the road turned the car went straight. pretty basic error. back to the drawing board. condolences to the families of the guinea pigs.
i dont even like cruise control.
I bought a car recently that has all the collision avoidance, lane change, blah blah blah, and I bloody hate it.
Sure, you can turn most of it off, but...it is only for that driving session. Next time you start up the car, it all comes back on again.
I particularly dislike the collision avoidance. I usually keep good distance, but sometimes...such as when the car in front of you taking a right or left turn (especially a right turn, and they just poke and poke and poke, so you go around them to the left) the damned thing jacks on the brakes.
I have given up, and just press the accelerator through it while it is jamming on the brakes.
There is one single feature I do like though-and that is the adaptive cruise control. I like cruise control, but rarely used it because traffic is often too congested on the highway and it is a pain because you end up having to manually adjust it up and down, which defeats the purpose.
With the adaptive, you set your speed at about 5-10 above the ambient speed, and just get behind someone who is going closer to the speed you like, adjust how far back you want to be, and it works great.
I never take my eyes off the road or car in front of my, and my foot is always poised near the brake, but on long journeys in congested traffic, it works great.
But having a car drive while you read a book or sleep...insanity. Only a blithering idiot would do that.
“i dont even like cruise control.”
I love my 12 year old truck so I just keep driving it. Bought the wife a new Honda SUV, and the blasted cruise control won’t let you get with in 15 car lengths of cars ahead. If someone passes me and pulls into my lane, it slows the car down even though the other car is pulling away.
Had to turn the lane mitigation thing off too, we drive too many narrow windy roads and it likes to shake the wheel if you get too close to the stripes in the middle or the edge. I always fade to the right when an oncoming vehicle is about to pass, which sets it off.
You’re smart. Cruise control has killed lots of people. I never use it!
I use The term “Car yoga”
This is for people like myself who have to drive long hours every day in and out of traffic or on highways
I developed this after having a sharp pain in my right leg that I developed a few decades ago and I realized it was from hitting the gas and the break and the gas and the break over and over in traffic
The first theory of car yoga is: use neutral!
When you’re at a stoplight when you’re at a traffic light when you’re in traffic that stop and start Start using neutral all the time
By using neutral you can have no hands on the wheel or on any pedals and the car will just sit there motionless
Using neutral is the number one aspect to Car yoga
Number two
Cruise control
If you’re on the highway going 60 miles an hour and there’s no reasonable traffic to be expected - always use cruise control
You can log out and end of cruise control repeatedly add a few miles per hour up or down it’s very easy
Again then you can drive hundreds of miles and not have to touch any pedals at all
Now I’m completely and utterly opposed to electric vehicles and self driving cars
A third purely aesthetic aspect of car yoga is when you’re crossing very scenic places such as bridges put it in a low mile per hour both hands on the wheel and look around at the beautiful scenery
Car yoga
I love cruise control on my motorcycle. Nothing sucks more than holding the throttle with your hand, mile after mile after mile.