Keep cruise on after shut off?

[17VUDU]

How often do you use cruise control that it’s an inconvenience to you having to set it each time?

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[HoosierDaddy]

Do people really use cruise control in manual cars? I thought the point was to be more engaged? I mean if I drove a Tesla I'd get it. It's really hard to constantly aim for crowds like most of us do so I could just leave autopilot on and let the car plow people down for me. Mainly children but who's counting?

Yes. In city traffic, I have been using adaptive cruise in my manual trans Cadillac and Mustang for over 10 years. Set it for tolerance of speed cameras and not worry about getting nailed for 1 MPH of inattention. When confronted with lane incursions, gun shots, sirens, Cardinal cheerleaders filming a commercial by side of road, don't have to worry about noticing the car in front slamming on the brakes a 1/2 second too late.

 

[CANTWN4LSN]

Well, that looks like the market for a self-driving car with a button to change to optional driver control mode. I get the safety factor but one more thing to take your mind off attentive driving. Personally I find adaptive cruise control beyond annoying. Just too old.

 

[HoosierDaddy]

Well, that looks like the market for a self-driving car with a button to change to optional driver control mode. I get the safety factor but one more thing to take your mind off attentive driving. Personally I find adaptive cruise control beyond annoying. Just too old.

Maybe I'll find it annoying when I'm as old as you. But I'm just 75. And would not use it if I didn't remain attentive. You would be right to not use it if would degrade your attentiveness.

 

[mejohn50]

In an attempt to actually answer the OP's question, there are A TON of cruise control parameters available in PCMTEC. There are several on/off scalars which have a description that *might* do what you are looking for, though I have no way to test it right now, especially on a GT350.

If you are interested in these parameters and you have a tuner willing to do some testing with you, I could point you in the direction of the settings that I would test if I was trying to do this.

I have no way to guarantee any of these would work, but there are a few switches I would flip in an attempt to see if this could work.

 

[Rolls]

Try comparing a gt350 to GT (I believe that gt350 didn't come with adaptive cruise) and it may shed some light.

Beware messing with pid gains and things like that as it could cause a dangerous situation if calibrated incorrectly.

We had a roush stage 1 fitted to a 17 gt, adaptive crusise was working fine, changed the gear box to a tremec 6060 (changed the ratios the same as you do on a normal gt) and now it doesn't work. I believe there are as lot of tables and failsafes. I'm not sure what is different in the roush cal but they don't get it working.

Now had the car been in my possession for a day I'm sure could figure it out as all the interlocks are dataloggable.

If I get a chance to datalog and resolve it I'll post up the dmrs which may help.

Edit:this is not related to your problem but it might be useful for someone else.

Also search for db and sw. There are debug overiddes for just about everything, there may be one for the default cc state.

Edit:this is not your problem

 

[Sparky1337]

I wouldn’t want the cruise on all the time even if it was a setting, cause it’s gonna leave all that clutter lit up on the dash.

Only time I had that was pre 2005 cars that had big green CRUISE when it was on. None of my other cars ever had an indicator that it was on, but would bold the little speedo with an arrow when you actually set it. Nothing even close to clutter

Ford seems to be the only one I’ve had where you have to click on, and then set. It’s annoying coming from dailying other cars that are more intuitive. I’m just glad this car doesn’t tell me when to shift like my VW’s did. That’s useless.

I think Ford just likes buttons. It’s also frustrating if I just want to turn off defrost, I have to navigate 5-6 button presses on the touchscreen for CarPlay. I get I could press the defrost button, but then it freaks out and defaults to stuff I don’t want. I get OP, Ford is just weird with design philosophy.

 

[Sparky1337]

How often do you use cruise control that it’s an inconvenience to you having to set it each time?

I know I use mine every day. Keeps me from acting like a fool. Sometimes I remember. Most times like OP I don’t and wonder why I have to press 2 buttons. Yea, yea, first world problems. But at the same time, why Ford?

 

[K4fxd]

Personally I find adaptive cruise control beyond annoying. Just too old.

The worst part about the adaptive cruise is it causes tailgating.

 

[K4fxd]

@Rolls

What does db and sw stand for. I looked at the software and it escapes me what the meanings are.

 

[mejohn50]

The worst part about the adaptive cruise is it causes tailgating.

How do you rationalize this? If the ACC follow distance is set to a reasonable value, you’d be so far away from the car in front of you that people would be cutting in front of you all the time. It is my perception that many, if not most, people on the road have no concept of a reasonable follow distance.

 

[engineermike]

@Rolls

What does db and sw stand for. I looked at the software and it escapes me what the meanings are.

db = debug
Sw = switch

 

[HoosierDaddy]

The worst part about the adaptive cruise is it causes tailgating.

I haven't seen any difference in tailgating using adaptive cruise. Tailgaters will be tailgaters.

Adaptive cruise doesn't noticeably drive any differently than how I would drive without it. Can't opine about the effect on tailgating for people don't drive the same as adaptive cruise would.

 

[P85596]

GT350's have cruise control?

 

[Inthehighdesert]

I use it quite a bit when pulling my rv on my 22 450. I’m no where near a tailgating situation when it’s on. I’m guessing it sets the truck back 50yds ish on my truck when its engaged from the vehicle in front. It’s super convenient where we have decent elevation changes and some trucks slow down on hill ascents.

The worst part about the adaptive cruise is it causes tailgating.

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