THAT is an improvement.
Yet that improvement also hard brakes your car when the car in front of you is turning. Even though you know it will be gone by the time you pass it. But overall, I agree with you. Regular cruise control never works when you come up with a car going slower.
Absolutely. I do occasionally use it on back roads, but in those situations, I am going along to get along, in no rush, and if the car slows down, I don’t mind if it slows me down too...
As someone else said, when someone cuts into your lane on the highway in front of you at speed...THAT can be a problem.
I also use the adaptive cruise control on non-highway situations when there is NOBODY on the road, and also when I use it to precisely control my speed when going through an area known for high speed limit enforcement.
I think all these features should be wholly voluntary. However it did occur to me that your car is recording ALL these parameters for some time frame (could be days or even a week) so if you got into an accident, even if the visible footage is not available, information about how many times your vehicle jammed on the brakes, how many times your alarm went off because you crossed the centerline, etc. could be subpoenaed.
And if you turned it off because it was annoying and you rear ended a car, that could probably be used against you as well.
I hate it. Hate all of it.