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Offline andrewparker

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Re: In prasie of the Adaptive Cruise Control
« Reply #10 on: 07 October 2015, 19:18 »
Quote from: Sootchucker on 07 October 2015, 08:01
Bit of a strange title I know...

You're not wrong there!
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Offline J400uk

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Re: In prasie of the Adaptive Cruise Control
« Reply #11 on: 07 October 2015, 19:26 »
I love the adaptive cruise control and it was a big selling for me on the Mk7 Golf over an Audi A3 or BMW 1-series. I do a 95 mile round trip to work daily on the M25/ M4 and it makes the journey significantly more relaxed having the adaptive cruise. Works especially well with the DSG since it can bring the car to a full stop if needed.

Makes you laugh that bigger and more expensive executive cars don't get this standard, but all Golfs apart from the S do!
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Re: In prasie of the Adaptive Cruise Control
« Reply #12 on: 07 October 2015, 20:40 »
Hands down my most favourite and most used feature in the car.  I'm glad it's there as standard as I would never have thought to add it if it were an option.  Will need this in all of my cars going forward  :smiley:
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Re: In prasie of the Adaptive Cruise Control
« Reply #13 on: 07 October 2015, 21:21 »
Yes it is excellent and smooth I had it on my 535d but it was rough and ready and very abrupt so never really used it the golf acc on the other hand is used even on my short trip to work of 14 miles  :whistle:
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Re: In prasie of the Adaptive Cruise Control
« Reply #14 on: 08 October 2015, 10:34 »
I did have a similar experience in bad visibility the ACC braking. Its is rather good with a DSG in stop/start traffic it brought me to a halt and started me moving again, without any operator input.
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Re: In prasie of the Adaptive Cruise Control
« Reply #15 on: 08 October 2015, 11:03 »
60 miles of motorway this morning in my GTD... ACC on, 50-60mph pretty much most of the way in heavy but flowing traffic. 61mpg.... just a shade under my best figure ever.

No it doesn't effect fuel economy :)
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Re: In prasie of the Adaptive Cruise Control
« Reply #16 on: 08 October 2015, 11:21 »
Like most I don't use it but dsg coupled with this it's great used it all the way from Birmingham to Marseille (motorways and a roads) was a peach. Fresh as a daisy at every rest stop.

On the way back I did the journey in 21/22 hours door to door. Was great when it was pouring it down through France and then again in bumper to bumper traffic on m1.

It would have been a tedious drive without it with a few pulled muscles  :wink:
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Re: In prasie of the Adaptive Cruise Control
« Reply #17 on: 08 October 2015, 12:00 »
Have I told you about my mate who works in R+D at Honda?

Like many cars, the CRV has a lane departure warning. If it detects that the car has drifted over the white line without any steering wheel input, it will automatically steer the car back between the white lines whist it beeps and bongs to wake you up. Normally the steering takes over for around a second, but during testing, they set the time to always on. With the ACC set, they car drove itself for mile after mile down the M4, staying in it's lane with no driver input at all. I'm told if they were stupid enough, they could have got in the back and carried on.
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Re: In prasie of the Adaptive Cruise Control
« Reply #18 on: 08 October 2015, 20:50 »
It is very useful.  The only problem I have with it is it doesn't recognise the middle lane morons.  When correctly pulling back into the left hand lane after overtaking a slower vehicle, it will accelerate again to the set speed which means you will soon be undertaking the these highway code deniers.  Maybe a future upgrade will include a "motorway mode" that has a secondary beam for detecting them
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Re: In prasie of the Adaptive Cruise Control
« Reply #19 on: 08 October 2015, 23:23 »
Quote from: KyleB on 07 October 2015, 12:26
I didn't think you'd be able to acheive good MPG with it on (as I'm under the assumption that cruise control is really bad for MPG) so I haven't used it as much as I should.

Might give it a go next time.

It makes a slight difference depending on how you drive as if you are a driver that looks ahead and eases off when needed you will save fuel as the cruise control will keep going until the radar senses something in front.
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