Harley-Davidson developing group riding based cruise control
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we have on the wife's car.
it's GREAT, from a dead stop, you can push RESUME, and it will accelerate and follow the car in front, and stop with it at the next stop light. the only problem is that after 5 seconds or so, it releases the brakes, which can be disconcerting.
it has one HUGE flaw, when a car slows and turns 90 degrees to the right, the "anti collision" braking and the ACC get confused and want to stop very hard before the turning car gets off the radar.
it's GREAT, from a dead stop, you can push RESUME, and it will accelerate and follow the car in front, and stop with it at the next stop light. the only problem is that after 5 seconds or so, it releases the brakes, which can be disconcerting.
it has one HUGE flaw, when a car slows and turns 90 degrees to the right, the "anti collision" braking and the ACC get confused and want to stop very hard before the turning car gets off the radar.
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......... when i'm heading for the horizon, down a wide open highway in the American West
... i find no need to minutely control the throttle ON my machine
........... that said, group rides are not meant for cruise control
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I would happily sign up to be a beta tester.
My wife's new hyundia has adaptive cruise control and I love it. In heavy traffic I set the cruise control for something silly like 90 mph I can set the distance I want it to keep from the car in front of me which I set as short as possible and I never touch the gas pedal or brake. the car doesn't leave enough room for someone to cut between me and the car in front.
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Truck driving neighbor says the technology is a nightmare in driving a semi in city traffic. He says that if you accelerate to get around another truck , about the time you start to change lanes the anti collision, lane wander avoidance kicks in, kills any power and leaves you hanging in the wind...there are tricks, apparently a certain size can fits over the front sensor...
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I would happily sign up to be a beta tester.
My wife's new hyundia has adaptive cruise control and I love it. In heavy traffic I set the cruise control for something silly like 90 mph I can set the distance I want it to keep from the car in front of me which I set as short as possible and I never touch the gas pedal or brake. the car doesn't leave enough room for someone to cut between me and the car in front.
My wife's new hyundia has adaptive cruise control and I love it. In heavy traffic I set the cruise control for something silly like 90 mph I can set the distance I want it to keep from the car in front of me which I set as short as possible and I never touch the gas pedal or brake. the car doesn't leave enough room for someone to cut between me and the car in front.
You set the cruise control to 90MPH in heavy traffic ?
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I never thought I wanted regular cruise control on a motorcycle but now that I've had it on two in a row, I doubt I'd go without it again.
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Not interested in the technology discussed here ... Obviously you've not thought about meanuevering your scooter around ( physical input ) while meandering down the road?