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Cruise Control UsageViews : 10624 Replies : 79Users Viewing This Thread : |
View Poll Results: When do you use cruise control? | |||
In 30mph zones | 14 | 5.22% | |
In 40mph zones | 20 | 7.46% | |
In 50 mph zones | 39 | 14.55% | |
Only on motorways | 98 | 36.57% | |
In all zones including motorways | 136 | 50.75% | |
I don't use cruise control | 23 | 8.58% | |
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Aug 14th, 2017, 11:49 | #61 |
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In the truck I normally use a very light dab on the brake pedal to turn off the cruise control, just enough to flash the lights turns it off and also wakes up the driver behind that you're going to be slowing down, he might also have cruise control on and without a warning he'll suddenly find himself catching you up.
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Aug 15th, 2017, 08:15 | #62 |
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Do not know why but I have never used CC on any of the vehicles I have owned It could be my age at 75 and lacking confidence. I suppose I will have to give it a go. I doubt it anyone else out there will admit to not using CC.
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Sep 9th, 2017, 16:50 | #63 |
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From the poll results showing thus far it would seem that just under 10% of us don't use it.This has in a way surprised me as although I'm one of those who don't use it I really thought I'd be in a greater minority[sounds like a contradiction in terms I know]than seems to be the case.
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Oct 11th, 2017, 16:32 | #66 |
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I really like cruise, its great if you cover a lot of miles. One of the conditions for my new car was it must have cruise!
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Oct 11th, 2017, 19:21 | #67 |
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Twice recently I have passed mobile speed camera vans at borderline speed on local roads and spent two weeks worrying that a speeding ticket will be in the post. Thankfully...not! But it's been a salutary lesson and I now drive almost exclusively on the speed limiter/cruise control buttons.
It's so easy to top 30 mph in modern cars (and me in a BMW now!! !)...bad luck if a police van is round the corner (My neighbour is cursing two tickets in two months!) So at the beginning of EVERY journey, I flick the limiter button to 31 mph and then adjust speed upwards accordingly. I switch to the equivalent cruise control speed on appropriate stretches. It's a totally new way of driving for me, but it's working! I wish car makers would make this an optional default setting so that I don't have to think about it on start-up. Just think, if everyone did this, no-one would EVER get a speeding fine again. l
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Oct 12th, 2017, 08:40 | #69 |
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Why? Its only a button under your thumb. You can flick it off as quickly as you switch off cc...
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May 26th, 2018, 08:18 | #70 |
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My first car with (working) cruise control was 20 years ago, a 1989 Jag Sovereign 3.6 and i've been using it ever since when i've had cars that have it.
These days i wouldn't voluntarily be without it, especially with all the average speed cameras that are sprouting along dual carriageways and motorways, particularly the A14 past Cambridge, as mentioned by at least one other on here. Sadly my current 760GLE doesn't have cruise control - yet! It will do though, i plan on fitting one of these : https://www.conrad-electronic.co.uk/...ntroller-Waeco As to speedo accuracy, i have an app called "Speedy" on my phone and it's every bit as accurate as the speedo contained in a sat-nav i had some years back with the proviso (as with almost any GPS based speedo) that you need to be on level ground. It's all down to triangulation, if you're driving up or down a hill then you're traveling on the hypotenuse of the triangle, the sat-nav only measures the distance traveled along the base of the triangle against time to calculate speed. I first noticed this some 10-12 years ago, using the sat-nav with the speed displayed, going down a hill the speed on the sat-nav dropped to just under 80 but the OE speedo showed i was over 90 - on level tarmac i had been doing 80-85 and speed increased downhill. There are some sat-navs, apps that take elevation into account but they need to be that much more sophisticated that it's not always possible to get accurate results up/down hills even with those.
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