Understanding Porsche Adaptive Cruise Control
If you’re interested in getting a model with Porsche Adaptive Cruise Control, then you need to understand what it is and how to use it.
Adaptive Cruise Control is one of the driver assistance features available in today’s Porsche vehicles. It can be used to help you reduce fatigue while driving long periods, particularly on the highway.
Understanding Porsche Adaptive Cruise Control
What Adaptive Cruise Control Is
Adaptive Cruise Control allows you to maintain a consistent speed on the highway while keeping a set distance between you and the car in front of you. When this feature is in use, it adapts to the speed of the driver in front of you. If that car speeds up, then yours will speed up to maintain the distance you set. If the vehicle in front of you slows down, then your car will also slow down.
Adaptive Cruise Control can also stop your vehicle if the leading driver ahead stops.
How To Use Adaptive Cruise Control
There’s a button on the end of the steering wheel’s left stalk that activates Adaptive Cruise Control in models that have it. You’ll then see a graphic of your vehicle appear on your multi-function display as well as your speed, the speed of the driver ahead, and the distance you’re keeping from the car in front of you.
If you want your current speed to be your cruising speed, then push the left stalk forward. Quickly pushing this stalk forward again will increase your speed in increments of one mph. You can also hold the stalk forward to increase your speed in five mph increments instead. You can decrease your speed by one mph by pulling the stalk toward you. Pushing the rocker switch up and down lets you increase and decrease your following distance.
When Not to Use Adaptive Cruise Control
Avoid using Adaptive Cruise Control when going uphill and downhill, as your vehicle doesn’t differentiate this terrain and will maintain your speed regardless of the slope or valley you’re driving on. It’s also extremely inadvisable to drive with Adaptive Cruise Control on slippery surfaces, whether the roads are just wet or icy. Using the feature under these conditions can lead your vehicle to slip or skid.
It’s also not a good idea to use it during stop-and-go traffic. Although cruise control can stop your car, it won’t automatically make your car start driving again, so it’s unwise to use it in this situation.
The Best Conditions to Use Adaptive Cruise Control In
Adaptive Cruise Control is best used when you’re driving at a relatively consistent speed on a straight, flat road. This makes it ideal for use during highway driving.
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