First outing with ACC

[peterdoherty]

One thing to watch out for is stealth vehicles - ones with sharp angled rear ends with few rounded corners - mine had trouble spotting the back end of an empty car transporter and accelerated towards it.. I also reckon a Lamborghini aventador might evade the radar!

Ah you must have the new version of ACC - saves fuel by hitching a ride on the nearest transporter 

[p3asa]

Its the first time I've ever felt I wanted DSG.
I think it would be fantastic in slow moving traffic on a motorway.  I'll need to try and persuade my Mrs to get it for her next car.

I followed my daughter recently going from Glasgow to Drimsynie and for those that don't know those roads they are the twistiest ever. I was using the ACC and it was able to follow her round the bends without any issue. What I was more impressed with was going round left hand bends. Loads of times I had trucks literally straight in front of me going round the bend yet the ACC continued to follow my daughter.

Very impressive.

[dubber36]

A mate of mine works in R&D for Honda. He was telling me about the lane guidance system in the CRV. It works by monitoring the white lines on the road and if is scenes that you have crossed them without making any deliberate steering input, it will take over steering control for a second or two whilst beeping at you to wake you up. The electric steering knows whether you you have steered the car by twirling the wheel, or if the car has veered on its own.

When they were out on the M4 testing, they changed the short time that the car takes over, to indefinite. The car was an automatic and with the adaptive cruise control set, it would totally drive itself for mile after mile, albeit sticking to one lane.

[p3asa]

I'm sure the Mk7 has this as an option in "Lane assist" but it wasn't an option on the GTI/D when I ordered. But believe it might be now.

[monkeytennis]

Previous thread with lots of tips here:

http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=264501.msg2431375#msg2431375

My comments:

Once something has moved out of the way the car can be slow to pick up the pace so sometimes I end up putting my foot down. When coming up behind another vehicle the car can sometimes be slow to brake and then brake hard, I tend to counter this be reading ahead and reducing the set speed with the +/- 5mph control. I've pretty much driven about 80 miles solid on the same motorway in traffic just by using my left thumb.

One problem I have found is the car can be slow to pick up another car moving in from the inside lane if they move to overtake, the other car can get more than a wheel's width across to my lane before the ACC cuts in and slams on the anchors. For distance I used to have this as the medium setting but changed to near (you can change the default in the car settings menu) as it left too much gap and I'd have things up my rear thinking I wasn't going to keep up with the vehicle in front, however this is too close in rain. Also people tend to lane hog and if you're a good distance behind (despite adopting the 2 second rule) they can be content just to sit there blocking the lane because they don't think you'll pass them.

Overall I love ACC, it's one of the best developments I've seen in the last 10 years in car technology, despite the odd flaw I continue to marvel at it on every motorway journey.

[Bahnstormer]

Hi,It,s worth remembering when using ACC that it's possible to adjust the gap the system leaves between the car in front by using the central button set within the cruise control switch. ACCOUNT is great you don't realise how Google it is especially with DSG until you drive another car without it. All Golf's from SE spec up have it as standard, cheers.

[mjh_056]

Notice a few still mentioning the pick up and it was a real issue for me but putting in individual and setting ACC to sport does improve pck up markedly. Set it also to the shortest distance which is still in fact quite a decent distance on the road itself.

The only time ACC struggles when get into a really busy stretch and cars are weaving into tight spaces and you are best just driving the car as ACC cannot really cope.

1. Average speed contra flow you can keep a nice steady and legal speed,
2. slow moving M25 traffic you just let the ACC and DSG do the work though you do have to give a nudge of the accelerator when become stationary
3. Stretched out cruising on Motorway is when ACC really comes into its own

Quite used to it now and under right conditions does make life easier but it is just an aid and that if pushed to pay for it I would not for the ACC part but think VW have made the right choice making it standard for the front assist aspect alone.

[Rossc0]

It has made me such a lazy DSG driver. 

[AlanH]

Notice a few still mentioning the pick up and it was a real issue for me but putting in individual and setting ACC to sport does improve pck up markedly. Set it also to the shortest distance which is still in fact quite a decent distance on the road itself.

Good call - I'm going to try this tomorrow.