Cruise control

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by the2ems, Nov 3, 2016.

  1. My daughter has told me that she read that I shouldn't use cruise control in my car when the roads are wet. I've never heard that before, but a quick google seems to show that she is correct.
     
  2. Terrordales

    Terrordales Nightshift

    That would be most of the time in the UK then. :rolleyes:
     
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  3. Why? :confused:
     
  4. :p
     
  5. I've only had a quick look, but something about aquaplaning and the wheels speeding up when they lose contact with the road. I've not really looked into it yet. But I will.
     
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  6. people should learn to control their foot :hattip:
     
  7. That sounds like something that could be tremendous fun to try on one of those skid pan big circle things!

    Perhaps I'll write to that Clack Arse, Clarkson and ask him to test it out for me.
    He never responded to my previous letter when I asked him to test the difference between hitting the old fashioned sloping ends of roadside armco
    versus hitting the new fangled big yellow squares.
     
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  8. It's not a question of controlling their foot. Cruise control is useful when sitting on a motorway doing a constant 70. But now the question is, should it be used in wet conditions. I don't know the answer, but I'm going to do some research.
     
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  9. yes it is , i manage to maintain any speed for how ever long is needed and so did most of us till some pillock thought it was better to decide what speed they should go and set it no matter what the road conditions are :D does jenson button have cruise control :D
     
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  10. I think the real question is, does Jenson Button cruise?
    I'd love it if he did, but I've never seen him when I've been out cruising.
    Even on the nights when Chanice and Barrington have come out with us.
     
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  11. You shouldn't use it in the wet.

    The problem is when you start the aquaplane if you hit standing water.
    The cruise control thinks, ooo, the wheels aren't spinning, let me give them more/less power.
    It then goes horrifically wrong.

    However, this isn't common knowledge for some reason!
     
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  12. Happened to me once years ago in a 90something chevrolet corvette ,
    .just let your daughter drive,,;)
     
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  13. he must be he doesnt win :D
     
  14. ron

    ron

    cruise control is driving at a constant speed if the wheels speed up due to aquaplaning the criuse control will think its going faster so will slow the wheel speed down
     
  15. Is it not linked in with traction control?
     
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  16. Yes and the first driver reaction is to
    Touch the Brake
    This deactivates the cruise control
    Well it does on my E61
     
  17. Baysearcher

    Baysearcher [secret moderator]

    Yep, but it'll take longer to lift your foot up off the floor and onto the brake pedal, than it would to slide your foot from the throttle over to the brake.
    The difference in the time taken could quite easily see you hitting a tree / central reservation / badger.
     
  18. The car slows down due to less acceleration. aquaplaning. The rear wheel spins at the Speed that was set on the cruise control. Therfore spinning slightly faster than the car velocity would be .
     
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  19. Zed

    Zed Gradually getting grumpier

    I haven't aquaplaned since I grew up and stopped driving on bald tyres. Plus everyone drives at 70,mph now, not 85mph like they did a decade or two ago and if it's wet almost everyone slows down.

    Yep, despite all the moaning and the roads being rammed, drivers have got very much more safety concious IMO.

    However I was quite cross today. 50mph average speed camera. As two lanes went to one, a ***** in an Audi 4x4 whistled up the fast lane at 70 (estimated), pulled in front of me then drove at 30 mph for the next two miles, prusumably to get his average speed down before the next camera. :mad:
     
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  20. Baysearcher

    Baysearcher [secret moderator]

    Everyone drives at 70 now?
    You should try the M4 in the mornings. If you do 70 pretty much everybody hurtles past.
     
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