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Originally Posted by ali2015
i will use the cruise control tomorrow and see if it makes any difference to the mpg.
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If there are hills on your route, an attentive driver will be able to beat the mileage that cruise control gets. Why? Because the cruise does exactly the
opposite thing you want it do if efficiency is your goal: it adds power on the way up the hills and engine brakes down the back side, all to maintain speed.
An efficient driver will bleed off speed on the way up (depending on circumstances/traffic), and regain it on the other side.
That's why one of our memmbers developed a "load sensitive" cruise control with MPG programming logic:
http://ecomodder.com/forum/showthrea...ogic-2031.html