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by HumblyTossed 809 days ago
> The major downside of the cruise control was phantom braking. In about 450mi of driving up and down CA 101 I has three false positives, where we suddenly decelerated:

> I was in the rightmost of two lanes and an SUV was parked in the breakdown lane with its hazards on.

Why was this a false positive?? This is what you are supposed to do if you don't get over to the left.

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They said it 'suddenly decelerated.' That is NOT what you are supposed to do when a car is in the breakdown lane.