Am I The Only One Who Hates Cruise Control?

[Area51BS]

I see so many posts regarding the desire for cruise control. I don't get it. I hate cruise control. I drive from 300 - 1000 miles a week and it is mostly highway miles.
Every car I have had for the past 15 years has had cruise control and I don't use it. I have tried to learn to like it, but it isn't going to happen. I have even tried adaptive cruise control and I hate that. The feature is mentally exhausting and irritating. Is there anyone else who does not like cruise control?

I have it and don’t use it. People drive too erratically around you.

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[Timothyd]

I live in an area notorious for speed traps, especially when travelling through smaller communities dependent upon speeding tickets for revenue. Call me crazy, but my habit is to set the CC like two mph below the posted speed and forget about it (until I see the speed has changed...again). I've had countless times when I've cruised right past a cop or state trooper, confident I'm not speeding, going happily along my way. If you live where it's a free-for-all, sure, I'd hate CC too. But I honestly think it's saved me countless times. (And I don't have $300+ dollars to be throwing away at speeding tickets, either).

Same. Except I set it 2 miles over. I'm more likely to get tickets from local speed traps than on the open road.

 

[crgator]

I like it, and usually use it on the open highway. I wish more people did. Nothing more frustrating than to be doing 75 on the Interstate, catching up with the car in front of you, then as you change lanes to pass, they're suddenly no longer doing 72 but are now 77. Then, as you concede to their increased speed, you go back to the lane you were in, then they're doing 72 again.. When you finally say enough of this BS, and speed up to 80 and get around them, they slow down again. If they'd just set their cruise that wouldn't be happening.

 

[Snowbird]

Cruise control and AC are the only must have features for me.
I use it all the time.
With that said the CC must have buttons that change the speed with each push by one mph and a read out on the dash of what that speed is.
The CC on my CR-V is like that but my wifes Prius is a stalk and is not user friendly.

 

[YazYaz]

There are 3 of you in the USA who don't like cruise control. Where in the world do you find all those vehicles without it? mostly sh*t boxes? Even my 49 year old classic car has cruise control, & I use it every time I drive it!

Nobody mentioned finding "vehicles without it". We are discussing whether or not you like it. Just because a vehicle has it doesn't mean you have to use it or like it.

 

[YazYaz]

There are 3 of you in the USA who don't like cruise control. Where in the world do you find all those vehicles without it? mostly sh*t boxes? Even my 49 year old classic car has cruise control, & I use it every time I drive it!

3 in the USA? Most of this thread hat...., oops dislikes it.

 

[YazYaz]

A lot depends on where you drive. I live in the southwest and often take long trips on roads with traffic sparse, towns widely spaced, and Highway Patrol cleverly hidden. One day last month, for example, I spent about 8 hours on the road between Twin Falls, ID and Las Vegas, NV (as part of a much longer trip from British Columbia almost to the Mexican border).

CC allows me to keep my eyes on the road and the starkly beautiful landscape and not worry about whether my speed is slowly creeping up to the ticketing threshold. It also allows my foot and leg to relax instead of trying to maintain just the proper (ever-changing) position hour after hour.

So... I use it when it helps me and don't when it doesn't. I know some people find the technology difficult to manage, but because I use it frequently it is second nature and I don't even have to think about it.

Valid points except that the people who dislike CC don't dislike it because they find technology difficult to manage. They dislike the fact that this technology can't manage their vehicle as well as they can.

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