What are the reasons for NOT using Cruise Control?

[turnkey4099]

Did someone say convoy.

Brings up memories of closign down a small detachment in the AF at Kinross AFB (I tdhink it has been renamed since) Our headquarters was Kelly AFT San Antonio. Orders came to close the detachment. We were monitoring military communications working out of 2 semi dtrailers. Or designation ws ...Radio Squadron Mobile. As such HQ wanted a demonstration of the Mobile part. We tore down all the additions that had been added (scabbed on), calle motor pool for our semi tractors. Detachment had been in place for years. Answer from Motor Poll "What tractors". Sorted it out and the Motor Pool had lost the records, didn't know who the two tractors belonged to so had canabalized them for parts. Move was made on a RR flat car.

 

[Egon]

Depends, how many vehicles in the convoy?

Yes; that would be a major factor.

 

[Egon]

The last vehicle has to travel 49.75 MPH,,,, because the first vehicle has a speedometer that is .25 MPH out of calibration.

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:laughing:

At that speed the last in line may arrive tomorrow.:thumbsup:

 

[LD1]

That's it in a nutshell, good description of the problem.

Then the problem is the person passing. Not the person slightly varying speed.

Once that passer gets around the person varying speed, and I resume my minor fluctuation, of 52-58 as used in the example, and you are a few hundred feet back with Cc set at 55, I am not gonna cause you issues. The guy passing and wanting to go faster than the both of us is the issue.

If you don't like my driving, go around. Or stop and get a soda then resume your trip.

 

[LD1]

Maybe the problem is the CC ****'s.

Downshifting going up hill, and downshifting for engine braking is not as fuel efficient as a little anticipation.

Burning more fuel is polluting our planet.

Pollution causes global warming.

Global warming causes the polar ice caps to melt.

No polar ice results in the extinction of polar bears.

No polar bears results in an over population of seals.

Through evolution, seals adapt to live and move around on land as we once did.

Once on land they quickly become the dominate species, adapting to eat humans, which is a widely plentiful food.

Do you CC ****'s really want to be the reason this becomes "planet of the seals"

 

[k0ua]

Apparently folk just have a misunderstanding about what cruise control is for. It was intended for the wide open road. In town you never know when a kid will come chasing a ball or dog out directly into one of your wheel wells. When your foot is already at the ready modulating the throttle, it is a much easier and faster change to the brake than to have your foot relaxed and resting comfortably on the floorboard. To go through a school zone with cruise on is moronic. A kid in my class was hit and killed 30 feet from the front door of the school I went to in 2nd grade.

This thread makes me think many members will one day be the old man that set the cruise on his RV and went in back to make coffee.

But by then we will have self driving RV's, and it will be OK to go in back and make coffee..:laughing:

 

[Sysop]

If you don't like my driving, go around. Or stop and get a soda then resume your trip.

:thumbsup: Amen Brother! Perhaps stop at a doc for some anti-anxiety meds if someone's driving makes you mad. Road rage is for morons, idiots, and losers. There's a lot bigger things to worry about in the average person's life than the miscellaneous drivers on the road. If the way other folk drive is a major concern in your life, you are very well off indeed.

 

[Sysop]

But by then we will have self driving RV's, and it will be OK to go in back and make coffee..:laughing:

Perhaps, but according to what I've read the problem is with folk; they're not going to know or care about limitations or proper usage of the systems.

If all vehicles were auto-driving, it still doesn't mean all are going to be able to maintain an exact speed in all conditions. If it were anywhere near possible to get everyone to travel the same speed, we wouldn't just have a max speed limit posted. They would make a mandated speed to be traveling in each lane and any variances of +/- 1 or 2 MPH would be a citable offense.

 

[MossRoad]

Same here but my cc won't hold speed back going downhill. One street I drive is a constant slope down for about 1/2 mile, have to be on the brakes constantly to keep 25 (20 in the school zone in the middle of the slope) so I drop down a gear in the slush box.

No, mine won't hold a downhill either in drive. But if I downshift to a gear that would slow me below the speed limit with engine compression, then the cruise control will accelerate the engine and then it'll hold your speed down the hill, so-to-speak.

 

[MossRoad]

Did someone say convoy.

I says, "Pig Pen, this here's the Rubber Duck.
"And I'm about to put the hammer down."

But some dufus has his cruise control set at 55. :laughing:



Was the dark of the moon on the sixth of June
In a Kenworth pullin' logs
Cab-over Pete with a reefer on
And a Jimmy haulin' hogs
We is headin' for bear on I-one-oh
'Bout a mile outta Shaky Town
I says, "Pig Pen, this here's the Rubber Duck.
"And I'm about to put the hammer down."
'Cause we got a little ol' convoy
Rockin' through the night.
Yeah, we got a little ol' convoy,
Ain't she a beautiful sight?
Come on and join our convoy
Ain't nothin' gonna get in our way.
We gonna roll this truckin' convoy
'Cross the U-S-A.
Convoy!
By the time we got into Tulsa Town,
We had eighty-five trucks in all.
But they's a roadblock up on the cloverleaf,
And them bears was wall-to-wall.
Yeah, them smokies is thick as bugs on a bumper;
They even had a bear in the air!
I says, "Callin' all trucks, this here's the Duck.
"We about to go a-huntin' bear."
'Cause we got a great big convoy
Rockin' through the night.
Yeah, we got a great big convoy,
Ain't she a beautiful sight?
Come on and join our convoy
Ain't nothin' gonna get in our way.
We gonna roll this truckin' convoy
'Cross the U-S-A.
Convoy!
Well, we rolled up Interstate 44
Like a rocket sled on rails.
We tore up all of our swindle sheets,
And left 'em settin' on the scales.
By the time we hit that Chi-town,
Them bears was a-gettin' smart:
They'd brought up some reinforcements
From the Illinois National Guard.
There's armored cars, and tanks, and jeeps,
And rigs of ev'ry size.
Yeah, them chicken coops was full'a bears
And choppers filled the skies.
Well, we shot the line and we went for broke
With a thousand screamin' trucks
An' eleven long-haired Friends a' Jesus
In a chartreuse micra-bus.
Well, we laid a strip for the Jersey shore
Prepared to cross the line
I could see the bridge was lined with bears
But I didn't have a dog-goned dime.
I says, "Pig Pen, this here's the Rubber Duck.
"We just ain't a-gonna pay no toll."
So we crashed the gate doing ninety-eight
I says "Let them truckers roll, 10-4."
'Cause we got a mighty convoy
Rockin' through the night.
Yeah, we got a mighty convoy,
Ain't she a beautiful sight?
Come on and join our convoy
Ain't nothin' gonna get in our way.
We gonna roll this truckin' convoy
'Cross the U-S-A.
Convoy! Convoy! Convoy! Convoy!


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