SteveS0353
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my cruise goes up by 1 mph with light tap up, up by 5 mph with harder tap up - no stopping at multiples of 5 or speed limit. That AP feature seems arbitrary and annoying, did designer or his/her manager have OCD or an irrational love of counting by 5? That sort of thing & the thought of fighting my car as it tried to drive off the road are the very reasons I opted out of getting AP (plus I'm a cheap-@$$, have a 5 minute daily commute.)
Thanks Lucy. It's actually quite common with other brands to stop at a multiple of 5mph. My BMW M3 does that. Probably because of experience with that, and my own mild OCD, I think I prefer that algorithm. I like to set the speed at something exact (well, at least what the car thinks is a round whole number on the speedo). My classic with it's +/- changes relative to the current set point irritates me a bit, and it takes a bit of finesse with the right foot to achieve the end result I like. Interestingly, the on-board user manual in my car even describes stopping at 5mph increments, even if the car does not do that.
So, your car seems to have a mix of software modules. It's using the sensors and the instrument cluster display to show you what's going on around you as you drive, yet the classic cruise control module since you don't have AP enabled. I wonder what other subtle differences there might be. And all because we have a software controlled car that can change within the constraints of the hardware.
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