Cruise control
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OK so we may not be getting fully autonomous vehicles right now, but adaptive cruise control is my current favorite technology. I guess I'm late to the party because all this time our car has been just a box with wheels, engine and steering. However the new one (new to me :) ) has got a few more bells and whistles. Driving in traffic (which is most of the time) is much more bearable now. Slowing down is still a bit rough at very low speeds, but it does a pretty good job of following whatever is in front. At first I thought it would completely fail to see motorcycles, but even scooters are identified accurately (I don't trust it enough yet to actually allow it to follow one for extended periods of time) Does anyone here actually have a Tesla with autopilot? Or anyone testing Google's car? Other options have been a bit disappointing though. Lane-departure warning beeps for no apparent reason and is generally a mere annoyance, but to be honest a couple of dealers said it will be like that. Collision mitigation either completely ignores the thing in front or beeps a mile away. One day I'm going to completely leave it alone and see if it actually stops as claimed. When I find a car-sized balloon, or tarpaulin or something similar set up.
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OK so we may not be getting fully autonomous vehicles right now, but adaptive cruise control is my current favorite technology. I guess I'm late to the party because all this time our car has been just a box with wheels, engine and steering. However the new one (new to me :) ) has got a few more bells and whistles. Driving in traffic (which is most of the time) is much more bearable now. Slowing down is still a bit rough at very low speeds, but it does a pretty good job of following whatever is in front. At first I thought it would completely fail to see motorcycles, but even scooters are identified accurately (I don't trust it enough yet to actually allow it to follow one for extended periods of time) Does anyone here actually have a Tesla with autopilot? Or anyone testing Google's car? Other options have been a bit disappointing though. Lane-departure warning beeps for no apparent reason and is generally a mere annoyance, but to be honest a couple of dealers said it will be like that. Collision mitigation either completely ignores the thing in front or beeps a mile away. One day I'm going to completely leave it alone and see if it actually stops as claimed. When I find a car-sized balloon, or tarpaulin or something similar set up.
I am looking forward to when I get better cruise control. I have tended to set the cruise control a bit on the slow side so I can just cruise, but there are the times when I have to go off cruise control. I have managed to go maybe 200 miles without having to touch the cruise control. Almost made it from San Francisco to about 60 miles from LA on I-5 completely on cruise control, but there had been an accident on the other side. Fortunately not on my side since it completely blocked off traffic. On daily use it would help a lot since right now in SF bay area, and there is no way can just stay on cruise most of the time. I know have an old system since the cruise control does not maintain the set speed. Apparently still using the old tried and true system instead of computer control.
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OK so we may not be getting fully autonomous vehicles right now, but adaptive cruise control is my current favorite technology. I guess I'm late to the party because all this time our car has been just a box with wheels, engine and steering. However the new one (new to me :) ) has got a few more bells and whistles. Driving in traffic (which is most of the time) is much more bearable now. Slowing down is still a bit rough at very low speeds, but it does a pretty good job of following whatever is in front. At first I thought it would completely fail to see motorcycles, but even scooters are identified accurately (I don't trust it enough yet to actually allow it to follow one for extended periods of time) Does anyone here actually have a Tesla with autopilot? Or anyone testing Google's car? Other options have been a bit disappointing though. Lane-departure warning beeps for no apparent reason and is generally a mere annoyance, but to be honest a couple of dealers said it will be like that. Collision mitigation either completely ignores the thing in front or beeps a mile away. One day I'm going to completely leave it alone and see if it actually stops as claimed. When I find a car-sized balloon, or tarpaulin or something similar set up.
Indivara wrote:
One day I'm going to completely leave it alone and see if it actually stops as claimed.
Well don't run someone over like this test......Volvo auto brake system fail - YouTube[^]
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Indivara wrote:
One day I'm going to completely leave it alone and see if it actually stops as claimed.
Well don't run someone over like this test......Volvo auto brake system fail - YouTube[^]
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That must have hurt! It didn't seem to even slow down. No danger of that happening here, I won't be testing on people because mine uses some kind of radar that completely ignores pedestrians. That gives me an idea though, maybe aluminium foil will work as a fake vehicle.
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OK so we may not be getting fully autonomous vehicles right now, but adaptive cruise control is my current favorite technology. I guess I'm late to the party because all this time our car has been just a box with wheels, engine and steering. However the new one (new to me :) ) has got a few more bells and whistles. Driving in traffic (which is most of the time) is much more bearable now. Slowing down is still a bit rough at very low speeds, but it does a pretty good job of following whatever is in front. At first I thought it would completely fail to see motorcycles, but even scooters are identified accurately (I don't trust it enough yet to actually allow it to follow one for extended periods of time) Does anyone here actually have a Tesla with autopilot? Or anyone testing Google's car? Other options have been a bit disappointing though. Lane-departure warning beeps for no apparent reason and is generally a mere annoyance, but to be honest a couple of dealers said it will be like that. Collision mitigation either completely ignores the thing in front or beeps a mile away. One day I'm going to completely leave it alone and see if it actually stops as claimed. When I find a car-sized balloon, or tarpaulin or something similar set up.
Ford Active City Stop[^] has saved me from rear-ending the car in front of me in a traffic jam with my 2012 Focus.