Advanced Driving Hub

sussex2 wrote:Perhps more advertising and greater common knowledge may helpl

Ah, just like "common" sense

General HC knowledge is so woeful in the UK that I can't imagine how TPTB thought changing it would make any difference at all.

Horse wrote:LOL @ JonT

It wasn't entirely in jest, it was one of the reasons I bought my first auto. And then you can transfer the skill to LFB in a manual...

Horse wrote:Any hints, tips, thoughts on using it?

Take the opportunity to learn to left foot brake?

Avoid letting it creep against the brake (either be moving fast enough to be feet off, or be stopped). Otherwise have a play. In "Drive" it's likely to hunt very high gears very quickly. Sport might be better for progressive driving. All depends how the mapping has been done. I have two au...

hir wrote:However, as far as Ford is concerned it seems to me that this is yet another example of the car manufacturers using everyone on the road as Guinea pigs in their quest to achieve fully autonomous vehicles.

/efa, since it's not just the punters in the Ford car who will be affected if it goes wrong.

Why are we even allowing this? It flies in the face of all the human factors research that says humans are terrible at monitoring things that /mostly/ don't need their attention :roll: :hit: I'm not even sure what benefits it offers if you have to pay a meaningful amount of attention. Is keeping you...

Don't tell me if you can autopark a car, you can't tell the driver they aren't overtaking and need to move left :roll: Probably prevented by limitations imposed by sensor range. Radar cruise control? A few seconds ahead in the same lane. Moving left? Probably requires awareness of traffic 12-14 sec...

Well, legitimising passing either side would free things up, but if folk are so inattentive they can't even be bothered to move left when there's a lane free, I'd much rather have them off the roads altogether. I believe there's a thing called a "bus" or "train" if you don't wan...

There would of course be the increased congestion caused by loss of a running lane, but other traffic management aspects such as variable speed limit gantries would probably remain, so a ‘reverted’ SM may still flow better than before it became smart. Agressively ticketing MLMs would make a signifi...

There would of course be the increased congestion caused by loss of a running lane, but other traffic management aspects such as variable speed limit gantries would probably remain, so a ‘reverted’ SM may still flow better than before it became smart. Agressively ticketing MLMs would make a signifi...