Cruise Control - Turn it off in the rain!!!

[robert.saunders]

There is pleanty of occasion to use it and find it far more relaxing to drive with it. The Merc system having driven any different cars with different 'types' does seem one of the easiest to use.

Agree, the Ford CC is fiddly to use, all buttons on the steering wheel and they're not even illuminated, Ford relying on texture for night time use

The Merc system with its stalk is intuitive and simple to operate

The Ford does have a symbol displayed on the computer display when it's activated however.

 

[fredfloggle]

I don't understand you guys who appear to be anti electronic aids. The fact this car had a prang was down to driver error, that seems to be agreed by everyone. Now, how that error is arrived at does not really matter. If his car did not have the electronic aids, I am sure he would have probably put his right foot to the floor and ended up in the same situation. Electronics are controlled by the human driver not visa versa and as such cannot be blamed for accidents. Just my 2p

It's not "against" electronic driver "aids" , but more not accepting them unconditionally without asking questions and gaining an understanding of how they really work .

 

[MBManInKen]

The Merc system with its stalk is intuitive and simple to operate

I'll second that. I've driven cars with various CC implementations, but nothing beats the Merc stalk design.

 

[television]

Hi,

This seems to me to be more of specific distronic 'problem' (though it shouldn't be) rather than ac.control one as you have to actively use c.control. i.e. to go slower than set c.control speed you have to switch it off. To speed up you have to switch it back on so you are (should) always be in control.

I can see how distronic could catch you out (as per initial post) but unless your car accelerates like a rocket (and the E320CDi don't) surely there's time to 'dab' (not brake) the brakes and switch it off?

Cheers,

This bit was talked over earlier, if you have been belting the car and go into cruise/ distronic the car will accelerate quickly to the set speed, if you have not been driving hard then the car accelerates slowly to the set speed.

The same thing as the original post almost happened to me on Wednesday on the M25 when a car took forever to move from the 3rd lane to the center lane, once he was out of my beam the car starts accelerating, just one dab on the brakes and we are back to normal