising?
>>28901033Cruise control is less fuel efficient than a wise driver.The reason there are clusters of cars on interstates is due to lane discipline (going too slow in a left lane) not because people don't use cruise control. If anything someone hanging out in the left or center lanes causes these "bunched up" scenarios.The Autobahn doesn't have such issues because lane discipline is taken seriously. It has nothing to do with people not using cruise control.
>>28895992>mfw cruise control
>>28895992I recently bought a manual car with cruise control and the seller insisted it's a rare feature with manual. I'd never noticed that before
Little to no traffic? Yeah. In medium to heavy traffic? No. Also fuck adaptive cruise control. Was once in Italy and was going 130 kmfs and it picked up a 40km/h sign on the offramp and smashed the brakes hard. And I was in a relative amount of traffic. I did get used to it where if I saw it pick up another one I would time it and press into the gas as I felt it ease off before braking and that would override it. But that was just another thing you had to have your mind on so it really was not helpful at all. It would also over accommodate for someone else's rubber band driving just exacerbating the issue.
>>28895992Went from a 20 yo poorfag car to a 2018 Audi with adaptive cruise control. It's amazing on long straights and in bumper-to-bumper traffic. You have to get used to turning it on and off whenever its useful or not and that requires being attentive to the road and traffic. I dont use it when going on mountain roads or when I dont have a car in front of me.
>>28902750adaptive cruise control is the gayest jew shit out there>oh looks like there's a car 10 miles ahead of you, better slam your brakes and ruin your fuel efficiency
>>28902776skill issue, set it up properly
as an otr tuck driver id fucking kill myself if cruise control wasnt an optionthe couple times it wasn’t working on my truck was awful
