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I took delivery of a fully loaded Badlands, yesterday. I don't have much to say about it that hasn't already been said. I'm loving so far. However, I haven't seen that much said about its more advanced driving features so I thought I'd share some impressions.
I went into the settings and activated the Intelligent adaptive cruise control. Once that is activated, you can press a single button on the steering wheel and the system does the following:
A few notes:
I went into the settings and activated the Intelligent adaptive cruise control. Once that is activated, you can press a single button on the steering wheel and the system does the following:
- Engages the adaptive cruise control
- Sets the speed to the current road's speed limit
- Starts the lane centering steering
A few notes:
- There's a setting that can automatically add a buffer of 1-5mph on top of the current speed limit.
- You can still manually adjust the speed setpoint up and down, but the car will adjust the speed again when the speed limit changes.
- When you get notified to keep your hands on the wheel, the car continues the assisted steering for some period of time. This is nice, because my last car disengaged the steering simultaneously with the notification.
- Acceleration when the speed limit changes can be abrupt at lower speeds sometimes, I wish there was a way to lower it. I had an awkward situation where the speed limit increased as a cop was passing me and my car lunged forward as if I was trying to speed past the cop, lol.
The standard Copilot360 has the lane-keeping system.
The Lane-keeping System is a safety feature that detects when your vehicle is drifting out of the lane. It can be configured to provide an alert and/or a steering correction to assist in keeping your car from veering into the next lane over.
The Copilot360 Assist+ package has Adaptive Cruise Control with Stop and Go with Lane Centering.
ACC is standard radar based cruise control that most people are familiar with.
Stop and Go means ACC continues working even if vehicle in front of you comes to a complete stop. In older vehicles, ACC would cutoff below a certain speed and the driver needs to bring the car to a stop.
Lane centering is a convenience feature that actually steers the vehicle for you, keeping it in the center of the lane. However, it's far from a full self driving vehicle. The driver's hands need to remain on the steering wheel. It doesn't do anything fancy like lane changes.
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