RHO for Tim

Dusdaddy said:
One great feature of ACC that I stumbled into. My son was following me home from hunting camp and I was pulling our trailer. I was speeding up on downhills and slowing down on corners and uphills. He was able to just set it and forget it and stay at a nice even distance from me the whole time without doing anything. So, when following someone, you let them set their cruise to whatever and you just overshoot their speed but let the ACC keep you right on their butt effortlessly.
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That's really the main way I use my ACC. I set it to a few MPH faster than the traffic and set my follow distance. It will bring me to a full stop and resume, if I sit for a while I have to tap the speed controller up and it resumes from a stop. The only time I don't like it is in hilly terrain or when someone gets in front of me. It kills the momentum, which is where the lower MPG comes from, whereas I could have judged it safe to just keep going and maintain my speed before the hill or knew that person was clearing my lane.
 
Dusdaddy said:
Yep. Even the Ranger Raptor or Chevy ZR2 works with clutches. Basically, anything with the 4wd Auto has to. One exception I've heard is the full-size Raptor. In Auto it uses clutches but has a mechanical lock for 4H/4L.

But I'd still take a 4wd Auto over not, just too damn convenient.
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Thank you!
 
Dusdaddy said:
One great feature of ACC that I stumbled into. My son was following me home from hunting camp and I was pulling our trailer. I was speeding up on downhills and slowing down on corners and uphills. He was able to just set it and forget it and stay at a nice even distance from me the whole time without doing anything. So, when following someone, you let them set their cruise to whatever and you just overshoot their speed but let the ACC keep you right on their butt effortlessly.
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That does sound kinda nice. I do it quite often, but I'm usually pulling a trailer and have always been gun shy about using cruise control or ACC while towing.
 
testerdahl said:
You should see my TikTok. The times you can or shouldn’t use cruise control is a hot debate with loads of “experts.” 😂
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That's funny! It's like how they get worked up over your RHO not having regular cruise.

There are so many damn variables you'd have to consider before judging that. Terrain, truck size relative to trailer, type of trailer, etc. If I'm towing lighter where every little incline doesn't kill my speed, I use cruise often. If I were out in Tim's country where it's flatter, I'd use it more. When I'm heavy, I don't use it as much as I'd rather keep a steady RPM than speed.
 
Dusdaddy said:
That's funny! It's like how they get worked up over your RHO not having regular cruise.

There are so many damn variables you'd have to consider before judging that. Terrain, truck size relative to trailer, type of trailer, etc. If I'm towing lighter where every little incline doesn't kill my speed, I use cruise often. If I were out in Tim's country where it's flatter, I'd use it more. When I'm heavy, I don't use it as much as I'd rather keep a steady RPM than speed.
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What kills me are the number of people who think you should NEVER use cruise control in basically the winter. I said in “certain conditions” in the video and they are adamant that anytime there is snow, you never use cruise control. When I point out the issue isn’t the snow on the road, but the snow build up on the truck blocking the sensors, I get “well, just pull over and brush it off!”

Yeah, I want to stop, clean off the truck just to use cruise control. Gee great. Never mind the ice build up. Why do I want to use a car wash during a road trip? I don’t and I shouldn’t have to.
 
testerdahl said:
What kills me are the number of people who think you should NEVER use cruise control in basically the winter. I said in “certain conditions” in the video and they are adamant that anytime there is snow, you never use cruise control. When I point out the issue isn’t the snow on the road, but the snow build up on the truck blocking the sensors, I get “well, just pull over and brush it off!”

Yeah, I want to stop, clean off the truck just to use cruise control. Gee great. Never mind the ice build up. Why do I want to use a car wash during a road trip? I don’t and I shouldn’t have to.
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I use cruise in snow all the time. I judge based on the actual road condition. It's what the internet has created. If a video gets made and everyone jumps on that bandwagon by supporting the video, then it becomes fact regardless of the truth. And everyone who agrees feels part of the "right side" of the coin and will defend it adamantly. The other part that is so bad is that everyone wants an absolute when there are so many conditions. The fact that one scenario may be optimal but something less is perfectly acceptable.

The thing that make your videos so great is what drives the keyboard-commandos nuts. You explain things, make complaints or praise from a common sense, average person's perspective. They want the extreme "only one way to think about it" approach.
 
testerdahl said:
What kills me are the number of people who think you should NEVER use cruise control in basically the winter. I said in “certain conditions” in the video and they are adamant that anytime there is snow, you never use cruise control. When I point out the issue isn’t the snow on the road, but the snow build up on the truck blocking the sensors, I get “well, just pull over and brush it off!”

Yeah, I want to stop, clean off the truck just to use cruise control. Gee great. Never mind the ice build up. Why do I want to use a car wash during a road trip? I don’t and I shouldn’t have to.
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That's why I appreciate when you can bounce between regular and ACC.
 
Hey Tim,
Just watching your pod cast about the ram 1500 with c-Tech. Re: voice commands
Turn on your wake word in your truck (like hey Ram).
Say Hey Ram, Turn on Driver’s heated seat
Or
Hey Ram, Turn on heated steering wheel.
You can also turn completely off with one command as well.
 
James-kd2cm said:
Hey Tim,
Just watching your pod cast about the ram 1500 with c-Tech. Re: voice commands
Turn on your wake word in your truck (like hey Ram).
Say Hey Ram, Turn on Driver’s heated seat
Or
Hey Ram, Turn on heated steering wheel.
You can also turn completely off with one command as well.
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Yup, I thought you could and I tried it today myself. Works pretty good.
 
testerdahl said:
Yup, I thought you could and I tried it today myself. Works pretty good.
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I hadn’t tried it until you mentioned it on your podcast. You’re right… works pretty well. Nice for turning off the seat heater for me … 3 heat levels. I had wondered what I could do with the built in voice commands. I had been to lazy to explore them before…sigh
 
James-kd2cm said:
I hadn’t tried it until you mentioned it on your podcast. You’re right… works pretty well. Nice for turning off the seat heater for me … 3 heat levels. I had wondered what I could do with the built in voice commands. I had been to lazy to explore them before…sigh
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Same. I don’t use voice commands at all, but they can work well. I’m just old.
 
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