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Ah, yeah, I see how what I wrote was not clear. Cruise control was significantly worse than driving it normally, at least when I was at the wheel. The route i
by csydas 10y ago
Ah, yeah, I see how what I wrote was not clear.
Cruise control was significantly worse than driving it normally, at least when I was at the wheel.
The route is a very hilly one, so I somewhat suspect it's that the cruise control was not very good at knowing when to accelerate and when to coast.
- jessaustin 10y agoI find that the cruise control on a 2015 Hyundai (automatic transmission) always gets better mileage than I can without, even on hilly trips. (Where I live all trips are hilly.) I do help it out by shifting to neutral when on long downhill stretches.
- omegaham 10y agoIt's definitely that. My 2007 Civic doesn't account for incline when doing cruise control. It has some sort of lookup table that says, "When the owner sets me to 65 miles per hour, I go at this RPM." If I keep slowing down because I'm on a hill, it downshifts a gear and accelerates hard until the car goes back up to 65 miles per hour. Wash, rinse, repeat. I always disabled cruise control on hills because of it. My fiancee's 2014 Nissan Rogue accounts for hills with cruise control, and it never has these intervals.