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Do you hate regular cruise control? How is that not partial self driving?
by fzzzy 5y ago
Do you hate regular cruise control? How is that not partial self driving?
- ghaff 5y agoTo tell you the truth, I generally do and haven't used it for ages. Where I drive, the roads have some amount of traffic. I find (traditional) cruise control encourages driving at a constant speed to a degree that I wouldn't as a driver with a foot on the gas. So I don't "hate" regular cruise control but I basically never use it.
- hcurtiss 5y agoI think you are in a distinct minority.
- ghaff 5y agoMaybe a fairly small sample size but I don't know the last time I've been in a car where the driver has turned on cruise control. But it probably varies by area of the country. In the Northeast, there's just enough traffic in general that it's not worth it for me.
- minhazm 5y agoIn traffic is where traffic aware cruise control is most useful. A lot of people I knew who bought Tesla's in the bay area specifically bought it so their commutes would be less stressful with the bumper to bumper traffic. I drove 3000+ miles across the country last year with > 90% of it on AP and I was way less tired with AP on vs off and it allowed me to just stay focused on the road and look out for any issues.
- ghaff 5y agoYes. I was (explicitly) talking about traditional "dumb" cruise control. I haven't used adaptive cruise control but I agree it sounds more useful than traditional cruise control once you get above minimal traffic.
- int_19h 5y agoOne thing worth noting about Subaru's approach to this that is specifically relevant to bumper-to-bumper traffic, is that it will stop by itself, but it won't start moving by itself - the driver needs to tap the accelerator for that. It will warn you when the car in front starts moving, though.