BiG
Central Defender
Just annoys me. Lane assist is canny dangerous. I’m sure I’ve felt it pull the steering when just painted words on the road…
When I got my new VW the dealership, despite having been trained, were unable, at least initially, to tell me HOW to turn the lane assist off. And it wasn’t in the manual. I eventually discovered the button on the steering wheel that accessed a list of ‘assist’ functions and I turn it off.
But they also thought that I couldn’t turn the bit of the cruise control that, after adjusting speed down to stay within a speed restriction, automatically and immediately adjusted back to the maximum national speed limit once you exited the speed restriction.
I didn’t know what was happening at first. The car was in like 3rd or 4th gear through a 30 mph and I was preparing to adjust or accelerate gradually and… whooosh… I was off! I was still in 3rd gear or something and rapidly approaching 60mph. But the dealership said it was an element of the cruise control and couldn’t be switched off. I thought that meant ‘I won’t be using cruise control then’, which pissed me off because I like it for safety and economy reasons.
But then a bloke in the service department found out how to do It and showed me how to turn that element of cruise control off. Actually it’s switched ON in my loan car whilst they fix all my OTHER software issues (yeah right) in my own car and I’m now thinking that I quite like it. Now that I know it’s going to happen, it won’t take me by surprise and I can just control it manually. The advantage - at least in the manual car I have on loan - is that the acceleration is smoother when the system does it, rather than me increasing speed by incremental cruise control button pushes. Which is my lazy way of doing it. But in my manual, I’ll need to be mindful of the gear change requirements.
Isn’t this all utterly fascinating. I think I might shoot myself. I’m boring myself to death anyway.
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