Comment by rootusrootus
1 day ago
I understand the cruise control dance. I do it on both my Tesla and my Lightning. My solution, which works with both of my cars (notably, not a Genesis, therefore this may not work the same!) is just to accelerate slightly, deactivate cruise, drive as normal.
The Lightning would allow me to do it old school, it has a non-one-pedal-drive mode that has similar regen to normal engine braking on an ICE truck. But I prefer OPD so I just do the 'accelerate slightly and deactivate cruise' to get around the sudden slow down if I just turn it off abruptly.
> Perhaps I'm just getting old and now have bad reflexes!
Sounds like just a very aggressive throttle mapping. Not something I personally run into, but as with my earlier comment, this is very much going to be specific to the car. I also tend to drive with my toe at the bottom of the accelerator pedal which steadies my foot quite a bit and makes it less prone to bouncing on a bump.
> accelerate slightly, deactivate cruise, drive as normal.
That was also what I tried doing to try and remedy the problem. The problem is normally when you want to deactivate cruise, it's because there's a slower car in front. And it's a bit unnerving to accelerate towards the slower vehicle (even if ever so subtle) when the goal is to deactivate cruise. I've attempted this about 3 times on the highway and it just didn't feel comfortable so I stopped doing that. I wish there was simply some setting so that after deactivating cruise there was some smoother ramp up to the current regen setting. For example, after deactivating cruise it's max-regen should be similar to ICE vehicle deceleration, then after N milliseconds ramp up to last used regen. That would solve the problem for me.
I agree it would be nice to have a setting. There is a bit of a delay on my Lightning, less so on the Tesla, but it could be a settable option. I don't run into exactly he same situation, however, because the only cruise control I have is adaptive cruise and it's slowing down for traffic on its own. If I have to disengage cruise in that situation, chances are pretty good I'm using the brake pedal to do it, ha.
Why deactivate cruise control for a slower vehicle in front of you? Does the Genesis not have active cruise control? Both of my cars will slow down automatically to match the speed and keep a safe follow distance.