SP1959 wrote: ↑Tue Sep 03, 2024 11:52 am
In relation to the bit about ACC recognising speed limits, this option has always been in the manual, just not in the car.
I have had communication with Volvo about this in the past, and was told it would come in an update. It now has.
I understand that it will be the full ACC, but with the option of specifying the legal speed limit as the target speed instead of selecting your own target speed. In other words, in this setting, the car will always drive at the maximum allowed speed unless a slower vehicle is in front.
And if course, it will suddenly slow down (or speed up) without warning everytime it encounters a section of road where the speed limit data supplied by Google or captued by the camera is wrong.
This will be a very useful feature for me; I live in an area with many miles of 'average speed zones'.
My previous car (a pretty basic 2019 VW Polo) had a simple speed limiter (not even traditional Cruise Control), but I found the feature so useful by being able to set a maximum speed at any time. Now this expansion of ACC will be a great evolution and will provide the protections for safety and license.
I have given up on ACC and now use the manual speed limiter as a cruise control instead.
ACC is not good enough. The speed limiter is better for avoiding speeding. You can set the speed limiter to the correct speed limit, not an erroneous automated one
I have found it is easier and more pleasurable to set the manual speed limiter to the speed you want, and then keep the accelerator pressed - the car will cruise at the speed you want, but no faster (give ir take 2mph). You can then slow down and speed up to the selected speed easily and smoothly.
Yes doing this requires you to keep your foot on the accelerator, but is that really a hardship? After 2 or 3 hours you need to stop for a recharge anyway.
2024 EX30 Ultra - single motor - extended range - Onyx Black (UK)
I hope a limit can still be set manually when in ACC. The speed limit detection is so inaccurate to be useless and the camaras seldom detect road signs. And the speed indication is 2 or 3kph high so if the limiter adjusts to what the car thinks the limit is, it’s well under the legal limit.
So many seem to be delighted to have CarPlay but I don’t know why – never having used it, presumably it does something useful that the car doesn’t already do?
But my understanding is ACC will be a fixed choice, either you choose a fixed speed and the car ignores speed limits, or you choose the speed limit option, and the car aims to stay at what it thinks is the speed limit, right or wrong.
That is why I prefer the speed limiter. The driver has full control.
The only problem is it defaults to ACC everytime you switch on (or open the drivers door) and you have to go into Settings/Controls to reset the setting to speed limiter.
As for Car Play, as a Samsung owner, I have no interest in it at all. However I am glad that those who want it are now getting it.
2024 EX30 Ultra - single motor - extended range - Onyx Black (UK)
Is anyone else checking the app on an hourly basis (I may be exaggerating slightly, but only slightly!) hoping the 1.4.2 update appears ’ready to install’? I am very much looking forward to CarPlay so I have proper access to bbc sounds and podcasts etc rather than just via Bluetooth.
EX30 Ultra twin motor performance, Cloud Blue, Mist interior. 1.4.2 UK
If this follows the same pattern as previous OTA updates, it won’t actually start going out to people for 2-3 weeks. I believe if you can’t wait you can go to your dealer to get them to update it for you, but I have surprisingly not seen on here / Reddit anyone saying their dealers even have it yet.
