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#1741
Lexus Champion
What I don't like about adaptive cruise is that it constantly leaves a gap in front of you and it causes people to pass you on the right and fill that gap, which keeps putting you more and more behind. It also doesn't pressure drivers to move right and let you go by, so you'll all of a sudden find yourself going 65 when you're set to 80.
#1742
Lexus Fanatic
Thread Starter
So I usually set the following distance at the 3 or 4 setting, which does leave plenty of space for someone to scoot in front of me. But in traffic, without this feature, I wouldn't be using the CC at all. On a long drive, I definitely notice less fatigue using adaptive CC
#1744
Lexus Fanatic
What I don't like about adaptive cruise is that it constantly leaves a gap in front of you and it causes people to pass you on the right and fill that gap, which keeps putting you more and more behind. It also doesn't pressure drivers to move right and let you go by, so you'll all of a sudden find yourself going 65 when you're set to 80.
Adaptive or not, cruise-control is just about hopeless in the D.C. area. I rarely use the one in my Encore GX (which does have the adjustable adaptive feature), except occasionally on Sunday morning when traffic is lighter. There is simply too much traffic, too little available road-space for the traffic, and, if it DOES happen to leave a space, some joker will surely pull into it within the next ten seconds LOL.
#1745
Lexus Fanatic
Thread Starter
Adaptive or not, cruise-control is just about hopeless in the D.C. area. I rarely use the one in my Encore GX (which does have the adjustable adaptive feature), except occasionally on Sunday morning when traffic is lighter. There is simply too much traffic, too little available road-space for the traffic, and, if it DOES happen to leave a space, some joker will surely pull into it within the next ten seconds LOL.
#1746
Lead Lap
One thing I found interesting with Mercedes is that my AMG vehicles are much more aggressive about keeping the gap in front of me small than the regular Mercedes I have driven. This ends up being a less smooth experience for passengers and quite frankly I’ve been startled about how quickly they will accelerate if someone changes out of my lane in front of me. I don’t drive them in comfort mode though which may contributing to this.
#1747
Lexus Fanatic
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One thing I found interesting with Mercedes is that my AMG vehicles are much more aggressive about keeping the gap in front of me small than the regular Mercedes I have driven. This ends up being a less smooth experience for passengers and quite frankly I’ve been startled about how quickly they will accelerate if someone changes out of my lane in front of me. I don’t drive them in comfort mode though which may contributing to this.
#1749
Lexus Fanatic
Thread Starter
You have systems like Supercruise that will drive the car without input from the driver on a highway too. Distronic will largely drive the car but since it doesn't use GPS mapping like something like SuperCruise does you still have to hold onto the wheel.
#1750
Lexus Fanatic
.....Until some joker pulls right into the gap in front of you, and then finds some reason to jam on his or her brakes, and your car, right behind, can't stop in time, even with ABS. In most instances, police hold a driver who rear-ends someone in front of them at fault, even in circumstances like that. That's why the guy who rear-ended your previous Lexus LS got charged instead of you.
#1751
Lexus Champion
Speaking of that, the Lexrolla rental I have has auto headlights, auto high beams, auto hold (electric parking brake), automatic climate control, plus all the LKA and other new stuff. For a cheap car it’s loaded with new tech.
#1753
Lexus Fanatic
Thread Starter
.....Until some joker pulls right into the gap in front of you, and then finds some reason to jam on his or her brakes, and your car, right behind, can't stop in time, even with ABS. In most instances, police hold a driver who rear-ends someone in front of them at fault, even in circumstances like that. That's why the guy who rear-ended your previous Lexus LS got charged instead of you.
Of course you still pay attention. At low speeds like that it doesn’t keep a large gap, it maintains the same gap I would. The car will react quicker and slam on the brakes than I would.
#1754
Lexus Fanatic
Thread Starter
I’m at the car wash getting the Pacifica mini-detailed (what a disaster it always is) and there’s a new QX60 in front of me, it’s really sharp. I will have to give one of those a serious look