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From: Hachiroku ハチロク on 13 Aug 2010 01:10
Driving my Scion the other day, I had the cruise set for 50, and since I
was on a secondary road I came up on some traffic. Nothing drastic, just
slow down a little.

The brakes on this car are VERY touchy, so I just touched the brake and...

the car SPED UP!

It seems I had depressed the pedal enough to make the pads grab, but not
enough to trip the brake light! So, the cruise control added some more
juice! Once I pressed a little more, the cruise gave up, but until I
pressed the pedal past a certain point, the cruise stayed on.

BTW, on this car, it WILL remember what speed you have set until you
either turn the cruise off, or shut the car off. So, if you were doing 75
on the highway, and come into town, and accidently hit the stalk and
select "Resume"...

I did this accidently once, and the car responded by taking off at
lightning speed; but pressing the brake (far enough) stopped this.


From: m6onz5a on 13 Aug 2010 02:35
On Aug 13, 1:10 am, Hachiroku $B%O%A%m%/(B <Tru...(a)e86.GTS> wrote:
> Driving my Scion the other day, I had the cruise set for 50, and since I
> was on a secondary road I came up on some traffic. Nothing drastic, just
> slow down a little.
>
> The brakes on this car are VERY touchy, so I just touched the brake and...
>
> the car SPED UP!
>
> It seems I had depressed the pedal enough to make the pads grab, but not
> enough to trip the brake light! So, the cruise control added some more
> juice! Once I pressed a little more, the cruise gave up, but until I
> pressed the pedal past a certain point, the cruise stayed on.
>
> BTW, on this car, it WILL remember what speed you have set until you
> either turn the cruise off, or shut the car off. So, if you were doing 75
> on the highway, and come into town, and accidently hit the stalk and
> select "Resume"...
>
> I did this accidently once, and the car responded by taking off at
> lightning speed; but pressing the brake (far enough) stopped this.

make sure your brake switch is adjusted properly. Your brake lights
should come one when you barely touch the pedal. It sounds like you
have to press a bit more for your lights to come on.
From: hls on 13 Aug 2010 08:19

"Hachiroku ハチロク" <Trueno(a)e86.GTS> wrote in message news:xt49o.59094
>
> BTW, on this car, it WILL remember what speed you have set until you
> either turn the cruise off, or shut the car off. So, if you were doing 75
> on the highway, and come into town, and accidently hit the stalk and
> select "Resume"...
>
> I did this accidently once, and the car responded by taking off at
> lightning speed; but pressing the brake (far enough) stopped this.
>

I have noticed something a little similar with the Avalon. If you have the
cruise set at some relatively high speed and then kick the cruise off
by using the brakes or the cruise lever, and then you want to resume
speed, the car accelerates vigorously enough to unnerve some people.

In my case, the brakes always stop it, or it will stop accelerating as
soon as it reaches the target speed, but it goes like a dragster until
it reaches that target speed.

Probably Toyota would have avoided some of the frightened complaints
had they programmed this feature to accelerate a little less vigorously.

From: chuckcar on 13 Aug 2010 08:30
"hls" <hls(a)nospam.nix> wrote in
news:mPSdnT0lCZyhpfjRnZ2dnUVZ5rCdnZ2d(a)giganews.com:

>
> "Hachiroku ハチロク" <Trueno(a)e86.GTS> wrote in message
> news:xt49o.59094
>>
>> BTW, on this car, it WILL remember what speed you have set until you
>> either turn the cruise off, or shut the car off. So, if you were
>> doing 75 on the highway, and come into town, and accidently hit the
>> stalk and select "Resume"...
>>
>> I did this accidently once, and the car responded by taking off at
>> lightning speed; but pressing the brake (far enough) stopped this.
>>
>
> I have noticed something a little similar with the Avalon. If you
> have the cruise set at some relatively high speed and then kick the
> cruise off by using the brakes or the cruise lever, and then you want
> to resume speed, the car accelerates vigorously enough to unnerve some
> people.
>
> In my case, the brakes always stop it, or it will stop accelerating as
> soon as it reaches the target speed, but it goes like a dragster until
> it reaches that target speed.
>
> Probably Toyota would have avoided some of the frightened complaints
> had they programmed this feature to accelerate a little less
> vigorously.
>
Then they'd have to deal with people complaining it takes too long to
reach the resume speed. You can't win and I don't think I've ever seen a
cruise control that didn't make the engine begin to sound angry so to
speak.

It should be stopped by merely touching the brake pedal and resume
should tell you immediately that it's working. You can't fight
incompetent drivers and nor should you try.

--
(setq (chuck nil) car(chuck) )
From: Bill Vanek on 13 Aug 2010 10:18
On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 01:10:53 -0400, Hachiroku ???? <Trueno(a)e86.GTS>
wrote:

>It seems I had depressed the pedal enough to make the pads grab, but not
>enough to trip the brake light! So, the cruise control added some more
>juice!

This is something Toyota would be interested in hearing, but they are
probably already aware of this as a potential problem. Offhand, I
can't think of anything else that would tell the car to stop
depressing the accelerator once the brake-applied signal is lost. But
I could be forgetting something.
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