[p51-remorse]

Usually cruise control refuses to activate below a certain speed, feels like it’s about 28mph in cars I’ve driven. If “many of the incidents occurred when drivers were parking”, this doesn’t line up.

Unless VW lets you engage cruise control when you’re very slow?

[enragedcacti]

Every car I've been in with Adaptive Cruise Control (which I think is standard on ID.4) allows you to activate the system at any vehicle speed but with a set minimum cruise speed (20+ mph in my experience). It's a useful feature in traffic where you'd want the car to keep distance with the car in front of it even below 20+ mph.

But combine that with lackluster AEB, poor detection of stationary objects, and capacitive buttons and its a real problem.

[pfortuny]

Not my Corolla 2023 (IIRC). I do not know the minimum speed but it does not engage at lower ones.

[officeplant]

Most cars let you engage at 20mph going by my purchases since 2010. (Ford, Toyota, Kia all 20mph). The only weird one was my VW which let you engage at 25 then thumb it down to 20mph with the controls if I'm remembering correctly. I only know this because I'm a huge fan of this curvy 15 mile stretch of bayou road with a 20mph limit and its rare that a car hasn't let me engage it that low.

[kstrauser]

I can vouch for our Toyota letting me set it at lower speeds. Our city has a speed limit of 25 mph and there are long stretches of wide avenues where I’ll set it. Then I can spend more time looking out for kids darting across the street than worrying about speed control.

[SoftTalker]

Same I've never seen a cruise control system that would activate/resume at parking lot speeds. Even with physical buttons that's an accident waiting to happen.

[matsemann]

Huh, I've never had it not be like that. It's great for bumper traffic.

[jeffbee]

In the only VW I ever owned, which was a manual transmission Golf, you could engage the cruise control at any speed, right down to crawling at idle in first gear. I truly don't understand the American+Japanese style of demanding a high speed to engage the cruise control. They should work on the ergonomics until it is a more useful feature to keep your speed under 20 MPH in cities.

[falcolas]

It's a mixed bag. Toyota absolutely implements a minimum speed. As does Subaru (for non-adaptive cruise control). Ford, in contrast, does not.

[p51-remorse]

Okay, I have to ask: why on earth would someone downvote this?

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