dreadlocks

On my MK1 I can adjust the distance it keeps from the vehicle infront of me, and the slower you go the closer it gets.. if you reduce it from the default distance it does alot better if you have aggressive drivers who'll take a yard if you give em an inch.. there is a switch on the cruise control stock you can press to +/- the distance.. IIRC the default the distance is @ 3 out of 4, if not its 4 out of 5..

Cadx6

with OBDEleven you can enable a menu in the MMI that allows you to set the default following distance. It will always start there when you activate ACC & if desired you can adjust it with the toggle on the stalk as before.

Bozman5000

Which is much better than setting it each time. But I wish the closest setting was closer, it's still far enough back the people tend to cut in front.

kike805

I think you are better with out acc. Unless you drive long distances and you wanna use your cruise control a lot,having acc is one more problem in the car, if you ever do anything in the car like taking off the bumper or something you would need to recalibrate the system and that’s not cheap at all lol

dreadlocks

as long as your using the same sensors, no calibration is needed assuming you put everything back together correctly and everything was the same as before you took it apart.

Bozman5000

ACC/DAP is used every day on most roads for me. We won't buy another vehicle without it.

quattro0323

Thanks for your candor.

rsilvers129

Depends on the person. My wife has never turned on ACC once. She doesn't know how to, and is not interested in learning how to. A friend just got a Q7 Prestige. She said she has never tried AAC. I spoke to her husband, and he was raving about it and the DAP.

I will never buy another car without it, and it is one of the things that makes me enjoy the car a lot more. I use it every day, even when not in traffic. It cannot be compared to a basic cruise control, which is basically not usable as far as I am concerned. In fact, I probably average about once a year using regular cruise control on my older cars.

I just bought a second Audi and also got ACC. I consider it a critical safety feature as it maintain a safe distance behind any car. Our policy is to always buy every safety feature.

rsilvers129

I set the self-steering on "early" as I love feeling it center itself in the lane and feeling the wheel sometimes move in my hands. It feels like the future. But it is true with the gap. It is more gap than is customary in my area, unless you are trying to let people in, and so people cut in. And when they cut in, it is not clear that the car can "see" them cutting in, so I sometimes have to tap the brakes, which disengages ACC. So it is annoying when someone cuts in. Then you just pull back on the stalk and it re-engages.

Also once someone thought I was letting them in due to the gap, but then the car ahead of me starting moving again, and so my car moved forward and cut off this new car's entry in front of me. He gave me some shrug gesture like "Thanks a lot." It surprised me, as in my mind, the car was driving, not me.

The main unnatural behavior is when someone is in front of you, and turns off to a side road. As a human, I see their signal, and I see them starting to turn, so I don't brake hard--I just keep on going and drive past them, maybe arcing around them a bit. But the car with ACC won't just drive around them. It stops and waits behind them, which is just not normal. And worse, if there is a another car that wants to come in front of you from a side street, they see you stopped, and see it as an invitation to get in front of you, which I often didn't intend to do.

So those are the minor weird things. I like it overall.

OneOfOne

show me a safety system on these cars that doesn't pay for itself the first time its used and there's your answer. its not like choosing leather or some other nebulous 'feature'.