Cruise Control Hack

[darelldd]

Originally Posted by dapastaguy

How abouit a hack that keeps the cruise on like a normal car? I hate having to puch the button every day, ebery other car I've had cruise in, even some toyotas, always had an on that stayed on

Eeeexactly what I was going to say. That's the "hack" that should have come standard with the car. Every time I get in the car and want to use cruise, I first have to turn it on, and then set it? Why????

[okiebutnotfrommuskogee]

The hack I would like to see is one that would keep it from forgetting the set speed when the car comes to a stop. My 05 Avalon cruise control remembers the previously set speed after a stop and after the car gets up to about 25 mph just hit resume and it goes back to the speed before the stop.

When I first got the Prius, I thought the cc was broken because I had to reset it after every stop.

[bry]

i would like it to use engery regen. to slow the prius back to the set speed when going down hill. when ever i go down a hill the prius will pick up speed. this seems like a wasted opertunity to recover some engery. it also seems like a simple program modification. my uncles civic hybrid does this. its the only feature that the civic has that the prius lacks that is good.

[lesturner]

While we are discussing cruise control mods... I would be happy if the Cruise light in the dash was illuminated ONLY if the cruise control was engaged, not simply powered on.

Les ---

[eagsc7]

My only gripe is that there is no readout saying that Cruise is set... In our 04 Grand Prix, every time I would set a speed, it would flash a message on the MFD saying Cruise Set.

I also do agree with a Effeciency/power switch or option. I have the feeling that ALL of this is just programming for use in the MFD.

The Steaks