I use mine daily, great in stop and go congestion a real anxiety reliever.
Adaptive cruise control
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Have it and tried it. It was horrible. People keep moving into the lane in front of me, which caused me to continually slow down. Maybe out in the middle of Nebraska or Wyoming it has a use, but not for me.
I love it but I really love super cruise the few times I used it on a road trip
My Stelvio has ACC, and I get my money's worth out if it, that's for sure.
My biggest complaints after nearly 4 years of using it daily:
The owners manual says you can switch between ACC mode, and normal CC mode.
It's a liar. A dirty, no good liar.
When you are dealing with sloppy road conditions, or freezing rain, the radar unit on the nose of the car gets covered in a layer of snow/slush, which shuts down the entire CC system, along with the Forward Collision Warning system, so you wind up with 2 yellow lights lit up on the dash. They really should either install a heater in the front of the radar unit for sloppy cold weather conditions, or they should install the unit in a location that can be protected better.
Sometimes, like this morning, the car detects a phantom vehicle in its path, or a car is changing lanes in front of me, and is out of the way, but the car still thinks it's in our path, and will hit the brakes.
My car also has Lane Keep Assist, and Traffic Jam Assist, and a Highway Driving Assist.
TJA will steer the car at speeds below 35 mph, on nearly any road.
I rarely drive in roads and conditions that are 35 mph or lower.
HDA only works on US Interstates, which is annoyingly restrictive.
A complaint about the HDA system, is that it HATES entry ramps on the highway, because the lane markings vanish for a little while, so it starts screaming at you, and then turns itself off, usually right at the same moment that the lane markings return. So if your cruising along in the right lane, and the white line on the right side of the road goes away, the HDA gets mad, and turns itself off until it detects that the lane marking has returned. As you can imagine, on a cross country trip, like earlier this year from Denver to St Louis, or a couple years back from Denver to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, that gets real old, real fast.
But, it's a Stellantis product.
It's not like I'm went into this purchase thinking that every electronic doodad was going to be well thought out, and properly programmed.
My biggest complaints after nearly 4 years of using it daily:
The owners manual says you can switch between ACC mode, and normal CC mode.
It's a liar. A dirty, no good liar.
When you are dealing with sloppy road conditions, or freezing rain, the radar unit on the nose of the car gets covered in a layer of snow/slush, which shuts down the entire CC system, along with the Forward Collision Warning system, so you wind up with 2 yellow lights lit up on the dash. They really should either install a heater in the front of the radar unit for sloppy cold weather conditions, or they should install the unit in a location that can be protected better.
Sometimes, like this morning, the car detects a phantom vehicle in its path, or a car is changing lanes in front of me, and is out of the way, but the car still thinks it's in our path, and will hit the brakes.
My car also has Lane Keep Assist, and Traffic Jam Assist, and a Highway Driving Assist.
TJA will steer the car at speeds below 35 mph, on nearly any road.
I rarely drive in roads and conditions that are 35 mph or lower.
HDA only works on US Interstates, which is annoyingly restrictive.
A complaint about the HDA system, is that it HATES entry ramps on the highway, because the lane markings vanish for a little while, so it starts screaming at you, and then turns itself off, usually right at the same moment that the lane markings return. So if your cruising along in the right lane, and the white line on the right side of the road goes away, the HDA gets mad, and turns itself off until it detects that the lane marking has returned. As you can imagine, on a cross country trip, like earlier this year from Denver to St Louis, or a couple years back from Denver to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, that gets real old, real fast.
But, it's a Stellantis product.
It's not like I'm went into this purchase thinking that every electronic doodad was going to be well thought out, and properly programmed.
As I've mentioned elsewhere, my C43 is equipped with Distronic Plus (Level 2 autonomy). I didn't think that I'd like it but I love using it in stop-and-go or slow moving (under 20 mph) traffic. I also find it helpful on long interstate slogs. I did disable the "route based speed adaptation"- in cruise mode it caused the car to slow down in corners to "80 year old man wearing a ball cap and Ban-Lon slacks driving a Lucerne" velocities.
It's fine if you just want to go whatever speed the traffic is going. But when it's moderate traffic, and you're constantly coming up on people going under the speed limit and want to change lanes to pass, I find even the closest follow setting will slam the brakes on as I'm changing lanes to pass and slow me down and then mess up my transition into the passing lane. I often just use regular cruise for this reason and my timing is much better and much less annoying than adaptive. But that's just me.
