Intelligent Cruise Control

[bulletbob]

Im seriously looking at the Honda Crv, its rated top notch for safety and has all the safety features I want.

Im going to look at the EX-L with navigation but alot of people tell me the android play is better than built in nav. I dont know Ive always had built in navigation, I have to look at this android and apple play gps

Take a look at Toyota's chr

[Adelaide]

I have this setting turned off on my car but would use it for longer journeys (like the drive to Canada). As it is, my heads-up display tells me when I am following too closely, my sound system rumbles if I go over a line (drift) and a bunch of lights and alarms go off if I get too close to anything on the sides or back of the car. I can even tell, without looking down or away or in a mirror, when a car is passing me. It's kind of nifty.

I generally don't want to rely on these things, though, but to use them to assist in situations where I could potentially get sleepy or lose concentration.

[Common]

Can you set it so only the driver's door opens when you walk towards it?

Peter I dont know, I got it set when you turn off the vehicle, jusut the drivers door unlocks instead of all of them. I think thats better for my wife if she out and about alone, dont need all the doors to open, if she needs the other doors open hit the button.
It also locks the doors as you walk away from the car.

Pete there so much damn stuff on this thing I havent even begun to learn it, It may have a setting for just the drivers door and it may only open the drivers door aand then you hit the button for the others. I try to pay attention to that today.

[Common]

I have this setting turned off on my car but would use it for longer journeys (like the drive to Canada). As it is, my heads-up display tells me when I am following too closely, my sound system rumbles if I go over a line (drift) and a bunch of lights and alarms go off if I get too close to anything on the sides or back of the car. I can even tell, without looking down or away or in a mirror, when a car is passing me. It's kind of nifty.

I generally don't want to rely on these things, though, but to use them to assist in situations where I could potentially get sleepy or lose concentration.

Coming home from the dealer the damn car scared me, I guess i drifted to far to the right the car rumbled and moved me back in the lane by itself, I said what the hell just happened.

The salesman said if I was on the highway with cruise on, the car vehicle just about drives itself. I said NO THANK YOU ill keep my hands on the wheel

[Peter1469]

Peter I dont know, I got it set when you turn off the vehicle, jusut the drivers door unlocks instead of all of them. I think thats better for my wife if she out and about alone, dont need all the doors to open, if she needs the other doors open hit the button.
It also locks the doors as you walk away from the car.

Pete there so much damn stuff on this thing I havent even begun to learn it, It may have a setting for just the drivers door and it may only open the drivers door aand then you hit the button for the others. I try to pay attention to that today.

I have the old alarm key combo. If I hit unlock once only the driver's door unlock; if I hit it twice all doors unlock. I prefer only unlocking the driver's door because otherwise some nogoodnick has easy access to the other doors. And if I am in a parking lot in certain places as soon as I get in I lock the drivers door.

[Peter1469]

Coming home from the dealer the damn car scared me, I guess i drifted to far to the right the car rumbled and moved me back in the lane by itself, I said what the hell just happened.

The salesman said if I was on the highway with cruise on, the car vehicle just about drives itself. I said NO THANK YOU ill keep my hands on the wheel

I have a 2009 Ford Escape hybrid that I like just fine. But for some reason the gas mileage has really sucked lately. Like something is stressing the hybrid battery. It should still have 25K miles on it. I don't want to have to replace it, and I don't want a car that thinks it can drive better than me.

[donttread]

Alot of cars have that stop and go, stops at red lights and starts as soon as you hit the gas

Right, but I don't have to like it. LOL

[Adelaide]

Coming home from the dealer the damn car scared me, I guess i drifted to far to the right the car rumbled and moved me back in the lane by itself, I said what the hell just happened.

The salesman said if I was on the highway with cruise on, the car vehicle just about drives itself. I said NO THANK YOU ill keep my hands on the wheel

When I went for a test drive, the lane assist blared an alarm at me and the dealer showed me how to change it to a rumble and then how to change the volume level. It's nice to be made aware without having the $#@! scared out of you (the blaring alarm is reserved for getting too close to actual objects, like the back-up and blindspot assist things).

[jigglepete]

I've got a 2004 Toyota Tacoma with near to 200,000 on it. I'll likely keep as a lawn ornament when the time comes.

Use it as a planter

[jigglepete]

While in Chicago a few days ago, I was driving a Jeep with 4000 miles on it, the GPS was absolutely useless, we kept having to double check with Google Maps to get the correct directions...when we were dropping it off at the airport, and it told us to turn 11 miles before we needed to I mentioned to my friend that I got the full insurance, so lets stop at a hardware store so I can get a claw hammer and rip it out of the dashboard and hand it to them at the counter LOL.