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Originally Posted by stevej37

^^^ With the adaptive cruise on my Civic....I could do the same by setting the distance to the min.
I don't see the benefit of doing it. I usually go by my old drivers training and follow at least a car length for every 10mph.

I go by the newer standard which is 2 seconds (under normal circumstances, 3 or 4 under less ideal circumstances).

My adaptive cruise sometimes surprises me. If I have it on and it slows the car down for traffic ahead....it will stay the same distance behind until I move into an open lane. When the shift is made...the car rockets ahead until the cruise makes it stay at the speed set.

The rocketing ahead always catches me off guard.

Yep, that's how the cruise in the wife's Outback works. Slow down when you come up behind someone, and then accelerate when the space in front of you is no longer "blocked". I like it under most circumstances. I wish it would slow down a bit more gradually, but it's OK for a relatively simple system. It's the first cruise system that I've ever seen that will engage from a dead stop. I can be at a stop, let off of the brakes, and hit "resume" and the car will take off and get up to speed. Another cool feature is that if I hit resume and come to a corner, the car will stop accelerating until I straighten the steering wheel.