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I'm pretty much out of the habit of using cruise control even with newer adaptive cruise control because it really encourages maintaining a constant speed even on roads that are really too busy to allow it.


In this city, even at 3:30 in the morning on Sunday, cruise control is just useless. It's a spaghetti pile of twisty roads and a billion intersections. Even on the major thoroughfares, you're not going to drive more than 20 seconds without hitting a intersection. To make matters worse, it's all way too disorganized to efficiently coordinate-- almost nothing is perpendicular-- so when traffic is light they just have very short light cycles and you're nearly guaranteed to hit a red light in a few blocks, max. Most residential streets are only wide enough to accommodate one car, but in many cases there's no logistical way to make them one way, so you just have to get good at constantly negotiating who should yield and who should go with oncoming traffic. That, specifically, causes shockingly few problems! But it makes for complex traffic patterns that require a lot of cognitive load to handle. If there was good public transit here, it would be great.




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