VW ID.3

Energia rip off their existing customers to pay for their new customers, have you looked to see if their EV rate of 5. something cent is still available ? Their day rate is a good bit more expensive though with their EV rate last time I checked.

You're in Istanbul ? lol WTF

I can hardly manage to get less than 19 Kwh/100 km but short trips that I've been doing the last week and preheating not plugged in take their toll + using travel assist, or even adaptive cruise isn't the most energy efficient on long runs as it can't read the road ahead only the car in front. But don't care with so much Kwh I'm not at all bothered, nearly 4000 kms and has cost me 10 Euro's or less with work charging! 😁

+ I don't have the heat less than 22-23 degrees. You have it what, 19 ? lol.

The red light warning means "brake immediately" I got this a few times even with travel assist on the N7 where the traffic can go from 0-100 and back to 0 in a split second. Maybe it would have braked and maybe it wouldn't but not worth the risk.

In this kind of traffic I can see the cars in front brake hard and manually slow down where as the car can only see the car in front.

But, I thought this anti collision stuff was supposed to prevent rear ending cars and stopping accidents in general, I guess not.

Most of the time travel assist or should I say adaptive cruise control is a dream but this kind of driving where traffic goes from 0-100 and back to 0 I think is beyond the abilities of adaptive cruise control.

It would be nice to think that those stuck in their phones while driving and have cars with adaptive cruise or even car with emergency brake or whatever would be capable of preventing an accident but I guess not.

What we will need probably are cars that communicate with each other in some form so that your car knows the cars ahead are slowing down before it only sees the car ahead at the last second and throws a wobbler and turns on that red light warning.

I used to have the adaptive cruise set closest to the car in front but I backed it off a bit and it really made a difference because the car has more time to "think" and it doesn't what appears to lamp on the brakes as much as before, it's more gentle.

I use travel assist on the M50 and N7 all the time in the worst of traffic it's actually grand once you pick a lane and stay in it and just watch the road ahead it manages superbly in most circumstances and I wouldn't be without it now.

In the slowest of traffic 10 Km/hr or less I don't even need to touch the wheel. Though maybe after a set time it will bug you again.

I'm more used to what it can and can't do and it's designed for the M50/N7 gridlock kind of traffic too, yes of course you have to be watching because as I said earlier, it can't see the traffic ahead, only the car in front so if they brake very hard from say 100, then you might need to intervene, I think this is the only real situation where I was scared at first but I'm not scared any more because I know it's rather extreme for the car to slow down in time when traffic comes to a stop quickly because there is no way for the car to see the traffic ahead so I observe and prepare to intervene.

What did help a lot was to leave a good bit more space from the car in front, I had it set to minimum distance which is fine when traffic is flowing feely at speed without huge volumes but I think in commuter N7/M50 traffic it works a lot better setting the car further away on the adaptive cruise, it does annoy some drivers in the right lane though and think everyone should drive on top of the other car and will even undertake me to fill this gap all just to get one space ahead of me so they can drive up the rear end of the next car, some really big idiots out there.