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Re: Scion tC Now this is interesting...

Driving my Scion the other day, I had the cruise set for 50, and since I

> was on a secondary road I came up on some traffic. Nothing drastic, just > slow down a little. > > The brakes on this car are VERY touchy, so I just touched the brake and... > > the car SPED UP! > > It seems I had depressed the pedal enough to make the pads grab, but not > enough to trip the brake light! So, the cruise control added some more > juice! Once I pressed a little more, the cruise gave up, but until I > pressed the pedal past a certain point, the cruise stayed on. > > BTW, on this car, it WILL remember what speed you have set until you > either turn the cruise off, or shut the car off. So, if you were doing 75 > on the highway, and come into town, and accidently hit the stalk and > select "Resume"... > > I did this accidently once, and the car responded by taking off at > lightning speed; but pressing the brake (far enough) stopped this.

make sure your brake switch is adjusted properly. Your brake lights should come one when you barely touch the pedal. It sounds like you have to press a bit more for your lights to come on.

Reply to
m6onz5a
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This is something Toyota would be interested in hearing, but they are probably already aware of this as a potential problem. Offhand, I can't think of anything else that would tell the car to stop depressing the accelerator once the brake-applied signal is lost. But I could be forgetting something.

Reply to
Bill Vanek

Or you could drive the car yourself, and skip all the inherent problems of cruise control. Never-turned-on cruise control never malfunctions.

Reply to
MG

Yes, however the never removed from the accelerator pedal foot tends to cramp well within the cruising range of most vehicles.

Reply to
Pete C.

Also, the cruise-controlled car tends to stay within a narrow range of speeds, which limits the urge that police have to pull you over.

Jeff

Reply to
dr_jeff

That is most often why I use the cruise. My natural tendency is to at least keep up with other traffic if not to cruise slightly faster than the median speed, which is not good if one is trying to maintain a clean driving record.

nate

Reply to
N8N

dr_jeff wrote in news:eY2dncFqsYlO4_jRnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@giganews.com:

Oh, they'll find a reason, Esp. if your licence plate isn't the same colours as theirs.

Reply to
chuckcar

I didnt pay nearly $40k to have to avoid cruise. That is bullshit

Reply to
hls

I have never seen a cruise control that didn't do this to some extent.. the one in my Chrysler Laser would accelerate briefly when you put the clutch out.....

--scott

Reply to
Scott Dorsey

This one is pretty aggressive. Doesnt bother me so much, but might drive a little old bluehaired lady nuts.

Reply to
hls

Wait til you get adaptive cruise control.

Reply to
MG

I've noticed that fuel economy suffers quite a bit with adaptive cruise control because the system backs off the throttle sooner than I would, and when changing lanes to move around a slower moving vehicle, the radar sees that the obstacle is gone and then reapplies the throttle. The adaptive cruise control seems to adjust the throttle a lot more than I would for about a or 2 MPG penalty over what I get with my right foot.

Reply to
Ray O

I guess you would say I already have adaptive cruise control. In the laser mode, it work that way. Sometimes I switch it over to normal because I find some of the adaptive features to be irritating.

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hls

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