Just got my 2016!

Congratulation!

DRCC will become a necessity. I absolutely love it. Yeah, I brake before totally relying on it to stop me.

The nav volume is adjustable on the nav set up screen. Also, you can hit the speaker icon on the display to have the directions repeated for you.

 

The HUD display is adjustable. You can move it up, down, left, or right...

 

congrats, all the best!

 

Yes! It is a wonderful little car. The nav unit displays great turning aids in the HUD display.

 

Read the owner's manual.

It's very riveting and exciting.

Only 800 pages.
(And another 250 pages for the Nav manual.)

When my navigation lady speaks to me, the radio temporarily cuts off. She overrides the radio. She likes to be in charge.

 

I find the same with the NAV system. When I set it to go somewhere I know the tried and true best route, it tries to convince me to go another way. I just go the way I want and let her "catch up". Sometimes I wonder about the route when I am going somewhere I don't know the way - but I don't have enough info to override.
The cruise control IS awesome!

 

Which begs the question... if we know the way to go, why are we using the NAV? :lol:

That being said, I use it sometimes just to get an ETA . I also have found that the NAV factors in traffic to the route and may be telling me a faster way to get there.

I find that the NAV voice is plenty loud unless I'm really cranking the music. I do wish it would work with the music and turn down when instructions are given but it's not a deal breaker.

The DRCC is probably my favorite thing on my car. My wife doesn't trust it even though we've used it a lot. She swears she wouldn't use it if she was driving. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I don't know what to say. I've used it over hundreds of miles and many hours. It's great. I admit it makes me nervous when traffic speeds are dropping suddenly. Sometimes I override it and sometimes I let it do its thing. It has not let me down. But, one must remain vigilant. The driver has ultimate responsibility.


iPhone ?

 

Traffic. The NAV helps with traffic and re-routing due to delays - but only if you put a destination in.

 

If you figure that out... please post. I've performed a similar search and wasted a great deal of time. I'd also like to turn off that inane message that is displayed every single solitary time you start the car. I've never read a pillow tag either.

 

Don't you just love this car? I've used the adaptive cruise control and it works great! The manual suggests you do not use it in heavy traffic which is probably a good idea and keep in mind that anytime you give control of your vehicle to an automatic feature, you need to pay attention and not assume it will always work perfectly. So far, it has worked quite well for me. The blind-spot sensors work well when a vehicle is next to you but do not always light up when a motorcycle passes so be careful out there!

 

When is traffic "heavy" enough not to use DRCC? It's a subjective word. I can understand why Toyota want to cover themselves in the manual with provisos like this, but it's very much a matter of personal judgement isn't it.

Also, is it really safer in heavy traffic to rely solely on the driver and relatively slow human reaction times or is DRCC plus careful driver attention safer? What do others think?

Only risk I can foresee of using it is a false positive where it brakes unexpectedly and unnecessarily. Is there a way to defeat this in this event - does this cancel if you put your foot on the throttle/accelerator/gas pedal?

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You can override it trying to brake by using the throttle. I've noticed that some undisciplined, thoughtless, drivers will slow before an exit, and DRCC will slow, and sometimes brake, but if I think I've got space and can let the gap close as I go past the back of their exiting car, I'll keep the speed up with my throttle, or stop it slowing as much as it's inclined to do. If someone pulls in in front of me, I just watch that it "sees" that vehicle in time - so far, it's done well.

And I use it in tight/heavy traffic - I find it's great in bumper to bumper traffic around an accident or roadworks - BUT, you have to be alert like you normally would. It generally gets it spot on, keeps a nice gap in front and takes the stress out of that sort of driving.

The only frustration is that it's a little slow to take off from a traffic light - you supposedly touch the accelerator and it'll start and follow the car in front - which it does, but seems a little slow with the uptake sometimes, and then catches up. I'm using NORMAL Mode - I might try it with POWER Mode and see if that's any better.

 

Thanks. Interesting. Is the slowness at traffic lights to do with the distance setting? Have you experimented with that?

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Generally I use the closest setting, except in light open road driving.

 

I think you are right in that Toyota will provide some means of protecting themselves from potential lawsuits but personally I do think that human reaction is better in heavy traffic because the sensors on the car do not "see" everything going on around the vehicle while the driver does. As traffic gets heavy, people seem to push harder to get around others and make quick lane changes so you often have to make quick adjustments. When the traffic isn't intense and you have a more space, the DRCC is pleasant to use and slows down very gradually when you approach a vehicle in front of you going at a slower speed. The driver should however be diligent, attentive, and ready to respond as always.