What year is the Corolla ? My wife's '24 Grand Highlander has Toyota's v3 safety features. There's a setting for the resume speed that you can tweak to tone down how aggressive it is when resuming your set speed. I have ours set to the 'lowest', i.e. gentle resumption. Toyota does have "Traffic Jam Assist" but it's only available on the highest trim level (wife's is 2nd from highest), but I have been able to get it to work almost hands-off and feet-off so long as traffic doesn't come to a complete stop for too long. If you encounter slow, stop-and-go traffic, adjust the follow distance to the closest it allows. As long as no one squeezes in front of you, it will maintain a gap and keep moving, even down to 1 mph.
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I had a claim for a guy that got a DUI. Totalled of course, he literally told me he regretted not turning on lane keeping claiming he probably wouldn't have gotten the DUI.Lane assist cuts down on DUI stops for observed not maintaining your lane.
We need to get steering wheel integrated breathalyzers mandatory asap. Seems a little nanny-ish but it will save many lives for sure.
Adaptive CC uses the rear brakes to decrease speed when necessary, so cars with 4-wheel disc brakes will see more wear on rear pads. We just had our 2021 Subaru Forester serviced, and the courtesy inspection said that our rear pads were more worn. I was surprised, because I have a 2005 Jeep Unlimited (LJ) with 4-wheel disc brakes, and I have always replaced front pads first, due to wear. But I just have standard CC in the Jeep. The service tech at the Subaru dealership told me that tidbit..
Yes. This.
I really like mine, but the moment I feel I need to RELY on it, I turn it off. I let it take me down to a stop;go while traffic inches along and it truly keeps the BP lower, but it can make mistakes and therefore the foot is always right there and the right thumb able to cancel. I’ve had to learn under what specific circumstances it handles well, and which ones it doesn’t.
I wonder if that’s universal or just a Subaru thang?
Universal
Really? I know electronic brake distribution was the reason for wearing rear brakes; I guess any time adaptive cruise has to drop speed it would thus engage the rears for the same reason: less front end dive under light braking.
But isn't that really just because under regular braking it'd wear the rears faster anyhow?
My 2004 VW ate rear pads at the rate of like 2x the fronts. Our Camry's, hard to say, as it keeps eating one pad, and it's gotten to the point where I replace them one at a time. But that's driven my climate...
But isn't that really just because under regular braking it'd wear the rears faster anyhow?
My 2004 VW ate rear pads at the rate of like 2x the fronts. Our Camry's, hard to say, as it keeps eating one pad, and it's gotten to the point where I replace them one at a time. But that's driven my climate...
Having owned 3 Subarus in the last 12 years, the rears have always/often been replaced first. My wife's 17 doesn't have the adaptive cruise stuff and the rears needed replacing in August with 3mm left and the front still have 8mm. They told me it's typical. I think I Googled it a while back and Subaru applies rear first for handling and nose dip? I'm not Googling again, so don't believe me until you research yourself. But it wore the rears first on a previous 2013 and 2006 as well. But the car had 120k on the brakes and now 130k on the front brakes. So I'm ok with that life out of brakes...
Love it on the Sienna. Makes long road trips a breeze. Big fan
This is a Subie brake force distribution thing and has nothing to do with ACC.
Even our old '09 Forester did exactly this, to my surprise, wearing out the rear pads in just 48K wife-driven miles from new.
Your info matches mine then. The rumor is, from what I've read and heard, you will typically replace the rear brakes twice before replacing the front brakes. A quick use of AI will provide dealerships and fairly reputable forums and articles on Subarus and their brakes. I've never had a Subaru (06, 13, and 17) that didn't eat the rears faster and none had any fancy nanny features like ACC. Glad to have you confirm my supposed thoughts and knowledge I've experienced and researched.
I have a 2024 Tucson with ACC.
I use it only in clear weather or light rain, light steady traffic, 50 mph and above.
In varying speed conditions I'd rather manually keep a front buffer space that shrinks and grows than ACC doing a lot of braking to keep a fixed distance.
I use it only in clear weather or light rain, light steady traffic, 50 mph and above.
In varying speed conditions I'd rather manually keep a front buffer space that shrinks and grows than ACC doing a lot of braking to keep a fixed distance.
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