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On my Subaru I can only activate cruise control below 85mph but once it is on you can dial it up. I am sure the car world is full of things like this. And wher
by chrisBob 12y ago
On my Subaru I can only activate cruise control below 85mph but once it is on you can dial it up. I am sure the car world is full of things like this.
And where do you have to set to car to 30 when the limit is 30 anyway?
- Mojah 12y agoThis is actually useful in Belgium, where roads aren't made of asfalt but of speed cameras. Every zone with a 30km/h limit has a bunch of speed cameras. The cruise control just keeps you safe and steady, without crossing the limit.
- masklinn 12y agoI generally find cruise control to not be the most useful there though, it's usually within villages and you'll often have to slow down because reasons (stops, speed bumps, traffic-calming chicanes, red lights, …) so I tend to use the speed limiter more.
- arethuza 12y ago"speed limiter" Is that the thing that can be set to beep whenever you go over a particular speed (most VW Group cars seem to have this) or something that enforces a hard limit?
- DangerousPie 12y agoUsually they don't just beep but actually ignore gas pedal input if it would put you above a certain speed (unless you push it all the way down, in which case it overrides the limiter).
- arethuza 12y agoThe ones I've had on VW Group cars (Golfs and a Skoda Yeti) just beep and give you a message on the display when a configurable speed is exceeded.
- masklinn 12y agoThat strikes me as oddly pointless. All the limiters I've used did what DangerousPie talks about, beyond the threshold they'd restrict/ignore gas input, unless the accelerator is floored which overrides the limiter.
- arethuza 12y agoWell, just goes to show - I really like it (as does my wife) - something that actually interferes with throttle input strikes me as very intrusive! :-)