I drove 70 miles yesterday early afternoon very heavy (often very slow 2+ hr to do 1-1/2 hr predicted) traffic and very mixed weather. This was 3 motorways. Didn’t use autosteer at all but maybe 30% of journey on TACC.
Coming back in the dark, 1:20 straight through, 99% on TACC. Very light traffic 50% of the trip. Other half driving.
I thought car did an excellent job. No phantom braking (not that it’s been a big problem for me). Some subtle reluctance to pass a couple of cars but not what I would call braking - traffic in all lanes was doing similar speed so more a light lift off. I guess if we were trying to do 80 and passing a lane doing 50 if might have been different. A couple of times not convinced it was ‘reading the traffic ahead’ perhaps as well as it could resulting in a few braking harder for car in front slowing than I would have needed to.
Otherwise a very good TACC drive. I didn’t use autosteer/NoA on outward journey as traffic so heavy.
Only real criticism (other than too insensitive wipers) is that follow distance at night seems closer than in day time, uncomfortably close at times. But this seems to be a common trait since introduction of vision/loss of radar.
The other (in this case self inflicted) issue is that we have got so use to sat nav wanting to take us up inappropriate roads for sake of on paper saving 2 minutes that we ignore weird routing, especially when local so just starting drive and route plan hasn’t changed. But yesterday’s weird local route would have saved us 20 minute traffic queue. I should have realised when it didn’t want to take us up the normal short cut full of speed bumps but take us a different weird route - instead I ignored and did normal 2 sides round a triangle on normally fast roads straight into a long traffic jam on dual carriageway…
tl;dr usual hugely different experience than what some others experience. Both drives follow distance of 7.
[edit - I think someone has hacked my account