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Originally Posted by tompe
Previously at least manual cars did not have cruise control. I would have thought that it is the cruise control in automatics that give much increases safety. I do not drive much but when driving in the US it always felt safer because people used cruise control and kept a constant speed and we did not get these constant flow of overtakings that we get in Sweden for example.
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Manual cars do have cruise control. I can even give extra gas, which will cause my car to keep the cruise active but still go faster (so that when I release the pedal, my car will go decelerate to the right speed), ideal for overtaking. When I touch the brake or transmission pedal, the cruise is turned off. But like John F, I don't use the cruise a lot. People in front of me will continually change speed and thus I continually have to adjust my speed which is not why I have cruise
I prefer to use my speed limiter. Max speed is 80? I'll put it at 80. Whic means I can give gas as much as I want, but my car won't go faster (unless I put the pedal to the floor, which will overrule the limiter). If they go slower, I just release my gas pedal and I'll slow down as well. If they go faster, well, no problems then