Adaptive cruise...

This is Foxy’s favourite. Standard cruise I never use on my Golf. Drove a Passat with the active system and it seemed pretty good, especially in those pesky 50mph motorway sections (people aren’t all at exactly the same speeds).
 
I’ve just gone from a car that had cruise control to one with adaptive, huge step up and I definitely wouldn’t want go go back!

I can change the distance it leaves between the car in front and if I drop it down to no distance it disengages the adaptive part and just becomes cruise control.

It also seems to stay enabled if you come to a near standstill (and don’t touch the brake pedal) which I didn’t think it would do. Happened on a motorway when a caravan had overturned so traffic backed up as 2 lanes were blocked.
 
had it in my old golf r estate as standard. was very good what I found strange was I did not have lane keep assist as standard. I thought the two should come together as standard
 
Uther said:
My new car has it, I've only ever had normal cruise control before, so it's a bit different!
Anyone use it a lot or is it in the 'gimmick' pile?
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Using CC in England now is a bit of a misnomer, you cannot cruise anymore with the useless drivers everywhere.

Adaptive cruise might or might not help things, it depends how much underwear you have in the glovebox
 
I find it a pain on the motorway unless I’m cruising behind a lorry, which is almost never.
It leaves a safe gal, which unfortunately is almost always filled with by a numpty.

However, it’s perfect for stop-start traffic. Totally zoned out on my way home from work yesterday listening to the radio and I didn’t have to think about much else. Coupled with an auto box (or electric in my current commuting hack), I wouldn’t consider anything else.
 
mjt said:
I find it a pain on the motorway unless I’m cruising behind a lorry, which is almost never.
It leaves a safe gal, which unfortunately is almost always filled with by a numpty.

However, it’s perfect for stop-start traffic. Totally zoned out on my way home from work yesterday listening to the radio and I didn’t have to think about much else. Coupled with an auto box (or electric in my current commuting hack), I wouldn’t consider anything else.
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Yes people squeezing in the gap is annoying. As well as people who overtake and pull back in once they're 2 inches clear of your bumper and it slams on the brakes. But I've gotten used to how it works and a touch of the throttle pedal keeps it off the brakes.
 
I’ve never driven a car with adaptive cruise. Current car has standard cruise which we rarely use. I recently did a 1300 mile round trip and used it virtually the time. Kent to Scotland in the early hours meant very little adjustment but on the way back, during more social hours meant small adjustments here and there via steering wheel.

Would love to try adaptive at some point, although I think I’d find it very weird initially!
 
Takes a huge amount of effort out of driving, I particularly like it in slower traffic and near queuing traffic on the motorway.

The Defender I took to Cornwall had standard cruise and I missed adaptive for those moments where the car barrels up to traffic rather than adjusting.

Like regularly cruise I tend to find it not great for fuel economy.
 
Read somewhere gov are considering hands free lane legislation for 2021! Would be great. Even if every car in a lane is just using TACC at the least, it would be a rewarding experience I bet.
 
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had adaptive cruise on a hire car over in Florida a couple of years back, once you learn to trust how it works it's excellent, would react quicker and smoother than I could and made the driving experience much more enjoyable.
 
Ranger had adaptive cruise loved it
Discovery has it and I love it

Use it for most of my daily driving regardless of speed. The only inappropriate roads are single lane nsl back roads.

I thought the ford was good, the Land rover is amazing. Wouldn’t buy another car without it.
 
I use it all the time, motorways, heavy traffic and best through variable speed limits as you just set the speed and forget about it.
 
Have this in the Kia Niro PHEV, it's great - as some of the posts above can set the distance between the car in front so makes motorway driving an absolute doddle.

It's good when there is a jam as well, just set the speed higher than the what the jam is moving at and the car will follow and even stop itself as the car in front comes to a halt, then with a press of a button as the car in front moves off the car will start to follow the leading vehicle again.
 
OUr X3 has the lot. Can almost drive without touching the wheel. Apart from it shouts at you if you've not touched it in a while...

I had it all turned on following a car down a main road. The car in front moved out to pass a parked car and our X3 followed it out and back in. So its not just looking at the road it also looks at the vehicle in front.

The only downside is the hitting of the brakes too early. However a poster above has hinted that a further distance will help with that.

Side note. It worked flawlessly over on the continent, But then the standard of driving appears to be much much better over there too
 
As of yet are there any standards for the effectiveness of these systems, it's bit like the headlight effectiveness game.
say, heavy rain, or spotting small profile vehicles (cycles/bikes), or, even, resuscitating the infamous moose test,
even with the new uk auto steering proposal, but, maybe that was just for motorways, I don't remember seeing any standards.

case in point - the video put up a while back of the guy who survived (mondeo?) after hitting a stationary car in motorway fast lane, after rounding a bend.
 
They have improved tremendously over the years. My new 3 series has it and it will bring the car to a stop in a queue and pull away with no input from me in a queue which is great. It even uses the camera to se when to start the engine as the car in front pulls away if the stop/start has activated. Works well and brakes and adjusts speed more gently than previous generations. The minimum gap is still too big for the M25 though!!!!
 
I retro fitted it to my Mondeo and it's great - I hardly ever used normal cruise but I use this all the time. I think from now on every car I get will have to have adaptive cruise (my Westfiled excepted obvs).
 
The problem with adaptive cruise control I find is other people - as mentioned above let it leave a nice safe gap and some utter idiot will slot into it and I get people obviously using it (along with other assists I assume) to sit way to close behind me on long dual carriageway stretches and let the adaptive cruise control do the work - generally it can react in time to avoid a collision but still it is just lazy and idiotic - way too often I see them fiddling with their makeup, etc. which is amusing if they haven't seen situations coming which require a sudden speed change.

Overall I'm a bit old school and prefer to drive without it unless I'm doing long distances when the roads are quiet where it is very nice to have - sadly my pickup lacks adaptive though just plain cruise control or speed limiter.
 
One of my cars has it, the other doesn't. Much better with. On cars without I'm always fiddling with the speed on steering wheel to match traffic. Makes using cruise at all kinda pointless!
 
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