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Originally Posted by arm79
That adaptive cruise control **** needs to be banned. Its friggin dangerous.
In the rental Hybrid Corolla we had driving back from Margaret River to Perth I had cruise set to 110km/h. Up ahead someone pulled onto the highway from a side road (a poorish decision on their part). There was no danger of a collision, I had plenty of time to do a headcheck and merge into the next lane without worry as I've done a million times before.
But this ****in car... As I was halfway across the centre line, 100 to 150m from the car, the stupid ****in thing slammed on the brakes, emergency stop style. Dropped from 110 to 60 very quickly. Almost caused a pile up behind me.
I had to swerve back into the lane I came from because the poor L-plater behind me swerved into the lane that I was moving into to avoid me.
If I had some pebbles in my jocks then I'm sure this L-plater had some runs down his leg.
I'm totally against driver aids of this type. Of any type these days really. Anything after ABS and DSC is completely questionable. All they do is desensitise drivers and make them lazy. Drivers rely on them too much and ignore the task of driving safely.
"Why did you merge into me you idiot, I was right there you should have seen me" Said the poor crash victim. "Oh, my lane change warning didnt tell me there was a car there so I went" said the lazy mofo. |
Yep we were on the same trip in the same car - its absolutely ****e. Its also gutless AF and its like driving a park bench that handles like an inflatable jumping castle in cyclone Tracy.
Last night, going up the Crown Casino multilevel car park, up the ramp with the speed humps, it was a touch wet as it was raining.
Mates new Volvo, we're doing 5km/h cause speed humps, the moment the car detects the slightest amount of wheel spin happening as it went up and over the speed hump, it instantly cuts the throttle for about 5 seconds while the TCS light flashes so every time we go over the speed hump, the car just stops responding to all driver inputs on the throttle
So over the speed hump, then sit there for 5 seconds, then move off, then over the next speed hump, sit there for 5 seconds, then move off again
AEB can **** off I reckon, thats why the manual Subaru WRX is good because its a new car without that BS, it only has normal cruise control and gauges which have a real needle and numbers on them - perfect.