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Simon said:
My M3 just accelerates hard when u click it up 5mph.
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Yup my old 147 GTA did that, I went to set cruise when I spotted some Police up the road in a 30 to make sure I did not speed, accidently did resume which was set at 75 :eek: resulted in my first speeding ticket as it was pretty quick off the mark, Doh :D

Volvo is smooth probably very similar to Polestar.
 
MrRockliffe said:
Personally have found it a pain whichever car I’ve used it on, inc EVs.


ID.7 and my mums Q4 both have issues with cars on slip roads, particularly bad on the A3 as they’re short and people slow down quickly and suddenly. I find that this causes the car to panic at times and brake hard.


Or, if somebody moves out of the way in front, it can be a bit aggressive accelerating.



I just use the limiter now.
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Yeh not sure cruise control is for slip roads. The system will know when someone is in a different lane. So not really sure the issue. If the cruise control is braking hard than the driver has missed something in my experience
 
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Simon said:
Yeh not sure cruise control is for slip roads. The system will know when someone is in a different lane. So not really sure the issue. If the cruise control is braking hard than the driver has missed something in my experience
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Nothing missed, just the car in front moving onto the slip road, braking and the car thinking it’s still in the lane, possibly due to the lines being faded.


Either way, it takes the control away from me and I don’t have faith it works.


I now turn off every safety system in the car whenever I get in it
 
Yeh I guess it is cruise control rather than auto pilot to be fair. Head up display on the other MEB lets you see that happening ( not seeing the white lines). But everyone else complains the lane assist is too annoying as it sees road seams as white lines so can’t win

Still stand by a driver needing to understand the systems and not rely on them to drive the car though. If other cars do cause issue in the slip road repeatably then gentle acceleration to override the cruise. It will kick back in when you lift off. Or just move into middle lane.
 
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I do find the slip road thing annoying. As pointed out, if it is a short slip road and the other car brakes heavily it can cause a heavy unwarranted deceleration. On the whole I find ACC handy so I use it pretty much all the time and you soon learn the limitations which are normally solved with a quick pause then resume.
 
Someone on another forum pointed out the Puma Gen-E at some dealers have already been heavily discounted even before it has hit the showrooms. Selling them at £23,697.85 plus free charger (ohme), 5 years servicing/breakdown cover and £217 electricity credit with Octopus. Doesn't bode well for Ford
 
Simon said:
Yeh not sure cruise control is for slip roads. The system will know when someone is in a different lane. So not really sure the issue. If the cruise control is braking hard than the driver has missed something in my experience
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Personally never use cruise control unless settled in for a long motorway run, etc. not a big fan of it actually but at the same time wish more people would use it - far too many dawdle along drifting below the speed limit then wake up when you've committed to passing them and speed up!
 
VaderDSL said:
Someone on another forum pointed out the Puma Gen-E at some dealers have already been heavily discounted even before it has hit the showrooms. Selling them at £23,697.85 plus free charger (ohme), 5 years servicing/breakdown cover and £217 electricity credit with Octopus. Doesn't bode well for Ford
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I'm not at all surprised, it just doesn't stack up to the competition.

You can get ID.3's (52kwh) for £23k and MG4's 51kwh for under £19k and the 64kwh version for £23k. Sat at a higher price point you have the Kia EV3 which just blows it away. 58kwh for £32k and 81kwh for £34k - currently with limited discounts for now with only £1k - £2k off RRP.

MGS5 also start at £26k for 49kwh and £29k for the fully loaded 64kwh version.
 
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Rroff said:
Personally never use cruise control unless settled in for a long motorway run, etc. not a big fan of it actually but at the same time wish more people would use it - far too many dawdle along drifting below the speed limit then wake up when you've committed to passing them and speed up!
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I get far too comfortable with the adaptive cruise and let the car sort itself out - have to remember on the motorway that the other half’s car only has normal cruise…
 
puma-e its the PCP, not rrp cost of ownership that counts (+insurance/lux tax liability),like if the manufacturer is guaranteeing the residual value to lease company...
puma-e at £350/8K/36 month, versus Alpha junior at £550, seem to be people on sub £400/Model3's too;

still haven't seen a clear explanation on where batteries are on the puma-e vs ice variant and where you loose the space, the 'well' type boot on the puma-e looks a bit marmite
 
Kona radar cruise control is the only one I've used so can't compare. It does fairly gentle acceleration, maybe too slow if anything. When it's enabled, breaking manually will cause it to pause and accelerate will enable at the speed the accelerator is released. Distance has 4 modes: too far, too close x3 ;) but I like to keep my distance generally and those distances narrow depending on speed. It slows to a complete stop and will carry on when traffic is moving, although depending on traffic speed this might open up too much of gap and I generally turn it off at that point. It's only tried to kill me a few times :) flat bed truck and going around a bend up a hill on the A30, both things are mentioned in the manual!
 
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Auto Express asked Chinese giant, BYD, whether it would like to refute allegations that its cars could house spyware, but the manufacturer declined to comment.

Doesn't look great... although of course any modern car computer could theoretically house spyware...
 
Did an experiment with my Polestar this week! It’s a 2022 long range single motors with the 78kwh pack.

My daily commute is pretty much 30 miles each way along the A40 from Cheltenham toward Oxford, and depending on the weather uses roughly 25% of the battery. In deepest winter this went up to about 30%, but as the weather has improved I wanted to see if I could do all 4 days on the one charge this week, starting at 100% on Monday morning.

As it turns out I was using the heating on low in the mornings, but in the afternoons it’s been warm enough to turn it off fully and just use the A/C. I’ve just driven at the speed limit, or at whatever speed the traffic is doing.

The result? Got back today having done exactly 240 miles with 6% battery left and 17 miles range. I live at the bottom of a massive hill (currently being dug out for a dual carriageway) and I started at the top with 5%, so that worked out well!
 
Robbo said:
Auto Express asked Chinese giant, BYD, whether it would like to refute allegations that its cars could house spyware, but the manufacturer declined to comment.

Doesn't look great... although of course any modern car computer could theoretically house spyware...
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Quite a lot of electronics with connections to China like this don't necessarily have active spyware but have the ability for it to be installed i.e. a not uncommon one is a dodgy NTP implementation which doesn't appear suspect at first glance and has a reason to regularly connect to a remote server for time synchronisation - but has vulnerabilities which can be used to stuff commands into the OS and act as a data stream if desired.
 
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