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#1 ·
Bugs the crap out of me these days 99.9% of cars and trucks have cruise control, they are made to work at speeds 25MPH and up, Yet people refuse to use them and play Yoyo, AKA know as up and down on their speed.
Ok My daughter was one and a real bad one on the free way her speeds would be 50 MPH for 5 to 10 miles then 75 and 80 for another 5 to 10 MPH. So I yell at her after I and getting sick from the up and down WHY DON'T YOU USE THE CRIUSE CONTROL and save some gas money.
she replys she doesn't have control if she sets it.
I thought you were a COLLEGE EDUCATED Person? You have a on off switch on the turn signal stalk, You have a brake pedal that you only have to step on and it is turned off so how in gods name do you not have control.

So this morning on the way to a car show I get behind one of these fools out in the country, speed limit 55 mph but i am driveing 45 to 60 behind this clown before I can find a place to pass and once I am beside him he wants to drive 75 and 80 and try to push me when I do get arouind him.

I use my CC all the time when the speed limit is over 25MPH.

:D Al
 
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#3 ·
CC is something I wish my car had, never had a car with it though I have borrowed a few with it, very nice but to be honest I would only use it once a year or so. I don't drive on roads where you can use it. too many bends and obsticals.
 
#6 ·
If you tried that with ANY female in my family, verbal abuse associated with criticism of driving, there would have been a test of the anti-lock brake system, and then when you could breathe again after being strangled by the seat belt, you would notice that you were going 120, at which point there would be another brake check. After several cycles, they might say something like, "Why, does this bother you?" or something like that. Some of them might be looking straight at you the whole time.

CC is great, if it works, and you are in a place that you can use it. If you live in a lot of places, you won't be in the habit of using cruise control, because there are too many curves, or there is too much traffic. I have been in a lot of vehicles that had cruise control, but it did not work.
 
#14 ·
I'd like to add to the OP's complaint, people that DO use cruise control but won't speed up to pass cars when they're in the left lane!
If the nimrod on the right speeds up a little, you have a rolling roadblock at 62 mph and no one can get around it for miles. :mad:
Besides using the hand controls, all you have to do is press the accelerator for a few moments, pass the car on the right, move over and let off the gas. The car will resume CC speed and everybody behind you in the left lane can get on their merry way! :D
 
#19 ·
The first time I heard that tactic, it was from a biker friend of mine who had it done to him. The people in the car thought it was funny. After that I started noticing it when it was sunny, but occasionally I would "wash" my windows that way to get the dust off, not thinking it was a way to douse someone behind me.
I try to give drivers the opportunity to move over to the "slow lane" but like the OP, some people are determined to aggravate others on the road, and a few even seem to make it their life's mission.
I've never u understood why, unless they are frustrated traffic cop wannabees.

Michigan roads have hills and turns the Cruise controll does just fine on the hills and for the curves a light touch of the brakes shuts it off and once around the curve a touch of resume starts it back up again at the speed you have set.

Yoyo's go up and down and some people can even make them do tricks but the Dingle Dwarf which is another name for a dam fool can't do the tricks as they just are plain and simple are not smart enough.

Here in Michigan we have a law againest driveing in the passing lane. If some one is driveing under speed in the passing lane pull out your cell ( I push a button on the steering wheel and say call 911, Or tell my passanger to do it.) and dial 911 and report the licence plate number. Down the road some place they will get stoped and get a good talking to explaining the rules of the road, if they have other complaints on their record maybe even a piece of paper that will extract about $100.00 from their wallet to get their attention. If it isn't the first time maybe a $200.00. Ya I know it doesn't get them out of your way right then but they probably won't get in your way again.


:D. Al
There are similar laws in most every state, but it doesn't seem to do much good.
 
#18 ·
Driving the same speed all day is boring.
For entertaining driving I suggest moving to Missouri and driving an old 80,000 pound semi truck with a 238 Detroit and a five and five transmission with MANUAL three speed rear ends.
Just think in only two days You can drive the back roads from St. Louis to Kansas City and have an arm like a gorilla.

Oops I have been informed of a mistake apparently driving the 1951 600 in.³ six-cylinder international gas engine will make this even better.
 
#24 ·
Here in Michigan your supposed to not exced the speed limit even to pass. I think some one who made that law/rule had their head where the sun don't shine.

Get around the slow poke as quick as you can seems safer to me.


