My beemer did that.
And my Landy has 'Hill Descent Control' which takes it to another level
(literally?).
Jez
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill_Descent_Control_system
On 31 March 2013 12:19, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I did not make myself very clear. The downshifting I was referring to
> was not to maintain speed when going uphill (they all do that). What I
> meant was downshifting to maintain the set speed when going downhill...
> when simply throttling back is insufficient. I know of no other
> vehicles other than Chrysler products that will do that. It seems very
> strange since the inclusion of such a feature is nothing but a small
> amount of firmware.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> On 3/31/2013 5:05 AM, Brian Swale wrote:
> > Chuck wrote
> >> I think the greatest curse is cruise control that can't control the
> >> car's speed on steep hills. That's one reason (there are more) why I'm
> >> glad to be rid of my Toyota Sienna and have replaced it with a Chrysler
> >> Town & Country. AFAIK, only Chrysler products will downshift the
> >> transmission to maintain speed if necessary on steep grades.
> >>
> >> When we were traveling in the mountains of the west in our (then) Buick
> >> Lucerne I remember several times being surprised to discover that I was
> >> going 85-90 mph on some steep mountain roads with cruise control set at
> >> 70-75. That wouldn't happen in my Chrysler LHS and (I assume but not
> >> tested yet) Town & Country.
> >
> > My 17 yo Rangie, in cruise control, for all its faults, can and does
> change
> > down going up a hill if it needs to, and going down a hill will throttle
> back to
> > maintain the required road speed.
> >
> > Brian Swale
> >
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