By heavy traffic, I’m referring to bumper-to-bumper traffic. I’ve found that I can’t get it to stop anywhere near the car in front of me, always preferring to leave several cars of space. Sure, it’s safer that way, but it’s annoying when the person behind you is laying on the horn while people constantly cut you off.
Driving myself in those situations is generally just less stressful.
Oof, bad on your car manufacturer then. My car (Kia Niro Wind) lets me adjust the following level and it adjusts the following distance based on your speed. Bumper to bumper keeps me as close as I’d be doing it normally. Only time I need to override is getting back up to speed from a stop, it doesn’t accelerate quite fast enough for my taste and leaves room for people to cut in.
Mine lets me adjust follow distance as well, so I don’t actually blame the car. It’s just not the right feature for me when I have no idea if the car 3 lanes over is going to cut across the entire highway to take an exit at the last second. Or for when I’m zipper merging and I have the dipshit who tailgates the car merging in front of me. And so on.
By heavy traffic, I’m referring to bumper-to-bumper traffic. I’ve found that I can’t get it to stop anywhere near the car in front of me, always preferring to leave several cars of space. Sure, it’s safer that way, but it’s annoying when the person behind you is laying on the horn while people constantly cut you off.
Driving myself in those situations is generally just less stressful.
Oof, bad on your car manufacturer then. My car (Kia Niro Wind) lets me adjust the following level and it adjusts the following distance based on your speed. Bumper to bumper keeps me as close as I’d be doing it normally. Only time I need to override is getting back up to speed from a stop, it doesn’t accelerate quite fast enough for my taste and leaves room for people to cut in.
Mine lets me adjust follow distance as well, so I don’t actually blame the car. It’s just not the right feature for me when I have no idea if the car 3 lanes over is going to cut across the entire highway to take an exit at the last second. Or for when I’m zipper merging and I have the dipshit who tailgates the car merging in front of me. And so on.