Clever car..

[5teep]

I freely admit this is probably in the manual but I'm a guy so I've not even opened it yet..

You can set a speed limit manually or have it "automatic", I discovered today that automatic reads the speed limit signs and sets your limit at that. No more nagging when driving in 20mph zones...

 

[Alb]

I don't think it actively reads the signs when it does this as I drove down a road where the limit was reduced from 40mph to 30mph at least a year ago and it still used 40 as the limit.

 

[5teep]

I watched it today, set it in a 40, went into a 20, back to 40, then 30 then 20, as soon as the speed sign info came on screen the speed limiter dropped to match.

My MG5 will not do that, it doesn't have the function and doesn't recognise 20mph signs.

 

[TimothyN]

It does read the signs, but it's very bad at recognising which sign is relevant. It loves to see speed limits on side roads, rather than on the road you are on. It also doesn't recognise 20 painted on the road.

I tried it on automatic speed limiter and it is awful, slamming on the brakes because a side turning is 20, and surging when it sees a faster sign. Horrible.

 

[sammoj]

It does read the signs, but it's very bad at recognising which sign is relevant. It loves to see speed limits on side roads, rather than on the road you are on. It also doesn't recognise 20 painted on the road.

I tried it on automatic speed limiter and it is awful, slamming on the brakes because a side turning is 20, and surging when it sees a faster sign. Horrible.

They are all the same tbh, my Kona was really good at picking side road speeds up.

 

[5teep]

It does read the signs, but it's very bad at recognising which sign is relevant. It loves to see speed limits on side roads, rather than on the road you are on. It also doesn't recognise 20 painted on the road.

I tried it on automatic speed limiter and it is awful, slamming on the brakes because a side turning is 20, and surging when it sees a faster sign. Horrible.

I think that's ACC you tried. Automatic limiter just stops the car going faster then the speed set.

 

[TimothyN]

I stand by what I wrote. If you are limited by 20, and it changes to 30, you surge, and vice versa.

 

[tsedge]

I stand by what I wrote. If you are limited by 20, and it changes to 30, you surge, and vice versa.

Presumably because your foot is already on the accelerator.

I used manual speed limiting on my MG4 and it works well, let's me avoid recognition problems and avoid speeding at the same time.

 

[RhythMick]

It does read the signs, but it's very bad at recognising which sign is relevant. It loves to see speed limits on side roads, rather than on the road you are on. It also doesn't recognise 20 painted on the road.

I tried it on automatic speed limiter and it is awful, slamming on the brakes because a side turning is 20, and surging when it sees a faster sign. Horrible.

Totally agree - I don't use it for that reason. Close call where the car slammed the anchors on when it saw a 20 sign on a side road, the HGV behind me wasn't happy.