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You could just admit that you used the wrong term? One car length = the length of a car.
by VBprogrammer 4y ago
You could just admit that you used the wrong term? One car length = the length of a car.
- branon 4y agoSure, I'm fine with admitting that. It was an inevitable misunderstanding anyway because cars are different lengths so "car length" is largely meaningless. The Subaru's adaptive cruise control system treats car lengths as variable units based on speed. It's much more liberal than I made it sound in the original comment. It sounded reasonable when I wrote it, but infinite nuance strikes again I suppose.
- foobazgt 4y agoHave an upvote for the adaptive cruise control comment. It's this way on the Tesla, too - follow distance is described as car lengths, but it's actually speed-parameterized follow distances in reality. Personally, I find it somewhat confusing, but people should probably be more aware that it's a thing and not necessarily someone mixing up terminology.