:D Al
 
#25 ·
I know several people who have fallen asleep at the wheel, and had they been using CC, would probably be in a vegetative state, or worse. I rarely use it because nowadays it's too easy to get distracted, and there are too many people on the road doing dumb things - on their phones, going way under the speed limit, way over the speed limit, no lights on, etc. I want the vehicle to start slowing THE INSTANT I pull my foot off the gas - that split second between that moment and hitting the brakes can make a world of difference....
 
#26 ·
As Harry Potter used to say on Mash, HORSE HOCKEY PUCKS!!!!!! Cruise control or not car/truck would have stopped when it hit the object that stopped it. Must hang out with some sleepy People too, if they keep falling asleep at the wheel indangering others on the road.

Our old Buick will coast a long ways when you let up on the gas pedal, same with my 2016 Dodge truck. Got to apply the brake to slow and stop them so that shuts the cruse control down.

So not useing it excuss doesn't hold water.

:D Al
 
#29 ·
Cruise control or not car/truck would have stopped when it hit the object that stopped it.
Did you sleep through drivers ed?

Two objects colliding head on - each going 50mph - is a combined force of 100 mph.

Two objects colliding head on - where one is going 50mph and the other is going 40mph - is a combined force of 90mph.

90 is slower and therefore (relatively) safer than 100mph. Mere seconds of deceleration could in fact save lives.

Our old Buick will coast a long ways when you let up on the gas pedal
You slept through science class too, huh?

Yes, the old gal will coast a long ways but according to the laws of physics she is loosing speed every second, every inch.
 
#27 ·
The point was, every car starts to slow down when the foot is taken off the accelerator. Sometimes the 10 mph is enough to make a difference. Or so the cops said. To each his own - although you believe that your choices should be mandatory for others, some of us see the opposite point.

I guess when all is said and done - YOU are the one in charge of your vehicle. Slow moving others, obstructions, animals, weather - just all the factors that are part of driving.

And as to your rudeness - maybe it that I know a lot of people, sleepy or not. But then again, I tend to be more accepting of people and their idiosyncrasies... Because I have some of my own. :)
 
#28 · (Edited)
My CC slows the car if a car in front slows (depending on how many car lengths I've set it to) and stops it if the car in front stops. It also buzzes/vibrates if the car drifts across the line and pushes you back into the lane via positive pressure unless the turn signal is on.

Pretty cool stuff.

ETA: Looks like I've been on the road too long..I already posted about this.
 
#33 ·
One thing I'm going to dissagree with if the speed limit is 50 and you have a trailer so you're doing 45 (maximum allowed here) and I run into a something doing 35-40 I WILL pass it and you will stick behind me and wait. Cruise control is great on long straightish flat roads as soon as you hit a bend or have to break or change gear it gets more annoying that it's worth. The two cars I drive with it have slightly different set ups one will allow you to accelerate without knocking it off, sounds great but round here if you want to overtake you also need to change gear, as soon as that clutch goes down.. off it goes. the other one stops it as soon as you hit any pedals. You can use the switch to speed up or slow down but it is very very slow.
 
#37 ·
I don't get it. 1 mph over the speed limit is a crime.
Do you just steal a few bucks when you go to the bank ?
Actually, I doubt you can find a "criminal" statute for minor speeding. You can find a "civil" penalty, but that's why they have a traffic court for traffic cases instead of a criminal court.
No one is "stealing" anything at 62 mph.......except the gov't when they fine you, that is.
 
#35 ·
This is why I stay home whenever possible. When I do go out in the Death Mobile I am constantly on the watch for other drivers trying to kill or maim me. I try to go the speed limit. If someone comes roaring up behind me I pull over, if possible, to let them pass. I only use the cruise control on the interstate highway.
 
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#36 ·
Best signs for for the highway.
My favorite is "merge here" with an arrow pointing exactly to where The games are over and you should get in line.
The next one is one I want to see.
Passing lane if you're not passing get out of this Lane.
You are not passing the car 3 miles ahead of you that you may catch up with some day.
However if you have been passed on the right you are obviously being a moron.
 
#38 ·
My be you should make a in the car/truck pet peeves post.

I would put the one in it about the tailgaters who do not intend to pass so any body who wants to has to pass two cars/trucks and a travel trailer insted of just the one pulling the travel trailer.

:D. Al
 
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