Dynamic cruise control "waiting" status

You can push up on the cruise control lever to resume following from full stop. I'm not sure if the result is quicker acceleration than pushing on the gas pedal.

 

Just watched a Toyota demo video and yes, the guy recommended using the cruise stalk, push up to resume from a stop.

Just curious, for all who have full speed DRCC, are you using it on freeway in stop and go, gridlock, the bad stuff traffic, and if so, how is it working for you??

I was thinking of posting a thread on Prius full speed CC in gridlock, but let's see how it goes.

 

If the drivers behind are getting annoyed, that just means they're most probably following way too close! When I was learning to pass my test (in the UK, back in 1968) we were taught to leave a minimum of a car's length for each 10 mph of speed, and double that in inclement conditions! (…remember at 60 mph, you're covering 88 ft per second!

 

For me it was the reason to buy the car. I use it everywhere.
I think that its great, especially for the 20 mph zones.
An inconsistency I've noticed is when the car in front makes a turn, the system dis-engages it's self, so,
first you have to keep speed with the accelerator, and a resume brings it back.

It also got fooled once, when a single lane rood split into 3 lanes with no lane lines for 20 or 30 feet, followed by lanes with lines.
The car that I was following turned to the leftmost lane.
All three lanes had cars in them waiting for a red light, an my car started an acceleration, which I killed with a tap on the brakes.

 

My question is, how reliable it is? how many "surprises" will it generate due to false positives and negatives? can I sit and relax assuming it will do its job, like a regular cruise control does, or do I need to always keep more than 1 eye open and a foot ready for the situations in which it will not do what it should because the sensors got fooled by something that seems normal instead to the driver?

 

It is the bomb !

I drove a 2012 Plug In Advanced back from San Francisco to San Diego last week and used it almost the entire 500 miles .

Had to be careful jumping back in to the the 07 Prius with normal cruise , gotta brake or plow into the car ahead.

Kenny

 

Mmmm! Well, I've never ever had that problem! (…see my previous post!)

 

I usually use two bars. My experience has been really good on the freeway at moderate to high speeds - maybe 35 to 65+ miles/hour. The car naturally adjusts to the pace of the car in front, and handles well cars changing into my lane. I never use it in the right-hand lane, because the DRCC can't anticipate cars merging onto the freeway. The experience in stop-and-go traffic is a little iffy. If the neighboring lanes are stopped but my lane is clear, the car zooms down my lane much faster than is prudent. Because the DRCC can't see in front of the preceding car, it can't anticipate slowing traffic - so it winds up accelerating into a slow-down and then braking - instead of just coasting.