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Default OT - Car Specifications

On Sun, 05 Jun 2016 10:21:09 +0100, Mike Barnes wrote:

The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 05/06/16 09:10, DerbyBorn wrote:
Bob Eager wrote in
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On Sat, 04 Jun 2016 21:15:15 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

Bull****. Its fantastic for knowing you are not exceeding stupid
lefty**** speed limits. set it to the limit, and engage it until you
need to slow down : 30, 40 , 50 , 60, 79. It works for all of them
so you don't need to keep looking at the speedo, but can actually
watch out for more hazards than just speed cameras.

It's OK, but an automatic speed limiter is better.

If I'm in one of those areas with constantly changing speed limits
(and cameras) I just engage the limiter and let it sort it all out.

In practice, I do know what the limit is all the time, but it
protects me against a mistake.




Many Cruise Controls have a "Speed Limiter" Setting.

Mine doesn't. Wish it did.


I'm uneasy about the idea of a speed limiter when, in an emergency, I
might want to exceed any limit I'd set, without the faff of disabling
the limiter.


There's a kick-down override.


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