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[Watashiwah]

Apparently one problem with autonomous vehicles is making the human calculations that might be a little outside of legal, and make autonomous anticipation impossible. i never used cruise control in hilly, or especially mountainous, areas because the CC was always close to 'behind the power curve' going up unanticipated hills, the car was always playing 'catch up.' CC only is really energy efficient on long flat roads. even the new technology is apparently incapable of factoring upcoming hills...

 

[larryboy]

Apparently one problem with autonomous vehicles is making the human calculations that might be a little outside of legal, and make autonomous anticipation impossible. i never used cruise control in hilly, or especially mountainous, areas because the CC was always close to 'behind the power curve' going up unanticipated hills, the car was always playing 'catch up.' CC only is really energy efficient on long flat roads. even the new technology is apparently incapable of factoring upcoming hills...

Cruise control causes the transmission to shift down to maintain speed on hills. If you
gain a little speed on downhills you can back off going up hills and keep the vehicle in top gear. You are a pain in the ass if there is traffic behind you but you get much better mileage.

 

[Coss]

Apparently one problem with autonomous vehicles is making the human calculations that might be a little outside of legal, and make autonomous anticipation impossible. i never used cruise control in hilly, or especially mountainous, areas because the CC was always close to 'behind the power curve' going up unanticipated hills, the car was always playing 'catch up.' CC only is really energy efficient on long flat roads. even the new technology is apparently incapable of factoring upcoming hills...

Hills in DC? Sorry, I don't think of that area as very hilly, those are tiny compared to the west coast.
And CC works quite well here, you just give a tap or two when you see a hill coming up, and a tap or two on the downhill side.

 

[Watashiwah]

How did you know that my 46 years of driving were limited to DC?

 

[Coss]

Same here, been all over the Midwest, east coast, South and south west, not the same as the Great NW

 

[CrimsonEclipse]

Apparently one problem with autonomous vehicles is making the human calculations that might be a little outside of legal, and make autonomous anticipation impossible.

Um.... What? That makes no sense.

i never used cruise control in hilly, or especially mountainous, areas because the CC was always close to 'behind the power curve' going up unanticipated hills, the car was always playing 'catch up.' CC only is really energy efficient on long flat roads. even the new technology is apparently incapable of factoring upcoming hills...

Cruise Control operates on engine RPM and not much else.
The calculations for Level 5 self driving is about 6 orders of magnitude greater than needed for CC

 

[W. WIllie]

Sorry, I think it also takes into consideration the load on the engine. IIRR.