driving slow : your views ?

UsernameAlreadyExists

Cornucopia wrote: »

You can't possibly believe this.

I have driven multiple cars with CC and multiple without. It surprises me every time how CC feels like it accelerates up a hill, and slows down to descend. It just doesn't feel right.


You yourself have already commented to this effect.

Cornucopia

UsernameAlreadyExists wrote: »

I have driven multiple cars with CC and multiple without. It surprises me every time how CC feels like it accelerates up a hill, and slows down to descend. It just doesn't feel right.

And that's a problem because....?

You yourself have already commented to this effect.

Not quite.

UsernameAlreadyExists

Cornucopia wrote: »

When you drive on CC a lot, you really start to notice how inconsistent other drivers' speed can be. Hills, particularly, where they let their speed fade on the way up, and then let the vehicle charge down the other side.

Exactly quite.

Cornucopia

UsernameAlreadyExists wrote: »

Exactly quite.

Which in the context of the Highway Code comments on Motorway speed is A BAD THING.

TBH, you're coming across as a bit of a Luddite. (No offence).

UsernameAlreadyExists

... and you are coming across as some kind of self proclaimed deity that has the answer to all questions. You are faultless.

You have a shiny new toy, it's modern, it MUST therefore be correct, even though it postdates the guidelines you are quoting by a number of years. There you declare that everyone is wrong. Ha Ha, they can't even drive up a hill at a constant speed. Amateurs.



Enjoy adjusting your speed when everyone else slows down

Cornucopia

UsernameAlreadyExists wrote: »

... and you are coming across as some kind of self proclaimed deity that has the answer to all questions. You are faultless.

I just happen to be amongst the group of internet posters who know what they are talking about. Sometimes it feels like a small group.

You have a shiny new toy, it's modern, it MUST therefore be correct, even though it postdates the guidelines you are quoting by a number of years.

No idea when they last updated the HC, but my car is 5 years old. And in any case, there is absolutely no reason why something new cannot be wholly compatible with "old" rules - that's how it usually works.

There you declare that everyone is wrong. Ha Ha, they can't even drive up a hill at a constant speed. Amateurs.

I don't make the rules. The people that are wrong are wrong. Those that are right are right. Again, that's how it usually works.

Enjoy adjusting your speed when everyone else slows down

I just overtake them. And then politely let them overtake me two minutes later.

brat

Cornucopia wrote: »

Depends on the nature of the hazard. If it is that I am closing on the vehicle in front with no opportunity to overtake, then obviously a quick press of the CC controls will either turn it off, or reduce the speed. If the hazard is a little light rain, then maybe wait to see if it will get heavier. Either way, I don't see the reaction with CC being any different to without it.



It's not wrong. You are simply characterising it that way to suit your personal POV.

The reality is that keeping a stable speed whilst the driving conditions remain favourable is best practice. Obviously that applies most readily to motorway driving, and obviously it's possible to do it whether you have/use CC or not.

edit: As the Highway Code says (of motorway driving) ...


http://www.gov.uk/motorways-253-to-273/on-the-motorway-260-to-263

What tends to happen with cruise control is that those who use it push up on those ahead whose speed naturally reduces by 1/2/3 mph when climbing a hill, or moving onto a piece of road that has a few more bends, or come from a quiet area of motorway into a more significant platoon of traffic ahead. You'll recognise him from your rear mirror, the one who doesn't want to release his cc speed because he believes he is right in maintaining the steady speed.

A steady speed does not mean an unchanging speed. It must change as conditions dictate. Early slight reduction of speed without application of brakes in a platoon situation can help the flow speed of traffic within that platoon. Dabbing of brakes, as can happen with CC can cause platoon speeds to reduce significantly.

RichardD1970

UsernameAlreadyExists wrote: »

You have a shiny new toy, it's modern,

Hardly, modern cruise control was invented in 1948.

Early forms using centrifugal governors were used as early as 1900.

Iceweasel

It's quite obvious that there are lots of people commenting on Cruise Control who have no idea of how CC can be used properly.

But never mind - on we go towards the goal of 1000 posts.

Cornucopia

brat wrote: »

What tends to happen with cruise control...

You can recognise bad or selfish driving styles amongst all drivers. (TBH, I've been driving with CC for 15-odd years, and I cannot recognise other CC users in traffic, so I doubt that anyone else can). In particular, anyone has the potential to fill the rear-view mirror of the vehicle in front with their car, I certainly don't see that behaviour being limited to those with CC.

As I said when I introduced CC to the discussion, I think it has the potential to improve driving style because it reduces the link between the right foot and possession of the road space.

But perhaps I have naturally developed a more co-operative driving style due to increasing years and exposure to French driving, and it's nothing to do with CC at all?