Cruise Control in 2023 Prius LE AWD

I have had my new 2023 Prius LE AWD for about a week and there's something about the cruise control that I can't figure out.

Let's suppose I'm driving through town, the speed limit is 35 mph and I have set the cruise control to 35. Works great. But then I come to the limits of the town, I'm now on a rural road where the speed limit is 55, and I can accelerate to 55 using the gas pedal, but how do I set the cruise control to 55? I can press the + button 20 times (which I don't think is a good solution) or I can hold down the + sign until the cruise control gets to 55 (again, I don't like this solution). There must be another easier way to have the cruise control "jump" from 35 to my current speed 55. How do I do that?

Now also, the opposite scenario is something I haven't figure out yet. I have the cruise control at 55 and I come to a town where the speed limit is 35. I can slow down using the brakes or by just turning off the cruise control, but how do I set the cruise control from 55 to 35 in one easy "jump"?

 

Thanks! I have a road trip this weekend, I'm sure I will give that a try!

 

Lots of possibilities! I will try these out, I have a road trip later today!

 

Yesterday, I drove over 300 miles in my new Prius LE AWD, and tried out the cruise control changing of speeds as discussed above. When I slowed down from highway speed to about 35, a single push of the Driving Assist Switch set the speed properly to 35. This happened consistently and without exception worked properly.

But in the other direction, accelerating from 35 to 55, I found the results inconsistent — sometimes a single push of the Driving Assist Switch worked to set the speed at 55, but other times it required me to push the button twice. Perhaps I have missed some key fact in my understanding, but this inconsistency is bothersome, and requires me to take my eyes off the road more than I would like.

I did not try the suggestions where you can use the RES/+ button yet.

 

Coming back to this a month later, I still haven't figured out how to consistently handle the case where cruise control is set at 35, then you get on a highway and want to set cruise control to 55. I have paid careful attention to the results of my pressing the buttons in these situations, and it still seems to me that there are times when pressing the Driving Assist Switch once gets the job done, and other times when pressing the Driving Assist Switch twice is needed to get the job done. There are also situations when pressing the RES+ button gets the job done, and other times when it does not get the job done.

I cannot figure out a logic to this. I cannot figure out why Toyota would design and implement features that behave differently at different times in what appears to be the exact same context. In the back of my mind I still believe there is some logic to this, it doesn't make sense to design features this way (and I have never experienced this type of inconsistency so noticeably on my other cars). But I still can't figure it out. It is very frustrating. If anyone has advice not already mentioned, please speak up!