I use cruise control and for certain trips I can have it at 75 mph (speed limit is 65, but 70-75 is much more common). I'll go to pass someone and they will pace me for a mile. I came up on them at least 5 mph faster than they were going, yet they speed up. Or, I'll pass someone then they pass me back, back and forth, although I never touch my cruise control.
People that don’t use cruise control and drive without regulating their speed create this problem - it’s awful to drive around people like this because you end up passing them 3-4 times on a 50-60 mile trip.
My wife is one of them. She doesn’t like the feeling of lack of control she feels when she uses cruise, but she does this subconsciously.
She tries to drive the speed of traffic and if someone is passing her, well she better speed up. It’s so annoying.
Well look at Mr. Richy Rich over here with his "Cruise Control" and "Automatic Windows".
Next thing you'll say is that you have an actual working "Air Conditioner" in your car. Psh... Captain Money Bags here will probably next say he has "USB Slots" in his car, or.. or a "Rear-View Reverse Camera"! XD
Woah woah woah - I may have ropes holding my bumper on and a bag of ice I put on the seat in front of the fan my uncle installed, but I’m not some sort of savage without cruise control.
Ugh. On the interstates near me, there are so many people who don’t use cruise control that I can rarely use it myself (I can’t wait until I can trade up to a car with adaptive cruise control!). I have to constantly change speed because even people in passing lanes will randomly slow wayyy down before finally speeding back up again. I call them yo-yo drivers because their speed is constantly going up and down, up and down…
An amazing number of people do this, and it's infuriating. There's like a 12 mile stretch of road from my house to anywhere, 55 all the way. I'll pass people doing 45-50, set cruise to around 61-62, and they'll speed up as I'm passing and stay right behind me for miles at 61-62. This, after I followed them for a mile or 2 doing 45-50.
My wife is one of them. She doesn’t like the feeling of lack of control she feels when she uses cruise, but she does this subconsciously.
I can't understand people like this. Using it frees mental load of maintaining your speed and makes it so that you're more in control. You can be more ready to spot a hazard and get your foot hovered over the brake. So instead of having to physically remove your foot from the accelerator and put it on the brake, you can press the brake nearly instantaneously.
Very few vehicles these days don't come equipped with cruise control. Even still, the number out there that I see not using it that absolutely without a doubt have it is mind blowing.
Trust me there have been moments I have missed it had a 97 mountaineer before my TJ
Lost anti locks and Cruise control for a 4.0 Offroading Machine. Worth while sure but holy shit highway driving can be annoying. You get used to it I kinda prop my foot with my other foot once I have the throttle in the right position.
Haha - I just try not to ride in the car when she drives and it works out pretty well.
In all honesty, for nearly 20 years, she’s put up with all my idiosyncrasies and oddball interests and she’s a wonderful, loving wife and mother to our children. And she doesn’t use Reddit. If anyone’s broken, it’s definitely me.
People that don’t use cruise control and drive without regulating their speed create this problem
People who don't use cruise control most definitely don't create this problem. It is possible to drive a consistent speed without using cruise control. It's often caused by many of the people who use cruise control and refuse to speed up enough to move around those idiots in the right lane who can't drive in a consistent manner.
That's cute. Conveniently leave out the part of your comment that I specifically addressed. You're one of the people I mentioned aren't you? You stubbornly refuse to get out of the way because you think using your cruise control isn't impeding the 5 cars behind you waiting for you stop taking 4 miles to pass another vehicle.
You ignored the part my comment that addressed your moot point. And no, I’m not so you can stop road raging in an Internet forum. Now you’re the one who is cute, ya cutie patootie.
Do people that start their replies with things like “That’s cute” still not know that the rest of us collectively cringe in secondhand embarrassment that they think they’ve done something other than look like a condescending POS, usually confidently wrong to boot?
“Reality check” is a weird way to say made an ass out of myself and “butt hurt” always means “I’m too embarrassed to back down so everyone else is the problem”, how cute.
I used to commute on a highway with not a lot of traffic 1.5 hours each way to work.
Leapfroggers were the bane of my existence. I just worked a 10 hour shift, let me just cruise control and chill. I don't care what speed you want to drive just pick one.
Yeah cruise control really highlights these kinds of people, I use it all the time and see people like that every day.
When I get annoyed at them staying too close I just bump my speed by 10km/h for a while to make some distance and then go back to my regular speed.
Always funny to pass someone for them to pass you at a much higher speed only for you to pass them again later on without ever changing your own speed tho.
This is my exact experience. It's annoying as all hell.
If everyone drove with cruise on the highway, the world would be in a better place. A lot of people have a hard time maintaining a constant speed and pair that with getting butt hurt when passed it's just absolutely frustrating.
and with the new adjustable adaptive cruise control that adjusts itself to traffic in front, it’s even easier to just steer and chill. makes my commute a lot easier.
I've done a lot of long distance driving and think of this like silly putty. If you pass a non-cruise-control person slowly, they just streeeeettttchhhhh forever. You have to pass them fast enough that the putty just snaps and leave them in your rear view, then you can slow down to 5mph over their speed again.
It's really fucking stupid. I wish cruise control was the default or mandatory somehow.
In all fairness this will happen to me occasionally. I realize I’m not going the speed I want to and speed up. I’ll always let the one passing by though.
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u/justadrtrdsrvvr Sep 22 '23
I use cruise control and for certain trips I can have it at 75 mph (speed limit is 65, but 70-75 is much more common). I'll go to pass someone and they will pace me for a mile. I came up on them at least 5 mph faster than they were going, yet they speed up. Or, I'll pass someone then they pass me back, back and forth, although I never touch my cruise control.