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- hughmartin
- Member Since: 20 Sep 2023
- Location: UK
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Adaptive Cruise Control + Limiter
Hi Folks. Having been away from the Disco scene for a couple of years, I have just traded in my Defender for a new D5 Metropolitan. I'm trying to get to grips with the adaptive cruise control and adaptive speed limiter. Am I correct in saying that I can't have both active at the same time? If so, WHY have LR done this??? My wife's Ford Kuga has both and both can be operating together. It means you can drive with cruise control selected and not worry about fiddling around readjusting the selected speed when entering a new speed limit area. It just does it seamlessly for you. This seems a big omission.
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- 747_JK
- Member Since: 26 Jun 2018
- Location: England
- Posts: 417
Interesting point you raise. I'd never thought of it as a limitation... but I guess you can't miss what you've never had. Does sound like it could be a useful feature.
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- JonM
- Member Since: 30 Jun 2016
- Location: North Yorkshire
- Posts: 599
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Re: Adaptive Cruise Control + Limiter
hughmartin wrote:
Hi Folks. Having been away from the Disco scene for a couple of years, I have just traded in my Defender for a new D5 Metropolitan. I'm trying to get to grips with the adaptive cruise control and adaptive speed limiter. Am I correct in saying that I can't have both active at the same time? If so, WHY have LR done this??? My wife's Ford Kuga has both and both can be operating together. It means you can drive with cruise control selected and not worry about fiddling around readjusting the selected speed when entering a new speed limit area. It just does it seamlessly for you. This seems a big omission.
Correct, it is one or the other. The cruise control set speed doesn't automatically adjust itself but the speed limiter does. Annoyingly, however, sometimes the speed limiter detects the signs at the entry to side roads and so slams on the brakes while you're cruising at 60mph but go past a side street with a 30mph limit!
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- 747_JK
- Member Since: 26 Jun 2018
- Location: England
- Posts: 417
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That's a real bug-bear @JonM. Or on the continent, it can pick up signs which are intended for other classes of vehicles, and do similar.
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- gavsta
- Member Since: 25 Jan 2022
- Location: Hertfordshire
- Posts: 147
Re: Adaptive Cruise Control + Limiter
JonM wrote:
Correct, it is one or the other. The cruise control set speed doesn't automatically adjust itself but the speed limiter does. Annoyingly, however, sometimes the speed limiter detects the signs at the entry to side roads and so slams on the brakes while you're cruising at 60mph but go past a side street with a 30mph limit!
TBH, I'm delighted that the two features are not integrated. With my previous car they were, and it would drive me crazy when sitting on a motorway, a sign on a slip road, or an out-of-date set of roadworks in the nav database, would cause the car to suddenly brake.
In fairness, however, around city dual carriageways which can regularly vary between 30, 40 and 50mph, it could be useful. Yet, accelerator sense will always result in smoother progress, than cruise control braking.
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