Comment on "I don't answer questions"
gdog05@lemmy.world 1 day agoI almost got very messed up in a rental car using that. I was on a fairly tight winding road just West of Klamath Falls in Oregon. There was a concrete barrier median, the roadway, while fast was very 3 dimensional. I was overtaking a logging truck to my left with afternoon sun creating a ton of broken light (really pretty honestly). But the adaptive cruise got messed up with everything going on and did a hard braking when I absolutely didn’t expect and was very much not convenient to keep control. The brakes were worn so it tried to dive to the right, toward the semi. It was very memorable.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Oof. May I ask what car it was? I’ve mostly had good experiences with my car’s ACC (older prius) but I think it’s because I’ve learned its limits and eccentricities. My mother’s car has the ACC and lane keeping (which both work better than mine, but her car is newer and an Acura, not a Toyota. Luxury models, &c.) but they behave very differently than my car’s.
gdog05@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
This was a pretty new Dodge Hornet. Now, I’ve been a long–time Dodge hater. For many reasons. But I’m strongly guessing that they’re worse than almost anyone else in the digital realm. It got terrible fuel economy (as all Dodge/Jeep/Chrysler vehicles do) but it was an ineffective hybrid so it also had a tiny fuel tank for that bad mileage. If you can’t get a realistic 400 mile journey in a go, there’s no reason to have a gas engine at all. And I was maybe getting 260 miles between fill ups. Also, I couldn’t get into the fucking thing. So, it’s a Dodge Hornet but it’s really a crossover SUV or whatever they want to call them. In effect, quite a large vehicle. But the entryway was so full of plastic I had to move the seat well back from my driving position to get into it. And even then, I almost always hit my head. All those complaints aside, I have driven a Nissan (which, also, not the biggest fan) but it did have really solid ACC. So I’m guessing the ACC panic in the Dodge was just a Dodge thing or specific to that vehicle. When I got to the coast, I ran it through the car wash and then went and made sure all of the sensors were clean. It still did it again on the trip home with even less reason to freak out (to my knowledge and intuition on the system) but also in a much safer situation.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
i was betting ford. our last good ford was a green '94 aerostar, you know the kind. we didn’t get nissan or toyota mileage (either efficiency or distance before the engine died) but it was a good minivan.