Re:Tesla’s New Car Smell
by avar on Monday October 16, 2017 @06:26AM
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I spent all of 5 hours in a new Subaru Outback I rented this summer and wasn't impressed.
I could set the cruise control to a certain speed and it would normally slow down if there was congestion, which was very nice.
But it wouldn't work at bends in the road, because the system was seemingly just directly ahead line-of-sight. I wanted to see if it would slow down itself in that situation before I had to slam the breaks, it would have plowed into the much slower-moving car ahead of me.
So my experience is that while these systems help in bumper-to-bumper traffic on congested highways they're still to dangerous to rely on.
Re:Tesla’s New Car Smell
by rconti on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @12:38AM
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Huh, I have relatives who really love the system in their outback. I know the system in my VW impeccably follows cars in front of it, in bad weather, at imprudent speeds, around sharp bends, perfect.
I could set the cruise control to a certain speed and it would normally slow down if there was congestion, which was very nice.
But it wouldn't work at bends in the road, because the system was seemingly just directly ahead line-of-sight. I wanted to see if it would slow down itself in that situation before I had to slam the breaks, it would have plowed into the much slower-moving car ahead of me.
So my experience is that while these systems help in bumper-to-bumper traffic on congested highways they're still to dangerous to rely on.