Speed limiter stalk and it's silly lamp.

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Apr 4, 2015 | 04:02 PM

ManiacGT

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Speed limiter stalk and it's silly lamp.

So twice now I've entered a motorway and not been able to speed up because I've had the limiter on prior to the motorway slip.

Why put a limited lamp on the cruise stalk that you can't see because it's under the steering wheel? How silly.

It should be repeated on the console display. The only way for me to tell if limit or cruise is active is to put my head under the steering wheel which is just a tad dangerous on the move.

Apr 4, 2015 | 04:59 PM

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Mine displays the Icon and the set speed on the top left hand corner of the display where the Cruise control values are shown.

I agree that the light on the stalk is completely useless, I usually ask my passenger (if I have one) if the lamp is on.

Apr 4, 2015 | 05:04 PM

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Thing is that the limit speed is only shown when you set the speed. You've no idea if the car is in cruise or limit until you try to set the speed.

Apr 4, 2015 | 09:05 PM

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What's a speed limiter?

What's a speed limiter? No cruise control that I have encountered ever prevented me from accelerating without limit when I stepped on the gas.

Apr 5, 2015 | 04:25 AM

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What's a speed limiter? No cruise control that I have encountered ever prevented me from accelerating without limit when I stepped on the gas.

You have the option (by pressing the end of the stalk) to either: a) use as a Cruise control, or b) as a Speed Limiter - very handy in urban areas, or other speed limited roads, where you have stop/start traffic or lights/roundabouts etc - it means you can accelerate normally, but cap you speed at whatever limit you decide.

Apr 5, 2015 | 07:31 AM

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What's a speed limiter? No cruise control that I have encountered ever prevented me from accelerating without limit when I stepped on the gas.

It is the Speedtronic feature that US cars do not have (at least has been like that in the past).

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Thing is that the limit speed is only shown when you set the speed. You've no idea if the car is in cruise or limit until you try to set the speed.

Indeed, I thought you had missed the segment display but it only shows the permanent speed limiter range, not the one you set from the CC stalk.

This is what we get when a few people complained how the blinker and CC stalks were placed. Now they are like on most other cars, which is not good at all.

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Apr 5, 2015 | 04:49 PM

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So twice now I've entered a motorway and not been able to speed up because I've had the limiter on prior to the motorway slip. ...

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IThis is what we get when a few people complained how the blinker and CC stalks were placed. Now they are like on most other cars, which is not good at all.

Definately not on my U.S. C300. I have Distronic Plus with Heads-up Display. The speed set on the Distronic cruise control shows in the Heads-up Display. This speed limiter sounds dangerous, as the experiences described by ManiacGT seem to confirm.
The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) wants all the stalks on the steering column in the same places, doing the same thing.
I am surprised the NHTSA does't do the same for headlight controls. I once was driving a rental car a sunny day and drove into a unlighted tunnel! I hadn't checked out the location of the headlight switch, and there were no other vehicles to follow. Just as thought that I was going to have to simply stop (black car, unlit in an unlighted tunnel!), the other end of the tunnel appeared and I could drive toward that. Never again will I fail to check out the location of the headlight switch!