Originally Posted by
User211
Autos totally come into their own when you have adaptive cruise control.
Adaptive cruise is just brilliant. I will never buy another car without at least adaptive cruise.
What is it people may ask? Well basically you set the car to stay at the distance you want (I think it is really time domain based) and a radar tracks the car in front of you. All you do is steer the car. The braking and gear changes are done for you and the car maintains the distance.
The system also makes it hard to drive into someone, even when disengaged, as it warns and automatically applies the brakes if it senses you are likely to hit it.
Boring you say? Not when you are stuck in huge queues, or in heavy town traffic, or in some dross overpopulated A road, or have a huge motorway journey.
Town and queue driving is a bitch with a.manual, especially in sportier cars, where the clutches are usually heavier.
No denying a manual gives a better sense of real uninterrupted control, though. But these days double clucthes and various different ways to change gear ( steering wheel buttons, levers etc), the gear stick itself (mine has two gear stick modes - a sort of 'fuck off intervention' mode and a 'resume auto mode quickly' mode) are making manuals as seriously questionable option.
+1
ACC is the best thing since sliced bread. Takes a considerable amount of physical and mental stress out of long journeys.
Having had it in my last car, it was the one essential in my next car.
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