Adaptive cruise control

[HenryMac]

ACC is an absolute godsend in parts of the world like ours where speed limits are heavily policed and brutally enforced. There are cameras mounted behind roadsign gantries and overpasses, completely unmarked camera cars (innocent-looking SUVs and midsize wagons) as well as every police car is equipped with radar, not just the highway patrols. Oh, and radar detectors are very much illegal and the highway patrols are equipped with radar-detector-detectors (ask me how I know ? ). I got clocked and fined by a camera at 104km/h in a 100 zone a while ago, 1 demerit point and a $200 fine. Now had I been doing 110 it would have been 3 points and $330, had I been doing 120 it would have been 3 months license suspension and $330. The ACC does most of my driving for me now and the speed sign recognition is also very much appreciated.
**Sorry about the long rant...!

Well, if you drove the speed limit and obeyed traffic laws, as you said you would when you signed your drivers license, you wouldn't have anything to worry about.

Honesty and integrity still matter. Would you prefer anarchy, where people just steal everything you have?

There are places in this country like that. Feel free to give it a try.

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[tentspast]

Well, if you drove the speed limit and obeyed traffic laws, as you said you would when you signed your drivers license, you wouldn't have anything to worry about.

Honesty and integrity still matter. Would you prefer anarchy, where people just steal everything you have?

There are places in this country like that. Feel free to give it a try.

You may have missed my point, which was that ACC is very helpful to avoid inadvertently speeding, for example down a hill - where it's very easy to creep 5km/h over the speed limit before you realise it. I do 60,000km per year for my job and consider myself a conscientious driver, but it is easy to drift over the speed limit by accident. No need to be insulting.

 

[peterson1604]

It's kind of like power windows, once you have them you never want to have another vehicle without it.

 

[Tony Robyn]

I personally hate adaptive cruise control. We bought an XL on purpose just to avoid all the technology that comes on the XLT and Lariat.

Hell... the accident alert went off the other day... we were traveling up an inclined section of road, in town, driving 25 mph with the cruise control on, with nothing at all in front of us. Only thing I can figure is it saw the sun reflecting off an overhead power line that was crossing the road?

In this situation in cruise on an incline did it ever shift hard between gears?

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