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This can mean you end up undertaking middle lane hoggers if you are not careful.
Which is legal I reckon. You’re not undertaking anyway, you’re staying in your lane, keeping up with the flow of traffic.
As someone said above, the new VWs won't let you undertake (unless you jab the accelerator) in the situation now.
It's a wonderful system, it frees up a surprising amount of brain power to focus on the rest of the road.
As someone said above, the new VWs won’t let you undertake (unless you jab the accelerator) in the situation now.
Can’t say I had that issue with mine.
Ours is a 17 plate one Drac - it'll give you a picture of a car to the right on the screen between the dials and hold you a safe distance behind it. I'd not call it an issue, it's a pretty sensible thing for it to do.
I’ve a 7.5 now but not been on a motorway with it yet, my Mk 7 allowed you to undertake. Certainly on dual carriageways when traffic on the right has been moving slower it’s not slowed down.
I just struggle to imagine the internal conversation that would lead to you engaging it
Pretty simple conversation for me - I'm on a motorway, I turn it on. I don't expect to fall asleep at the wheel or drift across for no reason - it's insurance against that ever happening. Like all insurance I hope to never have to use it.
Well. . . There's some pretty glowing reviews here!! Next car is likely to be an Octavia, I'll be upgrading to ACC if it's not standard.
Also, the anti pedestrian collision software is quite a thing to get used too to.
I tried mine out when up at the Farm and on the driveway into the Farm we have loads of chickens, and the car stopped dead from about 10mph when it detected them.. and a couple of bouncing balls from the nephews..
Interesting discussion. I didn't realise this technology was currently available. In light of the discussion about autonomous vehicles, people seem very positive about adaptive cruise control, which seems like the first step in automating driving.
How does this work in non motorway situations with non motorised traffic? Could someone be driving through town and relying on ACC to maintain distance to vehicles in front, and does that work reliably for cyclists and pedestrians?
I'm all in favour of fully autonomous vehicles, but this seems like a bit of a grey area if a driver is not paying attention.
Fiat 500's must have a version of this, if the young, blonde, female-shaped sack of shit that was 10m off of my bumper at 60mph a few days ago is anything to go by.
The blind spot warning stuff is good as well. Yes, of course you check all your mirrors etc before pulling out but at least once a year I have some soon up the outside (or inside as well in Belgium) at a point where you are not looking at the mirrors. It's just an additional backup and it's great
This can mean you end up undertaking middle lane hoggers if you are not careful.
Which is legal I reckon. You’re not undertaking anyway, you’re staying in your lane, keeping up with the flow of traffic.
It might be legal. But how confident are you that the sort of numpty who sails merrily down the middle lane won't suddenly decide to change lane without properly checking their mirrors? I don't normally risk it.
Although I will happily undertake if there is a clear empty lane between us (i.e. they're in the fast lane and i'm in the slow, with nothing in the middle). Because there's always one.
How does this work in non motorway situations with non motorised traffic? Could someone be driving through town and relying on ACC to maintain distance to vehicles in front, and does that work reliably for cyclists and pedestrians?
I’ve used mine on motorways, A roads, dual carriageways, a few times on B roads never in country lanes or in town.
I wouldn’t dispute Town driving with it, but I’ve never tried it and probably won’t either.
Mine definitely works when spotting both cyclists and pedestrians, horses and runners.
I’m not in favour of autonomous vehicles, whilst the blob holding the steering wheel maybe ineffective on the current network, I feel we’ve just about accepted that new tech needs to be tried in a real world environment rather than computer simulations and manufactured claims by the largest manufacturers.. I’m not saying it won’t be an option, but I don’t believe the decision making software is upto the level of even the simplest of intellectual drivers out there. Yes there are arguments for/against and many a thesis written on benefits thereof, yet we still have lunatics driving vehicles with it (that lady in a Tesla for instance) and for that reason until people like her are taught properly to use it we will end up in a situation where no one will accept blame in any accident/incident.
Adaptive Cruise Control and Lane Departure systems benefit and assist, yet do not remove the need for a fat blob to control them.
Certainly an interesting time we are in in the development of the technology, I’m hoping that these systems become standard on every vehicle, as I do for automatic lights/wipers.
I’m all in favour of fully autonomous vehicles, but this seems like a bit of a grey area if a driver is not paying attention.
The driver not paying attention is an issue even without these features probably more so.
The driver not paying attention is an issue even without these features
Agreed. If all ACC is good enough to reliably spot cyclists and pedestrians it could improve urban road safety. I just was not aware that people could be driving about town with this now, and I haven't seen much discussion about how well the different systems work in that situation.
I don’t believe the decision making software is up to the level of even the simplest of intellectual drivers out there
Google have already demonstrated their cars identifying and avoiding cyclists in live, public driving tests. Their car also allows cyclists to move away from junctions first, so I think they have probably already exceeded the abilities of some human drivers.