If I end up with the SS if he ever decides to sell it that feature will be modified
If I end up with the SS if he ever decides to sell it that feature will be modified
codrus (Forum Supporter) said:Odd that your adaptive cruise doesn't work with multiple lanes -- I've used 3 or 4 different manufacturers' systems and they've all handled that just fine. Adaptive cruise works great in the Audis I've owned and in my F-250, but the implementation in the Mazda CX-9 was not great. All of them allow you to drive the car into the zone it wouldn't normally go with the throttle, but with the Mazda if you let off the throttle while you're still closer to the car in front than the setting it will hit the brakes HARD, potentially brake checking someone behind you.
I guess I should have been more clear. It "works" just fine, but it's useless. It starts slowing down as you approach the car in front of you, and it's pretty hard to predict when this is. This means that you have to change into the left lane long before you get anywhere near the car you might want pass. Invariably, as you do this, someone decides to pass you on the right, which causes you to slow down. Then everyone is passing you on the right because you're leaving too much space in front you. And then, you become the thing that you hate most in the world: someone obstructing traffic in the left lane.
Pete. (l33t FS) said:In reply to codrus (Forum Supporter) :
If autostart is annoying to people who creep forward at lights, all vehicles should have this feature and it should not be able to be disabled.
Yes, this! I don't own an automatic transmission, and I find people who creep forward at lights to be infuriating. I come to a stop immeidately behind the car in front of me, and by the time the light turns green, there's about 10 car lengths in front me. I refuse to burn up my clutch to move those 10 car lengths, and then people will *honk* at me because there's a gap.
I also find the fact that automatic transmissions "creep" when you take your foot of the brake to be one of the many things I hate about them.
My Jeep JT has been great to me and it probably has my favorite infotainment system I've ever used BUT when raising the volume it unpauses the music. I often pause the music while I'm listening to multiple back to back directions. When I try to raise the volume to hear the GPS better it unpauses the music, now louder and more disruptive.
secretariata (Forum Supporter) said:Maverick hybrid.
It will not retain your choice for drive mode once you turn the key off. So if you prefer Sport or Eco mode, every time you start it up you have to push a button on the steering wheel 4 times to clear VERY IMPOTENT messages (hey you took the parking brake off, hey you buckled your seatbelt, hey your vehicle is ready to drive and I forget the last one) in order to see the drive mode indicator (because those VERY IMPOTENT messages block that part of the display). Then you have to push the drive mode button on the center console 4 times to get Eco mode or 5 times to get Sport mode. Really Ford?
Was this typo intentional? It's definitely the best one I've seen in a while.
Berck said:I guess I should have been more clear. It "works" just fine, but it's useless. It starts slowing down as you approach the car in front of you, and it's pretty hard to predict when this is.
I guess I haven't found it hard to predict at all, and it's even got a little icon on the dash that tells you when it first sees a car ahead and then when that car moves into the range that it's going to slow down.
As for passing people, I typically use a bit of throttle to add 5-10 mph while doing that anyway. People who pass other cars on cruise with a 1 mph speed difference are a pet peeve of mine -- giving it a bit of extra gas to get by quickly and clear out of the passing lane so others can use it is just common courtesy IMHO.
Recon1342 said:P3PPY said:Recon1342 said:In reply to Pete. (l33t FS) :
Considering DOOM can be run on anything from digital picture frames to a 1998 Kodak DC260 digital camera, I'd wager it's an older vehicle than we think...
That's beautiful! I had no idea!
Bit of a derail, but you'll love this-
There's an entire subReddit dedicated to finding things that will run DOOM.
The list includes Word, MSPaint, PDF, TI-84 graphing calculators, apple watch OS 2...
I recently saw a lightning to hdmi adapter running doom.
Let me start by saying that I do not drive on public streets or roads without my seatbelt fastened. Ever.
That said, if I'm driving a car from the front of the house back to the detached garage, I ain't gonna put my seatbelt on. Seatbelt alarms like to start chirping from the moment you start the car. If, heaven forbid, you should start driving and still have not latched your seatbelt, the car will have a E36 M3 fit and beep even more insistently. Toyota seems to be the worst of cars I'm familiar with, and I've generally no other grievances with Toyotas. They fulfill their intended purpose and do it cheaply for a very long time.
Trivial, I know.
In reply to 1988RedT2 :
Kia/Hyundai will engage the parking brake if you shift out of park without the seat belt on.
I always wear my belts, too, but it is a little annoying when I go to pull one into a building. Procedure is to minimize how long the doors are open, so you park the vehicle, run out, open the door, run back into the vehicle, and then it slams the parking brake on because you didn't buckle up. This added time wastes a lot of heat.
