I can’t believe this doesn’t have ACC. I struggle to understand why adaptive cruise is standard on Toyota and Honda, but a 7 series of all cars doesn’t come with it…
Come drive in NY, Mr. San Diego…you will be eaten alive if you have ACC on. With NY/NJ drivers squeezing in any inch you give them, you will let ever car get merge in front of you if you have it on. I can’t drive with it even in a Tesla in traffic…the cars behind you will think you are an idiot.
I told this to a friend who was considering a model 3 because he thought he could just relax with autopilot on. I told him about this, and he is reconsidering the purchase haha
Yet, that’s exactly where I have used it. ACC works in stop and go traffic. You’re missing it’s value with Route 17 and Route 4 traffic, if you haven’t ever used it. I used it going back 11 years ago when BMW had a prior iteration of it. In any event, NJ is about the exits in the turnpike and the parkway. The average speed (when traffic is flowing) is 80 in the left lane.
EDitted to say that this is a decent deal but the incentives are not available to everyone. So ymmv.
I live right near you. I actually work in Hackensack and used to work in NYC. I’ve used adaptive cruise control in a 16 MB C300 and a 14 Kia Cadenza pretty extensively in the area and it’s nice to have. Hell, I was once stuck in bumper to bumper trying to get to the GWB from the White Stone/Throgs Neck and we were literally creeping along at like 1 MPH. It was nice being able to turn the ACC on and relax. And that was in the Kia, which didn’t have stop and go or steering. If I’m looking at anything even sort of expensive, I expect it to have ACC, even if I don’t use it everyday, it’s nice to have for when I do use it.
