Re: BUG in Cruise Control on 97 GLX?!?

[Daniel Bairos <glxjetta97@yahoo.com>]

Are you to leave the car in gear when in Cruise Control or are you to
leave the car in neutral?




- ---"Khan M. Klatt" <kmk@pacificrim.net> wrote:
>
> 
> OK, check this out.
> 
> I'm driving along at 30 in a 25 zone in the middle of a speed trap
that I
> know cops like to hide out in. Since I know my spedometer shows
three miles
> faster than it really is, I figure I'm going about 27 mph in a 25.
Driving
> 27mph is really hard in these GLXes, you just want to step on it
right?
> 
> So what I usually do is set my cruise control during this stretch,
just to
> avoid the lead-foot syndrome to get me a ticket. Yeah, it's kind of
strange
> setting cruise at 30mph.
> 
> Anyway, so not realizing that I've for some reason shifted into
neutral, I
> hit the cruise button.
> 
> Lo and behold, WHILE THE CAR IS IN NEUTRAL, the tach starts to climb
and
> climb and climb, I'm assuming until the engine would blow up. (I
quickly
> hit the brake to turn off the cruise)
> 
> This seems like a BUG! Check this out: Set your cruise in 4th gear
(on the
> freeway) to 60mph. Then, without turning cruise off, shift into
fifth gear.
> You'll notice that your car (if it's like mine) will turn Cruise
Control
> off. (I'm assuming because the clutch went in)
> 
> Yet, when you're cruising in neutral, and you hit cruise control, your
> engine will try to accellerate you up to speed! I know this is a
fairly
> UNCOMMON and would RARELY ever happen, but the fact that it wasn't
> anticipated seems a little strange to me.
> 
> Tell me I'm off my rocker, or tell me the VW engineers missed this
one. I
> would expect this behavior from a "Unix-like" car where the OS gives
you
> enough rope to hang you, but it seems to me that today's consumer
cars are
> supposed to be more "Mac-like", where you're "politely asked to
please have
> a seat and enjoy the in-flight movie" ***.
> 
> -Khan
> 
> *** This is from an article on the net that compares operating
systems to
> airplanes. Unix airplanes would have all passengers show up with the
parts
> to the plane, and organize and assemble the parts on the runway.
MacOS is
> where, when you get up to ask a question, a friendly flight
attendant tells
> you to kindly take your seat and enjoy the inflight movie... If I
recall
> correctly, Windows airplanes crash every five minutes, whenever
someone
> does something innocuous like opening their tray table or hitting the
> attendant button, yet noone seems to mind. ***
> 
> Khan Klatt					   khan@pacificrim.net
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