#23

Did you get the car from the hip hop school dad advert?

#24

Used the parking assist only to try it. I can get nearer the kerb.

Only use the cruise control in 50mph roadwork areas but I don’t have adaptive. Mainly drive non-motorway anyway.

Wow Balonz, this post is so interesting!

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#25

What colour is your car?

#26

The first time I tried to use my cruise control on my commute home, I thought turning it on would set it to whatever speed I was currently driving at, rather than the last speed it had been set at. Ended up accelerating rapidly from 30 to 50 right before a speed camera and had to slam on the brakes.

#27

That is madness surely?

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#30

It is black and I have tinted black windows and mainly black alloys and black roof rails. It’s pretty black.

#31

download

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#32

No I wouldn’t.

I like driving too much to let the car drive me.

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#33

Woah! My partner is something of a boff-job and always points out to me that tinted windows aren’t roadworthy or something whenever she sees them. Also if a numberplate is in the wrong font or whatever. Can’t imagine caring myself.

#34

I think that is only the case if they are the front windows or windscreen. Otherwise vans couldn’t exist as that is the ultimate tint.

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#35

I’ve been in a car that drove itself. Very very smooth.

Driver-less cars are much better at driving than humans, obviously.

#36

“Vans is the ultimate tint”

I like that.

#37

You can reset it by wiggling the stalk. I hadn’t figured it out yet.

#38

You’ve got to be ready to take over control with a driverless car don’t you, which probably involves more concentration than driving yourself.

Really you want to be able to ignore the road and start preparing some crackers and cheese or something.

#39

um… ok.

#40

Always whack the cruise control on as much as possible but wouldn’t ever want anything fully automated - especially on a road where you can have a bit of fun.

Adaptive cruise control is all well and good until it decides a road sign or something in a lay-by is a threat and drops anchor for no reason.

You’d need to be paying just as much attention in something driverless, so apart from a bit of CC lightening the load on a motorway, it’s all a load of shit innit.

#41

Ours does parallel parking and it’s spooky AF frankly. You still have to do the pedals but it steers and tells you what to do. Handy in tight side-streets, but it only works when parking on the left

You’ll have to pry adaptive cruise control from my cold, dead hands though. Makes motorway driving so much more bearable. Lane assist doesn’t seem to do a right lot, though - fake vibrations in the steering wheel and a bit of resistance if you try and steer over a white line but it doesn’t actually follow lanes if you don’t steer.

#42

As soon as AI driven cars are at the point where I can take one to the pub, get sparkled and let it drive me home I’ll definitely get one. I’m all for welcoming our new robot overlords so long as they’re enabling my low level alcoholism. Bonus points if I can order a kebab on just eat and get them to bring it out to the car for me.

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#43

Cruise control works wonders for your fuel economy too (unless you’ve got it set to 90mph)