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Originally Posted by TorqueDog
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.
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Oh that’s definitely true - you can’t turn off the adaptive settings.
A not-insubstantial percentage of the population doesn’t use cruise control. Adaptive or not, they aren’t comfortable with a system that they feel dulls their perception on the road.