I have been using CC for 20 years and never experienced any issues in the rain, sleet or snow. You don't stop driving or switch off your own control when it's in cruise, you just take the strain off your foot. Well, that's my theory and it seems to work for me!
I find the cruise control is a distraction as it usually takes me about 100 miles in the hire car to work out how to engage it and what disengages it. In my bus I found that a sticky throttle spindle on a 34PICT-3 is a cheap and not very effective substitute. Or setting the idle by mistake on a progressive to 1800 rpm and then putting it in fourth gear...
Yes I get your point But before you even brake the DTC diactivates the CC I like using it and I also keep more than 2 mm of tread on my tyres
can someone name any motorway where you can go at any constant speed in normal hours for more than 10 mins
The further North you go, the more polite and respectful the people are, generally, I'd say. And more laid back. Hardly any nutters up here as far as I've noticed. I spend a lot of time at 70mph, mostly in the fast lane and have yet to be undertaken, flashed at or tail gated.
I fitted a very rudimentary, aftermarket 'cruise control' that was advertised in the motor magazines back in the late '70's. I was told that it was easy to fit to any car, including a T2......well it was, provided you had a vivid imagination and a fully equipped workshop! My claim to fame with this CC, was that I drove the bus from Dubai to Doha in Qatar in 1979, and I had the cruise control engaged for 2 1/2 hours continuously,as we drove on the highway between Abu Dhabi and the Saudi border. You only saw another vehicle every ten minutes or so, if that. Tony
Yep. On a serious note. 3 - 400 miles a day every day pushing the A pedal in a 40 ton motor takes it's toll mate. I was glad of cruise and auto.
I can get a fair run on the A30 to Cornwall sometimes Until you get slowed down by a pesky "Alternative " engined Bay in the outside lane
Take some heart in the fact that he will probably get a ticket anyway, the SPECS cameras have a threshold as well as time over distance. One of the guys I work with's daughter works for the transport agency, i thought for a long time that they didn't work, according to her they do anyway.