Grimbo
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Today I did my first long drive in my IM5 performance and I have to say how disappointed I am with the cruise control (pilot mode).
In a nutshell - when it's trying to maintain a gap between you and the car in front, it never just eases off, it always brakes. Imagine you're in lane 2, preparing to overtake a car in lane 1, 75 yards ahead and someone else in lane 1, 50 yards ahead also pulls out into lane 2 to overtake - the IM5 will brake agressively to maintain the pre-programmed gap. You or I would just ease off the accelerator to regain a comfortable gap, the IM5 will brake agressively, always.
Imagine you're in lane 1 being overtaken and you too want to overtake the car in front... You wait for the car overtaking you to pass. You pull out behind it - the IM5 will slam on the brakes because you're now too close to the car in front! You or I would know that the car in front is moving faster than you and you're not going to hit it.
In my opinion it's borderline dangerous and certainly unuseable.
Notes...
I know you can increase or decrease the gap, I tried all 5.
I wasn't cruising in lane 2, I was overtaking safely well in advance and moving back after the overtake.
I've come from an I-Pace which had neither of these problems. It's computer seemed to understand that if the gap is increasing then it doesn't need to brake.
In a nutshell - when it's trying to maintain a gap between you and the car in front, it never just eases off, it always brakes. Imagine you're in lane 2, preparing to overtake a car in lane 1, 75 yards ahead and someone else in lane 1, 50 yards ahead also pulls out into lane 2 to overtake - the IM5 will brake agressively to maintain the pre-programmed gap. You or I would just ease off the accelerator to regain a comfortable gap, the IM5 will brake agressively, always.
Imagine you're in lane 1 being overtaken and you too want to overtake the car in front... You wait for the car overtaking you to pass. You pull out behind it - the IM5 will slam on the brakes because you're now too close to the car in front! You or I would know that the car in front is moving faster than you and you're not going to hit it.
In my opinion it's borderline dangerous and certainly unuseable.
Notes...
I know you can increase or decrease the gap, I tried all 5.
I wasn't cruising in lane 2, I was overtaking safely well in advance and moving back after the overtake.
I've come from an I-Pace which had neither of these problems. It's computer seemed to understand that if the gap is increasing then it doesn't need to brake.
