[urq] Another great reason to keep you "old" cars

[Louis-Alain Richard]

BTW: if memory serves, and if my experience of the throttle-by-wire cars is
correct, then you'll always have the choice to overcome the speed limit by
flooring the throttle pass a certain point. 

On the Renaults, they have a standard cruise control and a "speed limiter".
This new "program" lets you attain a pre-set speed and then gently ease off
the throttle to maintain that speed no matter the throttle position, unless
you depress the pedal pass the "soft stop" at the 2/3rd of the end of its
stroke. Pass that, you regain the full power of the engine. 

I guess the GPS system will be configured similarly.

Not that I want a device like that in my cars, not at all...

Louis-Alain



> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : urq-bounces at audifans.com [mailto:urq-bounces at audifans.com] De la part
> de alexander stickler
> Envoyé : 2 février, 2006 10:11
> À : urq at audifans.com; djdawson2 at aol.com
> Objet : Re: [urq] Another great reason to keep you "old" cars
> 
> I can't imagine what would happen 1/2-way into passing
> a vehicle that is moving slightly slower than the
> speed limit on a 2-lane roadway. I pull out to pass
> (mindful of putting on my turn signal), accelerate to
> the posted speed limit (and can't go faster), the
> other car speeds up to the speed limit as I am making
> the pass, and now sit in no man's land moving the same
> speed as the car I am passing on the wrong side of the
> road... that's really dangerous.
> 
 
> 
> Alex Stickler