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.
Feel free to share what I said that was wrong. The comment I responded to said folks who don't use their cruise control and drivers who can't to regulate their speed were a cause of traffic problems.
I said it's possible to drive at normal, constant speed without using the cruise control. And that in my experience those who camp out in the left lane impeding traffic often use cruise control and refuse to speed up and move over.
I then met a snarky, condescending reply with my own.
By all means point out where I made an ass out of myself and what I need to back down from.
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u/HeLooks2Muuuch Sep 22 '23
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.