MossRoad
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- Joined
- Aug 31, 2001
- Messages
- 60,184
- Location
- South Bend, Indiana (near)
- Tractor
- Power Trac PT425 2001 Model Year
We put about 300 miles of mixed driving on the 2020 Outback today. Residential streets to freeway and everything in between.
Overall, very satisfied with the way things work, fit, finish, etc.
Plugged my phone into the USB and the HUGE touchscreen was great with google maps from the phone.
Got to use all of the driving features.
The lane departure warning works well. Has an audible beep. Shows lane lines changing to orange on the display as you look through the steering wheel. And some orange LEDs display on the windshield.
One thing we noticed was when you go through an intersection for side streets that have to stop, and you don't, at highway speeds, there's a break in the lane lines on the sides of the road, because, well, a road is crossing. Sometimes it beeps a warning. Kinda interesting.
Another thing we noticed is that DRY SALT LINES on the road confuses teh lane keep assist. We've had bouts of snow and ice the past few weeks, so the roads were heavily salted. Today was dry and sunny. So in many places, the tires had thrown the salt to the sides and centers of the lanes. They looked just like faint white stripes. Now along comes a truck and takes a while to change lanes, so they clear a couple hundred long diagonal across the salt line while changing lanes.
The car does not like that and tries to keep in what it thinks are the lines.
I turned it off and just used the lane departure feature.
Once the salt lines went away, I switched it back on and it works very well.
Adaptive cruse control I had set on MAX, which is really far out in front of you. About 5 seconds behind the car you're following. I bumped it down to the middle of the five settings and that put me just a speck over the 2 seconds that I like to follow at. Works great. I find myself passing less people as it follows them at a safe distance and doesn't vary much at all.
We got around 32-33mpg on the highways.
It was a windy day and the car held the road nicely.
Overall, very satisfied with the way things work, fit, finish, etc.
Plugged my phone into the USB and the HUGE touchscreen was great with google maps from the phone.
Got to use all of the driving features.
The lane departure warning works well. Has an audible beep. Shows lane lines changing to orange on the display as you look through the steering wheel. And some orange LEDs display on the windshield.
One thing we noticed was when you go through an intersection for side streets that have to stop, and you don't, at highway speeds, there's a break in the lane lines on the sides of the road, because, well, a road is crossing. Sometimes it beeps a warning. Kinda interesting.
Another thing we noticed is that DRY SALT LINES on the road confuses teh lane keep assist. We've had bouts of snow and ice the past few weeks, so the roads were heavily salted. Today was dry and sunny. So in many places, the tires had thrown the salt to the sides and centers of the lanes. They looked just like faint white stripes. Now along comes a truck and takes a while to change lanes, so they clear a couple hundred long diagonal across the salt line while changing lanes.
The car does not like that and tries to keep in what it thinks are the lines.
I turned it off and just used the lane departure feature.
Once the salt lines went away, I switched it back on and it works very well.
Adaptive cruse control I had set on MAX, which is really far out in front of you. About 5 seconds behind the car you're following. I bumped it down to the middle of the five settings and that put me just a speck over the 2 seconds that I like to follow at. Works great. I find myself passing less people as it follows them at a safe distance and doesn't vary much at all.
We got around 32-33mpg on the highways.
It was a windy day and the car held the road nicely.