M4 average speed cameras trap 6,500 in south Wales

[DaveB]

And what about variable speed limits?

Then you press the little +/- button on the steering wheel to adjust your cruise control to match...

[TimberWolf]

Then you press the little +/- button on the steering wheel to adjust your cruise control to match...

Don't you feel pressurised to conform to other motorists speeds and general motorway madness? Well, you must do if you are encroaching a car in front, but even in the slow lane there's a great deal of pressure to close gaps and to increase speed if a juggernaut starts tailgating. I'd feel uncomfortable using cruise control.

[craig1]

Don't you feel pressurised to conform to other motorists speeds and general motorway madness? Well, you must do if you are encroaching a car in front, but even in the slow lane there's a great deal of pressure to close gaps and to increase speed if a juggernaut starts tailgating. I'd feel uncomfortable using cruise control.

You get used to it very quickly and it's certainly a good way of eating up long drives in a more relaxed fashion. The most annoying thing though on long motorway journeys is the number of people you'll overtake then two minutes later see the same car go past 10-15mph faster than you, a few minutes later you're overtaking them again. Either that or people doing about 60mph, you pull out to overtake then they accelerate to stop you overtaking, that happens far too often to be anything other than infuriating.

[DaveB]

Don't you feel pressurised to conform to other motorists speeds and general motorway madness? Well, you must do if you are encroaching a car in front, but even in the slow lane there's a great deal of pressure to close gaps and to increase speed if a juggernaut starts tailgating. I'd feel uncomfortable using cruise control.

Nope.

If traffic slows below the limit just brake and the cruise control goes off but remembers the speed you were doing so you can turn it back on again when things speed up again.

If someone wants to tailgate me in the slow lane when I'm doing the current speed limit let them, nothing stopping them overtaking me if they want to.

[d000hg]

More fines handed out for driving then knife crime.

Brill.

There are more deaths by car than by knife, and far more people who use their car as a weapon (or don't know how to stop it being a weapon).

I wouldn't have thought CC would be well-suited to English roads, busy and twisty as they are. Driving in Nevada it was a great thing though.

[DaveB]

There are more deaths by car than by knife, and far more people who use their car as a weapon (or don't know how to stop it being a weapon).

I wouldn't have thought CC would be well-suited to English roads, busy and twisty as they are. Driving in Nevada it was a great thing though.

Only ever use it on Motorways or good stretches of Dual Carriage way. I do a lot of miles on both and it makes life far easier.

[Troll]

Don't you feel pressurised to conform to other motorists speeds and general motorway madness? Well, you must do if you are encroaching a car in front, but even in the slow lane there's a great deal of pressure to close gaps and to increase speed if a juggernaut starts tailgating. I'd feel uncomfortable using cruise control.

Lorries won't tailgate if you do the speed your sat-nav shows rather than your under-reading car speedo

One of the benifits of using cruise is it makes you anticipate events far ahead so you don't have to come off control - bonus, you find your driving style smooths out as does fuel consumption

Fly in the ointment is the fookwits who overtake you and then slow down to a slower speed than the cruise is set for; or the non-cruise dimwits who fail to realise that going up inclines means you have to press the pedal a little bit more to maintain the same speed

[EternalOptimist]

Driving in Oz, the US and Canada, I use cruise control 90% of the time and it is a fantastic boon. In the UK , I wouldnt use it ever. In this country, you can not afford to relax for a second

[SupremeSpod]

Lorries won't tailgate if you do the speed your sat-nav shows rather than your under-reading car speedo

One of the benifits of using cruise is it makes you anticipate events far ahead so you don't have to come off control - bonus, you find your driving style smooths out as does fuel consumption

Fly in the ointment is the fookwits who overtake you and then slow down to a slower speed than the cruise is set for; or the non-cruise dimwits who fail to realise that going up inclines means you have to press the pedal a little bit more to maintain the same speed

My Range Rovers had adaptive cruise control. Spooky stuff but it worked once you learned to trust it.

[BoredBloke]

The variable ones do my fruit in! Last week on the M42 at 9pm they had 2 signs on slowing the traffic to 50 and then 40. There was nothing there - no accident, nothing!! All they did was slow an empty motorway down.

Quite often when I used to drive back on a Thursday night the variable speed thing would be set to 60 when the outside lane was empty due to the motorway being quiet. Are they on a timer?