Will have to check. The Odyssey has it and it’s awesome.
However it may not work in bumper to bumper as there’s usually a minimum speed for it.
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Any GTAM'ers own an electric vehicle?
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However it may not work in bumper to bumper as there’s usually a minimum speed for it.
I think Tesla works down to stopped. Not sure about implementation by others. Minimum speed would be better than nothing, but obviously not ideal.
Many EV’s including the Volt have some special coating of Unobtainium or something in the rear rotors that’s supposed to delay serious rust issues. The dealership I bought my 2011 at had to replace the rear rotors to certify it and FWIW they’re still in *decent* (but not perfect, certainly rusty but not severely pitted or anything) 3 years later.
These special rotors are dealer level only and are silly expensive. When I certified our 2012 when we sold it I put the $15 Parts Shop specials on there. ?
Sounds like about an exact same commute distance wise as my brother in law. He’s 100% EV in the summer on his 2018 and 80/20 winter. He had access to a plug in his parking garage at work for a while that made it 100% winter as well but some crybaby ruined that….
Ya...Tesla isn’t in the budget in any way so I’ll have to stick to my foot to stop the car.
Although would be nice to sleep as the car drives itself.
I’ve already set up a library card for audiobooks and looking for podcasts.
mind you if I take a massive wash on the WRX I’ll just keep it.
True one pedal driving is common on many EV’s.
GM engineered the Volt with things like creep in an effort to make it “car-like” to people. I’m not sure they should have bothered - to me it’s part of the past that should have been left there.
Our Ioniq has creep as well although it can be turned off so you can pull up to a stop using the brakes and then take your foot off the brake and it’ll hold, but annoyingly it defaults back to on again at every ignition cycle.
GM engineered the Volt with things like creep in an effort to make it “car-like” to people. I’m not sure they should have bothered - to me it’s part of the past that should have been left there.
Our Ioniq has creep as well although it can be turned off so you can pull up to a stop using the brakes and then take your foot off the brake and it’ll hold, but annoyingly it defaults back to on again at every ignition cycle.
I wouldn't want Tesla for many reasons, I was just stating that some manufacturers have that aspect figured out (and I think that is a great application for self-driving with minimal risk or opportunity for the computer to kill you). My suspicion is it may be related to computer control of brakes. At speed you can get away with manual brakes and a flashing light to tell the driver to help, to go to stopped (and have short following distances), the computer likely needs control of friction brakes.
Not much difference in regen between Gen1 & Gen2, having owned both.
My 2017 has ACC (active cruise control) and to be honest I wouldn't pay for it as a stand-alone option in the future. I drive the 407 home most nights and don't see the benefit of having the car in front of you control YOUR speed. It'll work in stop-and-go side streets too but is too jerky and will not stop you completely (unless the sensor sees an imminent collision happening) ... when it needed to slow down I was afraid the car behind me would rear-end me. Never used it again in that scenario.
The regen paddle for your left hand I've used often but stepping on the brakes actually activates the regen as well and looking at the kwh usage display, I'm not sure that the paddle does any more than the brakes do up to the point when friction does the stopping.
For me, I can do the round trip commute all year round on battery only but I'm only 26km 1 way to work.
My 2017 has ACC (active cruise control) and to be honest I wouldn't pay for it as a stand-alone option in the future. I drive the 407 home most nights and don't see the benefit of having the car in front of you control YOUR speed. It'll work in stop-and-go side streets too but is too jerky and will not stop you completely (unless the sensor sees an imminent collision happening) ... when it needed to slow down I was afraid the car behind me would rear-end me. Never used it again in that scenario.
The regen paddle for your left hand I've used often but stepping on the brakes actually activates the regen as well and looking at the kwh usage display, I'm not sure that the paddle does any more than the brakes do up to the point when friction does the stopping.
For me, I can do the round trip commute all year round on battery only but I'm only 26km 1 way to work.
I can recall last summer driving home along Steeles in busy rush hour traffic and a young couple in an expensive Mercedes behind me with the guy hardly ever looking up from his phone ... didn't take me long to figure out the car must've had a more advanced ACC system on it - it was literally doing the driving for him.
My buddy asked me ‘why don’t you just buy a brand new M3 from Tesla?’
my response...’money...the answer is money’
And Tesla. Having your commuter down for months because of a fender bender on the commute (high probability given enough hours in traffic) isn't helpful.
Well if KBB is to be believed my trade in value should be around 25k....which would let me pull the trigger.
Alright time to do some shopping and test driving.
Alright time to do some shopping and test driving.
Pretty sure its trickled down to a lot of regular cars now but as an option.
Same with auto park, F150s since at least 2017 could partially park themselves, you just modulate gas and brake, car does all the steering. Reverse and parallel parking spots.
Only issue with most ACCs I've tried, they leave way too much space for traffic situations. Tesla allowed the closest distance, the rest even at the closest setting, you were leaving miles, letting everyone cut you off and looking like someone on their phone to other cars.
Yup that’s my peeve with the Odyssey ACC. Way too much space left between me and the car up front. If there’s any traffic I just turn it off. At 6am on a Saturday on the 400....ACC all the way.
Interesting. Only car I have tried it on was a Subaru with eyesight many years ago. I had the opposite issue. At the furthest distance, by the time I would have identified that it had screwed up, I would have been screwed. At max distance, it was slightly closer than I would normally drive. Add in some time for me to react to that gap closing and it wouldn't have been good. That system had larger problems than that and I believe it was incredibly dangerous and should never have been allowed in public. I only tried it on reasonably open roads, never in heavy traffic.
Don't hold your breath for Tesla "full self driving". Seems that someone called them out on their "FSD Beta", causing the lawyers to start lawyering ...
www.thedrive.com
Tesla Admits Current ‘Full Self-Driving Beta’ Will Always Be a Level 2 System: Emails
A Tesla regulatory counsel told the California DMV that it will remain a hands-on system.
www.thedrive.com
My Volt has a button on the wheel to choose between 3 settings with the closest being about 2 seconds, which is my minimum following distance anyways.
Odyssey has four different cycles/settings, from extra long all the way down to short.
Yup. And the short still leaves a huge amount of space to the car ahead of you.
But if someone fits into that space the brakes go on hard. I hope the brake lights turn on automatically as the braking force is quit strong.
@GreyGhost ive read nothing positive about the Subaru Eyesight system. Mines a manual so it doesn’t even have it, but I’ve read it’s a horrible/useless system.
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