Posted by =?iso-8859-1?Q?mark=5Fdigital= on July 19, 2006, 10:23 am
> windwatcher wrote:
>> If you drive in a metropolitan or suburban area, you may never use the
>> cruise control. If you drive on superhighways without a lot of cars,
>> cruise control is great. When most of your driving consists of lots of
>> stops and starts, the cruise control is a waste of your money. I might
>> use my own cruise control for 5 percent of driving tim in New England,
>> USA because most of my driving is within 50 miles of home. If you take
>> a lot of long trips on long straight roads with little or no stop and
>> go, it would be worth it.
> I'm just as likely to use the cruise control in the backroads of New
> England, as I am to use it on the highway. Since you cannot tell the
> speed of your car by the sound, it is very easy to be going faster than
> you really should or want to (and especially so on the NHW20, which is
> quieter than my NHW11 that I added the Toyota cruise control to it).
> The cruise control can be set to as low as 24MPH and usually holds
> speeds to +/-1MPH, and can be a great help at keeping you from meeting
> up with speed traps or going faster than you should when a sharp turn
> come up... I enjoy using it in a 30mph mountainside community, for
> example.
My sentiments exactly. I may add I can't tell if I'm accelerating too slow
or too fast from a dead stop.
mark_
Posted by Bill on July 18, 2006, 8:50 pm
> If you drive in a metropolitan or suburban area, you may never use the
> cruise control. If you drive on superhighways without a lot of cars,
> cruise control is great. When most of your driving consists of lots of
> stops and starts, the cruise control is a waste of your money. I might
> use my own cruise control for 5 percent of driving tim in New England,
> USA because most of my driving is within 50 miles of home. If you take
> a lot of long trips on long straight roads with little or no stop and
> go, it would be worth it.
I use my cruise control at all speeds. I believe it keeps me from
inadvertently driving too fast. It's all too easy to creep up to 35 in a 30
mph zone. I keep my foot near my brake pedal in case someone's pet crosses
the road and think I can stop sooner using this technique.
Posted by =?iso-8859-1?Q?mark=5Fdigital= on July 19, 2006, 10:28 am
>> If you drive in a metropolitan or suburban area, you may never use the
>> cruise control. If you drive on superhighways without a lot of cars,
>> cruise control is great. When most of your driving consists of lots of
>> stops and starts, the cruise control is a waste of your money. I might
>> use my own cruise control for 5 percent of driving tim in New England,
>> USA because most of my driving is within 50 miles of home. If you take
>> a lot of long trips on long straight roads with little or no stop and
>> go, it would be worth it.
>>
> I use my cruise control at all speeds. I believe it keeps me from
> inadvertently driving too fast. It's all too easy to creep up to 35 in a
> 30 mph zone. I keep my foot near my brake pedal in case someone's pet
> crosses the road and think I can stop sooner using this technique.
When I'm not using cc I'll wedge my foot a bit between the pedal and the
wall to keep my speed from drifting upwards.
mark_
Posted by Bill on July 19, 2006, 3:48 pm
>> I use my cruise control at all speeds. I believe it keeps me from
>> inadvertently driving too fast. It's all too easy to creep up to 35 in a
>> 30 mph zone. I keep my foot near my brake pedal in case someone's pet
>> crosses the road and think I can stop sooner using this technique.
>>
>>
> When I'm not using cc I'll wedge my foot a bit between the pedal and the
> wall to keep my speed from drifting upwards.
> mark_
I'm plagued by muscle cramps. Trying to hold the gas pedal to maintain the
no-arrow display leads to a cramped ankle in about 30 seconds. Cruise
really alleviates those cramps too, but it isn't quite as effective. Had I
driven that mileage marathon a while back I'd probably be in a wheel chair
now.
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>> If you drive in a metropolitan or suburban area, you may never use the
>> cruise control. If you drive on superhighways without a lot of cars,
>> cruise control is great. When most of your driving consists of lots of
>> stops and starts, the cruise control is a waste of your money. I might
>> use my own cruise control for 5 percent of driving tim in New England,
>> USA because most of my driving is within 50 miles of home. If you take
>> a lot of long trips on long straight roads with little or no stop and
>> go, it would be worth it.
> I'm just as likely to use the cruise control in the backroads of New
> England, as I am to use it on the highway. Since you cannot tell the
> speed of your car by the sound, it is very easy to be going faster than
> you really should or want to (and especially so on the NHW20, which is
> quieter than my NHW11 that I added the Toyota cruise control to it).
> The cruise control can be set to as low as 24MPH and usually holds
> speeds to +/-1MPH, and can be a great help at keeping you from meeting
> up with speed traps or going faster than you should when a sharp turn
> come up... I enjoy using it in a 30mph mountainside community, for
> example.