Speed limit technology

BOWFER

tobygarrod939 said:

It wouldn't need to, the techs in the car.

ah, the vans you drive don't have it.
I wonder if vans that do have the tech 'know' they're vans and therefore have different speed limits....
Hmmm....

Penelopa.Pitstop

Advocado said:

I find adaptive cruise control highly frustrating as opposed to standard cruise (which I love).

When in adaptive, your driving style essentially mirrors that of the person ahead - the car brakes hard when they do.  The car can’t read the conditions ahead and lay-off the accelerator - it just hits the brakes much later.

And my VW will not overtake on the inside.  Middle lane driving is completely standard now so, after many years of driving correctly, I just can’t be bothered anymore.  So adaptive cruise means I can’t just hum along at 70mph in lane 1 because all the middle lane drivers mean the car suddenly slows to 62mph every 2 minutes.

I truly can’t see a time that self-driving cars are a thing - tech is too dumb to control a car.  

And when you have new VAG with poor system, it's even worse. Cupra switches between LHD and RHD and prevents you from overtaking. Of course you can code out undertaking prevention with OBD tools, but that's not the point. I don't know how people can trust such system with automatically adjusting speed to speed limits.