Releasing Cruise Control with Brake

[qbee42]

I always use the CC lever to disengage unless it's a panic stop. It's a smoother way to do it, and it avoids flashing your brake lights when you aren't intending to brake.

Tom

[mikepaul]

Oddly, since I broke my CC lever and avoid using it to disconnect cruise anymore, I find that a quick tap on the brake works fine. Perhaps I 'tap' harder than most...

[Hopopotamus]

I believe this is what Toyota wanted to do. Some high end cars have this for years now. I personally love it on long rides on the open road( you don't have to set up cc again just get back up to speed when you done braking ). I wish my generation II had this option.

[a64pilot]

Normally the same switch that triggers the brake lights will disengage the cruise control, which has me thinking that you have to push the brake pedal that hard to turn on the brake lights.
If you actually got a braking effect without disconnecting the cruise control, the moment the cruise control detected vehicle speed below the set point, it would add throttle to accelerate the car back to the set point. Not realizing what was going on could cause some people to think they just experience un-commanded acceleration.
Interesting, hadn't thought of that before.

[Tad Moody]

Seems all have this hard-braking to disengage the cc problem, it's just the way it's designed, and I personally hate it, but, I am not going to bother to attempt to have it adjusted.

I just notch the shifter into"B" then back to "D". This smoothly disengages the cc, and preserves your speed setting: then, to re-engage, just push up on the lever, and it will take you back to your set speed.

Another tip is while in cruise-control, you can increase or decrease your set speed by "notching" the control stick. For example, rather than holding the stick upward until the car climbs to the desired speed, quickly push up then release the stick once for each MPH you want to increase. ( Example 5 times = 5 mph ) and the speed will climb to that many MPH faster. You don't have to take your eyes off the road to watch the speedo for your target speed. Same with decreasing speed.

[drmalone]

I've noticed this as well. My '06 only took a light tap to disengage. The '10 takes a much harder push on the brake. I prefer not to turn it off so I can just resume.

[eglmainz]

Originally Posted by a64pilot

Normally the same switch that triggers the brake lights will disengage the cruise control, which has me thinking that you have to push the brake pedal that hard to turn on the brake lights.

Correct, this is what this issue is related to.

On the first day that I had my car, I noticed that I could ot initially get it to go 'ready'. Instead it would only go to 'Accessory' mode.
This was because, although my foot was on the brake pedal, I was not applying enough pressure for it to hit the actuator, which when depressed triggers the brake lights, and disengages the cruise control.

Originally Posted by a64pilot

If you actually got a braking effect without disconnecting the cruise control, the moment the cruise control detected vehicle speed below the set point, it would add throttle to accelerate the car back to the set point. Not realizing what was going on could cause some people to think they just experience un-commanded acceleration. Interesting, hadn't thought of that before.

This would likely be a significant issue, and if I were you, I would have someone look at that immediately.

Originally Posted by Hopopotamus

I believe this is what Toyota wanted to do. Some high end cars have this for years now. I personally love it on long rides on the open road( you don't have to set up cc again just get back up to speed when you done braking ). I wish my generation II had this option.

When you ‘disengage’ cruise control, by pulling the stalk towards you, you are only removing the accelerator, but not deleting the speed memory of cruise control. If you then, simply push the stalk upwards again, you will re-engage it, and it will accerate / decelerate as needed to regain that previously set speed.

If however, you instead disable (turn off) cruise control by pressing the little button on the end of the stalk in, and turning off the cruise control icon on your dashboard, then you would need to reset the accelelorator speed by pressing the stalk downwards again.

[a64pilot]

Originally Posted by eglmainz

This would likely be a significant issue, and if I were you, I would have someone look at that immediately.

Hasn't happened to me , but I could see as how it could happen. This whole issue is another one of those things, that in my opinion are not a big enough problem to fix. Yes there is more brake pedal movement required than average to disengage the cruise control, noted. I as others just use the stalk to disengage it, no problem.
But, I could see how someone less informed on how cars work could think they experienced a "sudden acceleration" incident, when they really didn't.
Since the Audi "incidents" years ago, sudden acceleration whether it exists or not, get's far more attention than it should. I am of the opinion that 99% of the time operator error is to blame.

[archermoo]

Originally Posted by Tad Moody

I just notch the shifter into"B" then back to "D". This smoothly disengages the cc, and preserves your speed setting: then, to re-engage, just push up on the lever, and it will take you back to your set speed.

Of note, all you need to do to disengage the cruise while retaining your speed setting is pull the lever towards you. No need to shift to B and then back to D.

[eglmainz]

Originally Posted by archermoo

Of note, all you need to do to disengage the cruise while retaining your speed setting is pull the lever towards you. No need to shift to B and then back to D.

That's what I just said...

Originally Posted by eglmainz

When you ‘disengage’ cruise control, by pulling the stalk towards you, you are only removing the accelerator, but not deleting the speed memory of cruise control. If you then, simply push the stalk upwards again, you will re-engage it, and it will accerate / decelerate as needed to regain that previously set speed