Set your speed and the CR - V slows down when
it approaches slower traffic, and speeds up again when the road is clear.
On the highway, it is quiet and stable, adaptive cruise control and lane keep assist helping to share the workload of small steering corrections and throttle and braking adjustments, and the long - range sensors work well to ease off speed as
you approach slower traffic.
Not exact matches
Ben has pioneered a number of new
approaches to
traffic engineering and street design in the UK and mainland Europe, finding ways to
slow speeds, improve safety and reduce highway clutter.
Depending on trim, you can get blind spot monitoring with rear cross
traffic alert, an electric parking brake, an around view camera system, and a sonar system that detects objects
approaching from the front and behind in low speed situations and works with a rear cross
traffic braking system to alert the driver and can
slow the car if necessary.
With little interruption from
slower traffic, the complexities of this road - like circuit emphasise the need for a tidy
approach, keeping the car nicely balanced with no sudden, spiky, unsettling inputs.
It's worse in busy
traffic with a lot of stopping and starting or at a
slow speeds such as
approaching traffic lights, however in recent months it's started happening on dual carriage ways and motorways at 60 - 70mph.
When driving in
slow - moving
traffic or
traffic jams, the driver is able to safely move along with the flow of
traffic and let the vehicle's automatic systems handle the tasks of stopping, pulling away again and
approaching junctions where there are already vehicles waiting ahead.
Queue warning systems are designed to quickly detect the presence of queues at the work zone and warning
approaching motorists that
traffic is
slowed or stopped ahead.
Speaking of absent - minded, one more convenient safety feature is the available Adaptive Cruise Control with Stop and Go technology that can
slow the vehicle down while on cruise control if
approaching another vehicle quickly and can even bring the car to a stop, or try to, if that other car isn't moving, such as an abrupt
traffic jam while on the highway.
With this paddle and a bit of foresight, I could
slow the car when
approaching a
traffic light or prepare for a curve without touching the brake pedal.
To aid the driver on road trips or just the daily commute is an adaptive cruise control with stop which automatically adjusts the Durango's speed as you
approach slower moving
traffic and can even bring the SUV to a complete stop.
As they
approach the spiral arms, they
slow down and cause a «stellar
traffic jam».
When
traffic control signals are not in place or not in operation the driver of a vehicle shall yield the right of way,
slowing down or stopping if need be so to yield, to a pedestrian crossing the roadway within a crosswalk marked in accordance with standards established by the department of highways if the pedestrian is on that half of the traveled part of the way on which the vehicle is traveling or if the pedestrian
approaches from the opposite half of the traveled part of the way to within 10 feet of that half of the traveled part of the way on which said vehicle is traveling.
Our Highway
Traffic Act states that, upon
approaching an emergency vehicle or tow truck that is stopped with its emergency lights activated, a driver travelling on the same side of the highway must
slow down or stop before proceeding with caution.
Striking a barricade, barrel or other obstacles on the roadway can lead to overcorrection accidents, and drivers (especially truck drivers) frequently cause accidents due to failing to control their speed as they
approach traffic slowed or stopped due to road construction.
As another semi-truck
approached the backed - up
traffic, the driver failed to
slow down and ran into the back of a stopped truck.
C. Training begins with or verification of basic vehicle control, safe and legal lane changes, safe and legal right and left turns, safe following distance and safe /
slow approach to stopped
traffic.
You will learn to always look ahead and
slow down when
approaching traffic congestion.