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Originally Posted by DoubleF
Have you done any long trips with autopilot yet?
I personally don't "need" to upgrade to a car with cruise control with lane awareness, ACC and automatic adjustment of speed to the listed speed limit. But it would be nice to have so that I don't feel as tired after a long 6+ hour drive. I don't need an EV for this feature. I have a friend who drives back and forth between the Maritimes and Calgary a few times a year and have claimed these features in their ICE vehicles are the only reason why they consider it. I knew others that drove round trips from Calgary to Winnipeg regularly without this feature.
40+ hours one way (round trip) several times a year is insane. But with those features in a vehicle, I'd love to try.
Tossing the kids in the car around midnight and then waking up in Kelowna/Vancouver with my wife and I not worrying as much being awake for most of that trip to keep the car in check would be a pretty awesome luxury.
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Whether its Tesla Autopilot or the advanced cruise control in cars like the Genesis that was just mentioned, this is one of the features you don't think you need but once you've experienced it, you can't live without.
It's just such a luxury, it feels like your car is chauffering you. You can indeed sit back and reach for something in the other seat, enjoy your coffee, and just take a portion of your mind off it mentally. If you hate rush hour traffic and traffic jams this is a game changer. Its very hard to explain unless you've experienced it in the drivers seat. Its like that feeling when you sit down on your sofa and you just relax...except your car is still moving to the destination and managing all the little starts and stops of a traffic jam and you don't need to feel stress. You are still attentive and ready to take over a split second if you need to, but there's just part of your mind that no-longer needs to be focused on all the minutiae of steering and feathering the gas and brake constantly. Its like going to an OLED TV, you don't know until you've tried and then it's hard to go back.
I rarely drive out of town or long distances. I use autopilot every day driving to the store or driving to work.