Caravan overturned on M5 on Good Friday

SteveL

So they 'are' club members then?

Good point, they must be as it is members only.

Lutz

It is that reluctance of drivers to stop the cruise control that makes them dangerous kit. Whether button, brake or clutch would disengage it, the driver just keeps on going. It saves effort, you see, in having to push a button to engage it again.

Nice to see a few people reporting that their vehicle under cruise control does not speed up when going downhill. The systems must have been refined to apply brakes as they used to just run faster and faster.

Not only do they brake when going downhill, but also if the set speed is reduced. They don't just allow the car to slow down of its own accord like when you take your foot off the accelerator.

EmilysDad

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Not only do they brake when going downhill, but also if the set speed is reduced. They don't just allow the car to slow down of its own accord like when you take your foot off the accelerator.

That depends Lutz. My 07 Merc does as you said, but SWMBO's 60 plate Citroen C3 does not 

JVB66

Our Sportage "slows us" when in cruise on down grades and if i  reduce the speed on the buttons really noticeable with van on hook

Surfer

A number of posts refer to drivers joining the motorway at inappropriate speeds, but what about the muppets leaving the motorway who come flying past you to squeeze in the gap between you and the vehicle in front and then brake as their speed does not match
the speed of the car in front of them. 

This in turn causes you to brake a bit more sharply than necessary and the muppet then turns off onto the slip road anyway.

SteveL

Yes I do find that both annoying and dangerous. It is not as though it has not been advertised for the last mile.

davetommo

Just checked on Google and it came up with this report.

see here

One of the comments from another reader was;

“Basically the Caravan club consists of old gits going 5 miles from home on a weekend to sit in a field and compare awnings whilst Doris pops back home in the car coz shes forgotten the tea bags. Basically they should be taxed and people should have a test
to tow the thing and if they are found to be driving like a muppit they should be re tested at major cost . I saw one go over on the M42 few years back nothing left of it right mess to clear up.”

Is that realy what some folk think of us?

Jeremy Clarkson does