Cruse Control

Stageshoot

+1 for Adaptive cruise control. Hated Standard Cruise in the UK but adaptive is a different beast. Just bought a Volvo V40, with the full Adaptive kit, and it toodles up and down the M1 all day never needing to touch brake or accelerator. Slows behind traffic and follows them, as you indicate to overtake it accelerates and if fast traffic approachs in the adjacent lane the wing mirrors flash orange warning whats not to like and 70+mpg is a dream

Would recommend the adaptive to anyone who drives distance each day.

And the Laser Equipment on the front grill makes the Audi Boys brake as it looks like an Old Bill Unmarked light!!

NBLondon

Stageshoot wrote: »

as you indicate to overtake it accelerates

I hope to {Deity of Choice} it waits until you have actually changed lanes before it accelerates!


Given that on a medium busy motorway or DC, you can be continually moving from 62 to 66 to 69 around other traffic - that would be a major advantage. Classic situation I see is I'm travelling in Lane 2 at 69 on CC about to pass a line of slower traffic when the mini-SUV at the end of the line lurches out in front of me at 59.5 to pass the HGV's doing 56 but cannot actually accelerate to more than 63 meaning I have to brake (cutting out the CC). (Or swing into Lane 3 if it exists and doesn't contain a BMW bearing down).

Stageshoot

NBLondon wrote: »

I hope to {Deity of Choice} it waits until you have actually changed lanes before it accelerates!.

No as you indicate and move the steering wheel to change lanes it senses the movement and accelerates. Giving you the ummph to overtake rather than pulling into the outer lane and then thinking about accelerating

Of course it also has the Laser/LiDAR and Radar Crash Aviodance system so if you did not pull out to go around the vehicle in front its more than capable and willing to take evasive braking action itself along with alarm bells and a string of RED LEDs flashing across the HUD....

Having already been a Unwitting crash test dummy of the evasive braking system when approaching the entrance to my works car park at 30mph (The barrier raises quicky normally) on this day the barrier stalled half way up, Before I could clench my buttocks the car had seen it and decided it was a threat, it stood on its nose to complete an emergency stop before my foot could hit the pedal... I think it would have been brown trousers for anyone tailgating me into the car park that day..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJZfYnZfGuM

Iceweasel

NBLondon wrote: »

I hope to {Deity of Choice} it waits until you have actually changed lanes before it accelerates!


Given that on a medium busy motorway or DC, you can be continually moving from 62 to 66 to 69 around other traffic - that would be a major advantage. Classic situation I see is I'm travelling in Lane 2 at 69 on CC about to pass a line of slower traffic when the mini-SUV at the end of the line lurches out in front of me at 59.5 to pass the HGV's doing 56 but cannot actually accelerate to more than 63 meaning I have to brake (cutting out the CC). (Or swing into Lane 3 if it exists and doesn't contain a BMW bearing down).

If you're in lane 2 at 69mph then I'll be cruising past you at a genuine 70mph - might take a while though.

NBLondon

Not on the M2 in Kent you won't... There isn't a Lane 3. Given the volume of traffic during the day I'm astounded it hasn't been widened yet and it's a prime place for the scenario I just described viz. chain of HGV doing 56 on a limiter in Lane 1 with some people wanting to do 60 coming up behind them while Lane 2 is busy with people already overtaking at near 70 (and the odd white van trying to do 80).


However, after about 9pm, it's possible to be comfortably in Lane 1 with the CC at 70 and not have to touch it in 40+ miles.