Anyone else hate the auto-stop feature of newer cars?

[jmowreader]

78. I like it a lot

I never did like the idea that you have to sit at stoplights, drive-throughs etc., burning gas and pumping pollutants into the air for no fucking reason. On the VW Tiguan I have, the engine restarts when you start lifting your foot off the brake, so by the time you have the brakes far enough released that the car will move, it’s running.

My car also has the Adaptive Cruise Control, and this is really nice. There are two fun things that it does.

First, it has a radar in the car’s nose - the antenna is behind the logo on the grille - that measures the speed and distance of the car in front of you. If there is one, when you get to a certain distance behind him - you can choose the distance - it slows you down to his speed so you don’t run him over. If necessary it will slow you to a halt, like you’d need in rush hour traffic. If the car automatically stops, you just tap the gas pedal to resume driving.

The other is it displays the speed setting. You can program the speed you want while stopped, and once you reach 20 mph push the “resume” button and it takes you to that speed. This may only be available on VWs with the “digital cockpit” dashboard, but that’s in all new VWs. Two years ago it was only in the top trim levels.