20-07-2018, 02:22 AM
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I think I have cruise control turned on for 90% of my driving even in suburban areas. All I have to worry about is steering around other cars. Even driving to Canberra on the Hume it can be working for hours at a time and I use the +/- control on the steering wheel as an accelerator when the limit changes from 100 to 110 to 80 or 90 for example.It doesn't work at all below 40km but it is particularly handy for those 40kph school zones. The cruise control on my Isuzu is not as good as that on my previous car because it doesn't remember the last setting and forgets everything once you stop (cheap tradie's vehicle see).
However still one of the best devices ever fitted to a car in my opinion.
20-07-2018, 10:13 AM
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Originally Posted by Bruce
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I think I have cruise control turned on for 90% of my driving even in suburban areas. All I have to worry about is steering around other cars. Even driving to Canberra on the Hume it can be working for hours at a time and I use the +/- control on the steering wheel as an accelerator when the limit changes from 100 to 110 to 80 or 90 for example.It doesn't work at all below 40km but it is particularly handy for those 40kph school zones. The cruise control on my Isuzu is not as good as that on my previous car because it doesn't remember the last setting and forgets everything once you stop (cheap tradie's vehicle see).
However still one of the best devices ever fitted to a car in my opinion.
Are your road signs in km now? We are still desperately clinging on to our miles. Perhaps I'm biased, but I can envisage miles, yards, feet better than metric, although I use mm for small and accurate measurements. 3/32 of an inch is too difficult for me.
20-07-2018, 11:21 AM
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Originally Posted by JBR
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Thanks. I might look into that, though I still think it's probably not worth bothering with.
It's a bit of an odd feeling at first and you feel as though you are flying along out of control but it just needs getting used to. Clever really, when you think you can set it at a certain speed and the car will stick to that even up or down a steep hill.
20-07-2018, 11:45 AM
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Originally Posted by JBR
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Of course, but you have an efficient road system in the land of Oz.Are your road signs in km now? We are still desperately clinging on to our miles. Perhaps I'm biased, but I can envisage miles, yards, feet better than metric, although I use mm for small and accurate measurements. 3/32 of an inch is too difficult for me.
20-07-2018, 12:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Longdogs
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It's really useful when you get those ten mile roadworks with a 50 speed limit and average speed cameras. Once you settle into a bit of space, just set the cruise control at 49 and there's no chance of losing concentration and going over the limit. If the traffic slows, you can use your brake as usual. i'm not sure if all makes are the same but mine also has a speed switch so you can adjust your speed up or down from the steering wheel.It's a bit of an odd feeling at first and you feel as though you are flying along out of control but it just needs getting used to. Clever really, when you think you can set it at a certain speed and the car will stick to that even up or down a steep hill.
20-07-2018, 01:19 PM
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Originally Posted by JBR
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Of course, but you have an efficient road system in the land of Oz.Are your road signs in km now? We are still desperately clinging on to our miles. Perhaps I'm biased, but I can envisage miles, yards, feet better than metric, although I use mm for small and accurate measurements. 3/32 of an inch is too difficult for me.
The mistake the UK made when going metric (I mean, I was still at school when it started) was that they allowed both systems to run in parallel eg on the weather forecast they had both Celsius and Fahrenheit. Where was the incentive to change? Here from the day it changed the old system was not allowed at all anywhere so even people like me who objected very strongly to metric got used to it very quickly because we had no choice.
Now, of course I am so glad they did that way and that I was forced to change. Now I have absolutely no idea what 85°F equates to and my one remaining tape measure with both inches and metric on it is the bane of my life.
As for road signs they changed them all virtually overnight, my speedo doesn't have one of those silly dials with mph and kph cluttering it up. It just has kph.
If Britain could change every gas stove and regulator to natural gas on one night you wouldn't would have thought changing all the road signs was much of a challenge but apparently it was beyond the powers that be.
There are three things Australia did very well and which the world should have copied. Metrication, Industrial Relations/wage fixing and the Electoral System.
20-07-2018, 01:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Bruce
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There are three things Australia did very well and which the world should have copied. Metrication, Industrial Relations/wage fixing and the Electoral System.
That's true democracy.
20-07-2018, 01:55 PM
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Originally Posted by JBR
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I don't disagree, but in my ideal Britain we'd have proportional representation and legally binding referenda.That's true democracy.
20-07-2018, 01:59 PM
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Originally Posted by Longdogs
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And ideally, all the Royal hangers-on would have to pay speeding and parking fines like the rest of us.
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