See also: Jeeps that engage the parking brake if you try to move with the door open. Which I prefer to do because it's a pain getting my left leg in and out of a truck.
1988RedT2 said:Let me start by saying that I do not drive on public streets or roads without my seatbelt fastened. Ever.
That said, if I'm driving a car from the front of the house back to the detached garage, I ain't gonna put my seatbelt on. Seatbelt alarms like to start chirping from the moment you start the car. If, heaven forbid, you should start driving and still have not latched your seatbelt, the car will have a E36 M3 fit and beep even more insistently. Toyota seems to be the worst of cars I'm familiar with, and I've generally no other grievances with Toyotas. They fulfill their intended purpose and do it cheaply for a very long time.
Trivial, I know.
I had a '74 Valiant with interlock - it wouldn't start without you buckling up.
I hate the auto locking doors. The auto trans version of my car unlocks the doors when you put it in park, and the manual trans version only unlocks the doors when you pull the key out of the ignition. I park my car and leave the key in it a lot, and also drop PW off then park the car. Both situations are a pain because I have to manually unlock the doors. Not a big deal, but if I could disable this feature I would. I have considered disconnecting the driver's door, but then I would lose the ability to lock the door with the fob, which I kind of like.
Push button start is a feature I never really thought about until I had it. I hate it, and can't think of a single good reason for it to exist.
In reply to Peabody :
You can leave your keys in your pocket/purse.
There are benefits, like not spearing your knee in a collision, or not wearing out a lock cylinder from the Mr. T Starter Kit hanging off your key, and it makes theft more difficult (technically)
OTOH you usually can't shut the engine off while the vehicle is rolling. And twice I have left vehicles running after I'd thought that I shut them off.
I don't like to keep anything in my pockets, and actually thought it made theft easier, a lot more so in the case of some manufacturers. And every car I've ever used it in has had some sort of non start trouble at one time or another. When I put my key in the ignition and turn it, it pretty much always works, and I always know where it is.
The first time I test drove a car with PB ignition I said to the owner, while fumbling with the fob, they really should give you a place to put the key after you've started the car. He looked at me like I was some kind of idiot, and said, you're supposed leave it in your pocket. Nope.
In reply to pilotbraden :
You do realize you can turn the feature off and it will stay off. Wife's Hummer had it. So did my Sierra Denali and now my Yukon. You just turn it off once and it stays off.
In reply to theruleslawyer :
Thanks for the link! I'm planning to dive down that rabbit hole this weekend.
TravisTheHuman said:secretariata (Forum Supporter) said:Maverick hybrid.
It will not retain your choice for drive mode once you turn the key off. So if you prefer Sport or Eco mode, every time you start it up you have to push a button on the steering wheel 4 times to clear VERY IMPOTENT messages (hey you took the parking brake off, hey you buckled your seatbelt, hey your vehicle is ready to drive and I forget the last one) in order to see the drive mode indicator (because those VERY IMPOTENT messages block that part of the display). Then you have to push the drive mode button on the center console 4 times to get Eco mode or 5 times to get Sport mode. Really Ford?Was this typo intentional? It's definitely the best one I've seen in a while.
Yes. Fully intentional which is why it's in all caps...
Pete. (l33t FS) said:OTOH you usually can't shut the engine off while the vehicle is rolling. And twice I have left vehicles running after I'd thought that I shut them off.
Drives me nuts. I'm so accustomed to shutting my XJ off as I'm coasting into my space. The new truck I have to be fully stopped to shut it off.
Pete. (l33t FS) said:OTOH you usually can't shut the engine off while the vehicle is rolling. And twice I have left vehicles running after I'd thought that I shut them off.
All of the cars I've had with pushbutton start have a safety feature that allow you to turn the car off while moving by pushing and holding the start/stop button.
1988RedT2 said:Let me start by saying that I do not drive on public streets or roads without my seatbelt fastened. Ever.
That said, if I'm driving a car from the front of the house back to the detached garage, I ain't gonna put my seatbelt on. Seatbelt alarms like to start chirping from the moment you start the car. If, heaven forbid, you should start driving and still have not latched your seatbelt, the car will have a E36 M3 fit and beep even more insistently. Toyota seems to be the worst of cars I'm familiar with, and I've generally no other grievances with Toyotas. They fulfill their intended purpose and do it cheaply for a very long time.
Trivial, I know.
I was trivially able to disable the seatbelt dings in both my Toyota Tacoma and GR Corolla. I used Techstream on a laptop for the Tacoma and the Carista android app for the Corolla. My house is about 1/4 mile from my mailbox, and I'm not putting my seatbelt back on after getting the mail...
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