MG EV cruise control handling

[Dluc]

I am considering bying an MG EV ZS. However, I am a hughe user of cruise control (al roads, all trafic) used to control it from the steering wheel. I am wondering how comfortable it is with this MG seperate handle. Any experience?

 

[Gomev]

It's fine, like everything else that is different from car to car you get used to it pretty quickly.

 

[Gadget Geek]

On my test drive, it took me a while to find it as the Kona has the controls on the steering wheel. Once I'd found it though, I adapted pretty quickly.

 

[Kithmo]

Personally I think it's awkward to use because the stalk is almost hidden.

 

[Alb]

You will get used to it but it certainly isn't as easy to use as a system with wheel mounted controls.

 

[Alan]

Personally I think it's awkward to use because the stalk is almost hidden.

you get to know by feel how to use it after a few goes

 

[Slipstream]

I find it easy to use. You don't look at the pedals when driving so why difficulty with the stalk. Shows what your dolng on the dash.

 

[John G]

Yes I agree with other users. I found it strange to start with but now it's just an automatic thing to feel for the second stalk, not a problem at all.

 

[midician]

VWs have stalk based Cruise controls. I had no problems learning the new controls, albeit different from the VW Golf I transitioned from, mainly because of the new adaptive functions .

 

[Shtukka]

Once activated, how do others find the motorway ACC/lane assist experience? I do very little motorway driving and keep lane assist off most of the time. When I am on the motorway and engage ACC and lane assist I really struggle to trust the lane keep as it seems unable to stay centred(ish) in the lane, instead behaving more like sliding toward one side of the lane, then over-correcting to a gentle slide toward the other side of the lane. It's not savage over-correction, but it's unnerving that it doesn't just find the centre and stay more or less there.
How does it behave for you? How relaxed are you with it on?

 

[sparkygoat]

Once activated, how do others find the motorway ACC/lane assist experience? I do very little motorway driving and keep lane assist off most of the time. When I am on the motorway and engage ACC and lane assist I really struggle to trust the lane keep as it seems unable to stay centred(ish) in the lane, instead behaving more like sliding toward one side of the lane, then over-correcting to a gentle slide toward the other side of the lane. It's not savage over-correction, but it's unnerving that it doesn't just find the centre and stay more or less there.
How does it behave for you? How relaxed are you with it on?

I think the ZS has the same lane centering as the MG5. I find the warning vibration ( configurable) useful on motorways but I think the cost and complexity of the technology for auto centering is a bit of a waste and actually quite dangerous. I find it really unsettling because it doesn't keep you centred within boundaries but instead seems to bounce you from side to side of an allowable zone. Maybe you'd get used to it if you really persevered but sometimes the lane control gives up when the white lines fade or when it gets foggy, dark or rainy. In which case, goodbye road, hello barley field, or worse, hello 28tonner coming the opposite way. So I just don't trust it. It is clever and impressive technology though. Maybe it'll improve on the next model(s). In any case, you can't, and maybe would'nt want to go hands-free for any length of time. Probably a more dangerous that glancing at your mobile for google maps!. Maybe you should get 3points+fine if caught using lane-keeping ! In summary, it gives me the creeps. I'd rather MG spent the money on proving a heat pump to boost m/kwh in the winter.

 

[Alan]

I find it ok, but yep it doesn't stick to the middle of the lane. What I find more annoying is the message to hold the steering wheel when I am actually holding it, seems to only measure in certain places on the wheel!

 

[Kithmo]

I find it easy to use. You don't look at the pedals when driving so why difficulty with the stalk. Shows what your dolng on the dash.

Not difficult but awkward, because I don't have the chance to use it much on my daily 6 mile trips I don't get the practice.
Besides that, I'm old.

 

[Tim Green]

Kithmo, your handle says you are distinguished, like me, not old.

 

[sparkygoat]

Could have done with lane control on my rusty old Cortina Mk1. 1300cc of unbridled power ( over 50hp). It had a mind of it's own and showed no respect whatsoever for white lines. The old 1300 produced more mayonaisse than Helmans and burned more oil than petrol. Those were the good old days when steering accuracy was a luxury and only of minor interest at MOT time, along with non existent cills composed mainly of catalloy, ( cunningly disguised in Dulux household paint) and the bodily structural integrity of a damp digestive biscuit. Don't know how I survived. There was so much body roll and oversteer in that that car. Especially frightening for rear passengers. It ended it's days after a large inner tube carbuncle finally exited through the sidewall of a remould with a loud "plap-plap-plap" noise causing me to go up the first few steps of the music hall in Aberdeen. Saw my life go before me, which didnt take long as I'd not done much really. Tried and failed to jack the car up after which none of the doors would close. So here I am 40+ years later driving a fantastic red electric MG, complaining about the foibles of lane keep. I need to get a grip!

 

[Deleted member 3150]

I lost 2 consecutive girlfriends due to the minor foibles of a Sunbeam Rapier mark 3a in cream and rust. Firstly when the beautiful walnut dashboard, bristling with peeling chromed edge dials, who’s needles disappeared in the buzz of high activity, (caused by the sardonic tone of vibration) - caught fire. I recall her resplendent form disappearing from view on her exit in a haze of acrid smoke.

and secondly, I recall the sodden screaming siren, so alluring earlier, that I offered her a lift home from a Beep bop deluxe concert. There she was paddling away from the car after I hit the shinny new stretch of tarmac that turned out to be flood water bursting through both rusty wheel arches like a fire hose.
-several modern aids may have saved the day but hey-hoy.
Eventually I did find the right woman, boy that was a long enjoyable search………

 

[Gomev]

Once activated, how do others find the motorway ACC/lane assist experience? I do very little motorway driving and keep lane assist off most of the time. When I am on the motorway and engage ACC and lane assist I really struggle to trust the lane keep as it seems unable to stay centred(ish) in the lane, instead behaving more like sliding toward one side of the lane, then over-correcting to a gentle slide toward the other side of the lane. It's not savage over-correction, but it's unnerving that it doesn't just find the centre and stay more or less there.
How does it behave for you? How relaxed are you with it on?

I don't use Pilot, just ACC and do the steering myself. No tugging at the wheel, no shouting at me to keep hands on the wheel etc.

 

[awbugritt]

Call me old fashioned, because I am, or indeed a grumpy old git, guilty as charged, but the day I need lane assist is the day I stop driving. All these electronic 'aids' are just a means of enabling a driver to 'switch off' if my observations on my daily drive are any indication. Factor in the likelihood of failure some years down the line as I found recently on our Meriva which had a faulty door sensor replaced for the sum of£375.79 and the future looks expensive.

 

[Alb]

Agree with this 100%.
Perhaps there should be a separate class of license for those that can't drive without electronic assistance?

 

[Deleted member 3150]

Really? I find this automotive advancements incredibly useful, lane assist especially.

So top 10 things to do with your 10 seconds of hands free driving with lane assist on.

1. Open your sandwich pack
2. take the top off your beer
3. light up a fag
4. remove the wine cork
5. reach in the glove box from drivers seat to find your mints
6. do a short text
7. touch up your make up
8. take a picture of the car in front / behind behaving dangerously
9. take off your jacket
10. wave with both arms out of the windows screaming help the car has taken over

any other ideas?