Cruise Control Usage

[fatbassman]

Info and helpful advice appreciated...
My old truck had standard cruise control. While crossing mountain passes when I decended, it would down shift to control my speed. Worked great. Mostly it was never an issue, but when the pass was a disaster, it was great to not have to apply the brakes.

Fast forward, I'm now in a 2022 F150 which I love. However, adaptive cruise actually applies brakes to slow. Not ideal for the worst pass conditions. So wondering.. and I haven't tried it yet, but if I switch it to standard cruise if it will work like my old truck? Slow by downshifting?

Thanks in advance

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[Buyer2021]

Fast forward, I'm now in a 2022 F150 which I love. However, adaptive cruise actually applies brakes to slow. Not ideal for the worst pass conditions. So wondering.. and I haven't tried it yet, but if I switch it to standard cruise if it will work like my old truck? Slow by downshifting?

You can have the best of both worlds .... Stick with adaptive cruise and when on one of those worst-case long-downgrades just reach over and use your tranny manual-shift button to force the downshift for increased engine-braking / decreased wheel-braking.

 

[fatbassman]

You can have the best of both worlds .... Stick with adaptive cruise and when on one of those worst-case long-downgrades just reach over and use your tranny manual-shift button to force the downshift for increased engine-braking / decreased wheel-braking.

Thanks for the response. I guess I figured I could do that but even then infrequent brake applications from adaptive cruise could be tough. The pass I travel sometimes isn't plowed or sanded at all. Solid compact snow and ice. Do you know if standard cruise works like I described?

 

[Dexter2905]

Thanks for the response. I guess I figured I could do that but even then infrequent brake applications from adaptive cruise could be tough. The pass I travel sometimes isn't plowed or sanded at all. Solid compact snow and ice. Do you know if standard cruise works like I described?

You should never be using cruise control when road surfaces have snow or ice. Doing so is extremely dangerous to yourself and others.

 

[zx6roclet]

Cruise on snow/ice, you have balls sir!

My mother used to use cruise control in the rain. Once she hit a puddle on the freeway and she did 3-360 degree spins on the freeway and somehow didn’t flip the car. She now drives the weather off cruise lol

 

[fatbassman]

I was actually waiting for someone to tell me how to drive. I know the OP is just supposed to ignore posts like this, but... Explain to me exactly how descending an icy hill at 25 mph with no brake application is more dangerous than having to pump the brakes or manually downshifting? Did you read the post about how my old truck didn't apply brakes and automatically slows down with only the transmission? It kept a perfect, even, constant speed. Which is exactly what I'd try to do with manually downshifting. Also I should add that I drove that truck for 10 years doing exactly what I described, never once getting into a dangerous situation. The whole while people in trucks who "know the right way to drive" zoomed past. Over the years, I've seen many of those spun out off the road. Posts like this are not helpful. I'm damn near 60 years old and don't need to be told how to drive.

 

[fatbassman]

It wasn't like standard cruise. In my truck (2015 Ram 1500 Hemi) it was more like a "slow down system." It never accelerated, it never braked. It only automatically cycled through the gears to gently shift up or down as necessary. It did it properly. IMO, better than a human.

 

[tbinmd]

put the truck in tow mode.

 

[SilverSpur]

I wish mine had the adaptive Cruise. Constantly cutting off the regular cruise in tight traffic.

 

[KingDavid]

put the truck in tow mode.

Yep try tow/haul mode. It uses engine breaking more than sport mode...Then again, I am tuned.

 

[FaaWrenchBndr]

Thanks for the response. I guess I figured I could do that but even then infrequent brake applications from adaptive cruise could be tough. The pass I travel sometimes isn't plowed or sanded at all. Solid compact snow and ice. Do you know if standard cruise works like I described?

yes, on mountain passes, coming down hills, the standard cruise control will downshift and use the engines breaking to control the speed.

 

[HammaMan]

It's the number of gears that's the issue. Really hard to compare to 4 and 6 speed autos to the 10spd. The truck can do about 90% of situations on its own, but to dial in the last 10% it needs the meat sack's input. There's 2 methods for controlling the trans, you can go into manual* or you can lock out gears by simply hitting the minus key and watch them disappear on the IPC.

Most situations are handled by gear lockout particularly for hill decant at speed / towing. If you're wanting 2nd or 3rd, you're going to have to hit that - key a lot.

 

[powerboatr]

.02 agreed with above
long scary down hills like sandia peak , mont eagle etc shift to tow haul, use shifter to lower gears to control speed along with adaptive cruise
easy as falling down a set of stairs

 

[FaaWrenchBndr]

.02 agreed with above
long scary down hills like sandia peak , mont eagle etc shift to tow haul, use shifter to lower gears to control speed along with adaptive cruise
easy as falling down a set of stairs

very well stated, I got admit that last line got me to choke up a bit of coffee. Well played, sir.

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