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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
It’s worth remembering that if you have an adaptive cruise system and actually use it, you are in the vast minority of drivers.
The majority of customers fall into one of three categories:
1. They’ve never heard of it
2. They don’t care
3. They find the very idea unsettling and don’t trust it
It’s virtually never a deciding factor as to why someone goes with X over Y.
All this is to say, I don’t expect widespread adoption and acceptance of these systems at the driver level any time soon. But if your car has one and you’re not using it, give it a whirl - they’re really great for road trips.
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From my experience with Mercedes Benz, if you have adaptive cruise (Distronic or Distronic Plus), you don't have a choice, it is always adaptive. And when the system hits interference (usually between Calgary and Medicine Hat, I found), the system is disabled entirely... as in you get
no cruise control, adaptive or not. You also lose blind spot monitoring, lane-keep assist, pre-safe brake, etc. You basically go back to stability and traction control as your driver aids.
So that's one important thing to consider, a lot of these 'adaptive' features cannot operate in a legacy mode. If something interferes with the radar sensors, you get nothing until you pass the interference.