Cruise Control

[Captainfieldmouse]

Daft newbie idiot here!
Just taken delivery of my HS Trophy PHEV and in the process of introducing myself to it! One initial issue is that the user manual on the iSMART app seems to be very generic and many of the images of the button controls (particularly on the steering wheel) bear little resemblance to my car. For instance how do you set cruise control on the new 2025 model?
TIA

 

[Eponemuss]

Page 247 of this manual on the MG Website. MG HS PHEV

 

[Bradam]

Page 247 of this manual on the MG Website. MG HS PHEV

Sometimes I think that developers who tune car systems never use them. I do. That's why I wanted to share a few observations about the (intelligent) adaptive cruise control (IACC) that works with the Lane Keeping Assist (LAC). Overall, these systems in the second-generation MG HS PHEV are fine.

However, two things annoy me:

1. The IACC and LKA systems completely deactivate with even the slightest press of the brake pedal. This behavior increases the risk because a driver accustomed to automatic braking with the lane keeping assist system engaged forgets that the system deactivates if they reflexively press the brake pedal, for example, in a traffic jam, and fails to apply the brakes again after reaching it (the lane keeping assist system deactivates after the first press of the brake). The solution to this problem is simple and obvious. Pressing the brake pedal should only reset the active cruise control speed, or CC. The distance and lane keeping system should be active at all times and, in fact, should be the default setting.
2. The speed setting method in the CC system is poor. Why would anyone program a dual joystick: increase (+) and decrease (-) the speed, first in increments of +/- 1 km/h, and the second with a long press of +/- 5 km/h? The first method is, to put it mildly, quite absurd, because who, for example, wants to drive at an exact speed of, say, 81 km/h or 99 km/h on the highway? It would be much more useful to use the car's current speed or the speed limit from Google Maps as the target speed (it's worth noting that speed limit recognition in GM doesn't work properly and should be disabled). The speed setting could be achieved by pressing the joystick from above.

 

[Eponemuss]

With regard to your last sentence, that’s what mine does. Pressing the joystick in sets the current speed as the limit.

 

[Bradam]

With regard to your last sentence, that’s what mine does. Pressing the joystick in sets the current speed as the limit.

We didn't quite understand each other. It's true that pressing the joystick sets the cruise control speed to the current value. The problem is that it can't be lowered this way, because you first have to slow down using the brake pedal, which completely deactivates the system, as mentioned in point 1. It should be added that easily lowering the cruise control setting is more necessary for safety reasons than raising it. We encounter this situation every time, for example, when passing a speed limit sign on a highway or having to exit onto a lower category road.