Cars We Drive!

[brokencycle]

Took the sofa on a road trip around PNW. It’s way easier to drive than the S3 for sure.

V6 + quiet cabin + lane keep assist and radar cruise = heaven

Not as cool as @patrick_b slalom but this is more everyday car pic


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The first time I did a long drive with radar cruise + lane keeping was amazing. It made an 8+ hour drive so much less stressful.

 

[Omega Male]

The first time I did a long drive with radar cruise + lane keeping was amazing. It made an 8+ hour drive so much less stressful.

Yeah I've got to say the wife's Genesis GV80 is the best road trip car I've ever road tripped in. The ACC and lane following is so well implemented that the main risk is dozing off while you're doing 85 mph down I-75.

 

[javyn]

Just got a '25 Camry hybrid. So far like it a lot but it's aggravating to have to manually reconnect my phone to it every time I start up. Where the hell is the option for auto connect lol

 

[flipstah]

The first time I did a long drive with radar cruise + lane keeping was amazing. It made an 8+ hour drive so much less stressful.

Agreed. That was my first time with this combination and made the drive less arduous for sure

 

[patrick_b]

Agreed. That was my first time with this combination and made the drive less arduous for sure

The one feature I don't want to ever live without is Audi's Traffic Jam assist. It's makes stop and go slogs so much less painful.

 

[flipstah]

Underrated first-world feature: Brake Hold.

whoa.

 

[double00]

Underrated first-world feature: Brake Hold.

whoa.

are you driving stick ? i struggled to adapt to brake hold tbh

 

[otc]

The first time I did a long drive with radar cruise + lane keeping was amazing. It made an 8+ hour drive so much less stressful.

Yeah, #1 feature set I miss having in our cars.

And I've said it before, but anyone who hates lane keep assist is likely a ****** driver or has an attitude problem (barring some early on really terrible implementations). It is only correcting you because you are veering and the occasional correction is only annoying because you don't like being informed that you're bad at something.

Sure, if you're engaging in some more spirited driving or something and are using the lane differently, that's a different story, but then just turn it off. It is made for long highway drives and the like.

edit: I even went down the rabbit hole on how to add it to my car...but it was a bit too expensive and relied on a bit too shady of a step where you had to have some guy in Lithuania on Instagram recode your car because the dealer wouldn't do it for you.

 

[Piobaire]

I've been saying here for years that adaptive cruise is a game changer.

 

[flipstah]

are you driving stick ? i struggled to adapt to brake hold tbh

I hate it on manuals but when I’mlazy with an automatic it’s nice

 

[HRoi]

Wait…brake hold makes no sense on automatics, because don’t all of them creep forward anyway? At least the torque converter ones….

Whereas brake hold is perfect for (sucky) manual drivers who will let the car roll backward while trying to engage the clutch

 

[double00]

Wait…brake hold makes no sense on automatics, because don’t all of them creep forward anyway? At least the torque converter ones….

Whereas brake hold is perfect for (sucky) manual drivers who will let the car roll backward while trying to engage the clutch

that was exactly my issue , the brake hold holds too long ( in the jeep it's 2 sec i think ) .

what i used to do on steep hills at a stop in my old taco was :

- pull the parking brake
- engage the clutch
- stand on the clutch and engage the throttle
- release the p-brake whilst simultaneously releasing clutch
- accelerate
- get booty

then i tried it on the jeep and it was like :

- pull parking brake
- engage the clutch
- stupid accelerator latency
- try to drive away with brake hold holding
- stall like a *****

 

[brokencycle]

Wait…brake hold makes no sense on automatics, because don’t all of them creep forward anyway? At least the torque converter ones….

Whereas brake hold is perfect for (sucky) manual drivers who will let the car roll backward while trying to engage the clutch

Isn't brake hold on automatics so you can take your foot off the brake?

 

[Texasmade]

Yeah, #1 feature set I miss having in our cars.

And I've said it before, but anyone who hates lane keep assist is likely a ****** driver or has an attitude problem (barring some early on really terrible implementations). It is only correcting you because you are veering and the occasional correction is only annoying because you don't like being informed that you're bad at something.

Sure, if you're engaging in some more spirited driving or something and are using the lane differently, that's a different story, but then just turn it off. It is made for long highway drives and the like.

edit: I even went down the rabbit hole on how to add it to my car...but it was a bit too expensive and relied on a bit too shady of a step where you had to have some guy in Lithuania on Instagram recode your car because the dealer wouldn't do it for you.

I hate LKA and ACC and I don't have it in any of my cars. The only thing I really like is surround view park assist and rear view camera.

 

[double00]

Isn't brake hold on automatics so you can take your foot off the brake?

on most automatics the car is torquing forward without the foot on the brake ( edit : or the gas ) , up a steep hill maybe it's an issue ? but an auto would be in gear forward so I shouldn't think it would roll backward .

in a manual there is a chance of rolling back while in neutral . this actually happened in my HS which was in/on a canyon and had pretty steep driveways , somebody missed a shift and rolled backwards onto the top of the car behind it