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[quote=Anonymous]I used to use it. Nowadays people's driving feels more eratic. I used to have frequent road trips - I put 150k miles on a car in 4 years. I remember using the cruise control constantly. It was actually a thing to find a "partner" on the road to cruise with, and we would swap lead every once in a while for "speed radar shield" duty.

Not any more. I still drive a long road trip every now and then and it's maddening. People would drive 60mph in one stretch, and 70mph the next. They would suddenly speed up to 80, and back down to 60 again. I've had an adaptive cruise on a few cars now and I hate it. If the lane I'm in slowed down, my car would slow down with it, and when I switched lanes, instead of slowly getting up to speed again, the car would kick down a couple of gears and accelerate like it was drag racing someone. All of the adaptive cruise cars I've owned behaved this way. So I got in the habit of turning off the cruise when I change lanes just so I wouldn't experience this ridiculous acceleration.

I do still use the cruise control in normal mode some times. If a car in front of me is slow, and I start to get close, my car doesn't slow down, and I just change lanes and the car keeps going at the same speed.

The one modern cruise control feature I *DO* like is speed limit sign reading - where if you set your speed limit to say 5mph over the current speed limit, the car will maintain that gap and change its speed by reading speed limit signs on the side of the road. That's quite useful. [/quote]

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