Coolest feature of the IS
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Coolest feature of the IS
The coolest feature of the IS has to be the Dynamic Radar Cruise Control. There are going to be those that say they never use cruise control, expensive, etc, etc. But this is NOT like the old-school cruise. You basically set it and forget it. Cars pull in and and out in front of you, it brakes and speeds up automatically. It just locks in on the vehicle in front and stays a fixed distance (actually time interval) behind. I rarely used cruise before, but with the DRCC you can actually use cruise in relatively heavy traffic.
I only post this as information for those that are interested, please keep negative comments to yourselves. Thanks.
I only post this as information for those that are interested, please keep negative comments to yourselves. Thanks.
#2
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For me..living in the rainy NW..the auto sensing wipers are great. Most time the rain is light and intermittent..so you set it and forget it. Don't have the radar cruise so I can't comment on that one...Its a pretty spendy option for me as most of my driving is to work and back..which has verly little time for using any version of cruise
#3
Can you be a little more descriptive about how it works in real time traffic.
For example, if your in the interstate going 65 and someone passes you and then gets in front of you and within 10 sec that driver has decreased their speed down to 45, so that means within that 10 secs you car equipped with this will slow down to less than 45 so as not to hit that person?
Then what it that person for some odd reason decides at 45 they are going to hit the brakes because of road debris or someone cuts them off and then their speed drops down to 30, all this within secds, how does the Lexus respond to this?
For me I would naturally want to hit the brakes with my foot, does this system keep you from having to do that? In an emergency will it actually stop the vehicle? I'm kinda unclear how it really works and whether I could get use to it since I am so use to manually using the speed control with up or down resume to fit the traffic in front of me, makes me feel I have more control since I am doing it.
I use cruise control all the time, everyday, I wonder if I would like this, do you think Lexus demo cars would have this to test?
For example, if your in the interstate going 65 and someone passes you and then gets in front of you and within 10 sec that driver has decreased their speed down to 45, so that means within that 10 secs you car equipped with this will slow down to less than 45 so as not to hit that person?
Then what it that person for some odd reason decides at 45 they are going to hit the brakes because of road debris or someone cuts them off and then their speed drops down to 30, all this within secds, how does the Lexus respond to this?
For me I would naturally want to hit the brakes with my foot, does this system keep you from having to do that? In an emergency will it actually stop the vehicle? I'm kinda unclear how it really works and whether I could get use to it since I am so use to manually using the speed control with up or down resume to fit the traffic in front of me, makes me feel I have more control since I am doing it.
I use cruise control all the time, everyday, I wonder if I would like this, do you think Lexus demo cars would have this to test?
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Originally Posted by XanaduSC
Can you be a little more descriptive about how it works in real time traffic.
For example, if your in the interstate going 65 and someone passes you and then gets in front of you and within 10 sec that driver has decreased their speed down to 45, so that means within that 10 secs you car equipped with this will slow down to less than 45 so as not to hit that person?
For example, if your in the interstate going 65 and someone passes you and then gets in front of you and within 10 sec that driver has decreased their speed down to 45, so that means within that 10 secs you car equipped with this will slow down to less than 45 so as not to hit that person?
Then what it that person for some odd reason decides at 45 they are going to hit the brakes because of road debris or someone cuts them off and then their speed drops down to 30, all this within secds, how does the Lexus respond to this?
For me I would naturally want to hit the brakes with my foot, does this system keep you from having to do that? In an emergency will it actually stop the vehicle? I'm kinda unclear how it really works and whether I could get use to it since I am so use to manually using the speed control with up or down resume to fit the traffic in front of me, makes me feel I have more control since I am doing it.
I doubt you'd find any ISes to demo, but you can likely find it on an LS, maybe even a GS.
Side note: When the system detects a target (er, car) ahead, it displays a car icon in the multifunction display. I feel like Tom Cruise in Top Gun.
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I'm not sure what's the coolest feature for me since there are so many in this car.
If radar cruise were not special order for me, I would probably get but like others I would never use it. Because despite the traffic, I never drive in traffic. Ever. I'm that guy safely changing lanes constantly and passing others...95% of the time. On my current IS, I have yet to engage the regular cruise control.
If radar cruise were not special order for me, I would probably get but like others I would never use it. Because despite the traffic, I never drive in traffic. Ever. I'm that guy safely changing lanes constantly and passing others...95% of the time. On my current IS, I have yet to engage the regular cruise control.
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The radar cruise control is the one feature I'm not getting on my IS350 that I wish I were. I have long been a victim of the ACCC--the Anti-Cruise Control Conspiracy. I don't know what their motive is, but the members of the ACCC always seem to find me whenever I'm trying to use cruise control and get in front of me and then go slower than me.
Anyway, if I were special ordering a car now (which I can't--out of the question that I could ever waith that long) I would spring for it. I originally placed a special order without it--trying to exercise a tiny degree of fiscal responsibility after getting it loaded with everything else I wanted (sport package, ML, Nav). In the meantime, I found another IS350 that is coming in much earlier than my special order would--hopefully by the end of this week--that has all the options I ordered (plus park assist, which I think will be nice to have, and headlamp washers, which I couldn't care less about). So, I should be driving my IS350 soon, but without radar cruise. Oh well, I've lived all my life without it, so, no biggie.
Anyway, if I were special ordering a car now (which I can't--out of the question that I could ever waith that long) I would spring for it. I originally placed a special order without it--trying to exercise a tiny degree of fiscal responsibility after getting it loaded with everything else I wanted (sport package, ML, Nav). In the meantime, I found another IS350 that is coming in much earlier than my special order would--hopefully by the end of this week--that has all the options I ordered (plus park assist, which I think will be nice to have, and headlamp washers, which I couldn't care less about). So, I should be driving my IS350 soon, but without radar cruise. Oh well, I've lived all my life without it, so, no biggie.
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Originally Posted by TimboIS
The coolest feature of the IS has to be the Dynamic Radar Cruise Control. There are going to be those that say they never use cruise control, expensive, etc, etc. But this is NOT like the old-school cruise. You basically set it and forget it. Cars pull in and and out in front of you, it brakes and speeds up automatically. It just locks in on the vehicle in front and stays a fixed distance (actually time interval) behind. I rarely used cruise before, but with the DRCC you can actually use cruise in relatively heavy traffic.
I only post this as information for those that are interested, please keep negative comments to yourselves. Thanks.
I only post this as information for those that are interested, please keep negative comments to yourselves. Thanks.
thats not available in Canadian Models
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Originally Posted by is350
how much is that option? i live in socal, so i rarely use cruise control but it would be something nice to have.
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Originally Posted by TimboIS
Side note: When the system detects a target (er, car) ahead, it displays a car icon in the multifunction display. I feel like Tom Cruise in Top Gun.
Does it ever see shadows or ghosts or anything? Does the radar/sonar/whatever ever catch anything else and cause your car to brake rapidly when there is no need? Sounds like there could be some potential for calamity there.
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Originally Posted by Big Andy
Coolest feature for me would have to be the ventilated seats...