When I pass a vehicle on the highway I accelerate, get in the passing lane, pass the vehicle, get back back over into the right lane, maintain passing speed to put some space between me and the vehicle I just passed. Then let off the gas and coast down to the previous set speed. The system in this car applies the brakes as soon as you get off the gas. Very annoying. My first experience with these so called driver assistance systems was years ago. I had to take the company van to customer site. The car up ahead of me got off on an exit ramp that curved along with the highway, and when it slowed at the end of the ramp, the system in the van decided to jam on the brakes full force at 70mph with no warning. If there was ice on the road that day I would have been dead. The Chrysler 300 I traded for this car had both normal and adaptive cruise. Never used the adaptive cruise. I also shut off the automatic emergency braking after the first time it smashed on the brakes because it thought I was going to hit something.
I have not driven a mopar with adaptive cruise but on my Fords and BMWs, adaptive cruise and emergency braking are two totally separate things. If I speed up to pass a car, it just coasts until back to the set speed; and never brakes in that scenario. I am very surprised that the Charger applies brakes.
Yes, they are two different systems. With my 300, the emergency braking was active no matter what. I could shut off the braking but the alarms would still do their
Yes, the braking seems very aggressive after passing and getting back in the right lane with nothing in front of me. Let off the gas and it will drop from 80mph to 70 in a couple of seconds. Probably an artifact from Carlos Tavares outsourcing all the software code writing to the cheapest labor he could find.
Haven’t tried that yet. Thanks! I held down the cruise on/off button and heard a chime and got a warning ACC was unavailable. Gonna try the distance setting later today.
You can not go to a normal cruise setting. Later RJD
Well that is a con for me. This is not a deal breaker for me but it definitely is a con. I see no reason why it cant have a normal non Adaptive cruise control. Although I guess I can just put my foot down to defy it.
Could be that, but my money is on avoiding lawsuits from "I swear I had it in adaptive mode!" or "it just turned itself off and I crashed!"
Just use the standard cruise control. It is the button to the right of the Adaptive Cruise Control button, in between the "Cancel" & "Resume" buttons.
Do you mean this one?
