As I said, I haven't used the Omega cruise yet and I'm beginning to wonder if it's worth enabling it as it sounds a bit crude. I have never had any of the problems mentioned on here with cruise in my previous cars, or even my bike. I just set the speed and let the car get on with it; no jumping through gears or surging, just a steady speed maintained.
I wouldn't say it was any worse than most. It's the general principle of responding to inlet manifold pressure or road speed that is inappropriate. A gradient of the wrong angle and length will cause the system to increase throttle at a point where a driver would be backing it off. Likewise mid-bend, a sensible driver would not normally stab the throttle at this point.
And some more sophisticated systems are worse! I think I've recounted on here before about a friend's Mondeo with adaptive cruise control. He can set it to 60 on a country road and it drives up behind a car doing 40 so it slows to maintain a gap. Car in front goes round a bend and the system loses sight of it. You can probably guess the rest! Car tries to get back to 60 and suddenly "finds" the car after the bend is completed, so it has to brake.
No. the Omega's system isn't all that bad really.
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