Microlise

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the nodding donkey:

the maoster:

Winseer:
“Eco Drive” on a scumia…

Climbing a reasonably steep hill @ 50 on cruise with half a load, goes into eco roll just before reaching the crest…

The person behind you is rather alarmed that you’ve just slowed down from 50 to 30-35mph without braking, and has to now swerve out to avoid going up your arse…

In my mind then “Eco roll” - isn’t safe.

This where an on the ball driver will anticipate that his vehicle is about to shut the throttle and either (a) do nothing because he knows that there’s nothing following him close enough to be inconvenienced, or (b) he/she will intercede and apply the throttle themselves. You do realise that you can still manually intercede don’t you?

My present employer uses microlise (as did my previous), and did mention to me that some of my scores where not quite where microlise reconned that they should be…

I explained, with a few consice examples, that microlise only deals with hypothetical situations, and not real world driving. This is proven every time, because my microlise score may be crap, but my fuel mileage is always in the top three, and I don’t come back with bits hanging of my truck…

On top of that, I now complain loudly about the fact that my microlise truck won’t let me use the gearbox in manual mode, when I could do much better than the craptros box… They agree… :open_mouth:

TOSCO Life deep joy

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Eco roll in my MAN gets turned off straight away when I start
I can also select manual and change up and down gears at my wish
I don’t go in to major worry mode if my tuck goes over 56mph going down a hill
Also the MAN collision avoidance system is no where as sensitve as a Merc or DAF so I don’t get thrown through the windscreen because a lead has fluttered by the sensor [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]

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blue estate:
Eco roll in my MAN gets turned off straight away when I start
I can also select manual and change up and down gears at my wish
I don’t go in to major worry mode if my tuck goes over 56mph going down a hill
Also the MAN collision avoidance system is no where as sensitve as a Merc or DAF so I don’t get thrown through the windscreen because a lead has fluttered by the sensor [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]

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P/s I don’t turn of collision avoidance

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blue estate:

blue estate:
Eco roll in my MAN gets turned off straight away when I start
I can also select manual and change up and down gears at my wish
I don’t go in to major worry mode if my tuck goes over 56mph going down a hill
Also the MAN collision avoidance system is no where as sensitve as a Merc or DAF so I don’t get thrown through the windscreen because a lead has fluttered by the sensor [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]

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P/s I don’t turn of collision avoidance

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The collision avoidance on an Actros, does actually stop you when you approach that dodgy road sign??

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DAF95XF:

blue estate:

blue estate:
Eco roll in my MAN gets turned off straight away when I start
I can also select manual and change up and down gears at my wish
I don’t go in to major worry mode if my tuck goes over 56mph going down a hill
Also the MAN collision avoidance system is no where as sensitve as a Merc or DAF so I don’t get thrown through the windscreen because a lead has fluttered by the sensor [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]

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P/s I don’t turn of collision avoidance

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The collision avoidance on an Actros, does actually stop you when you approach that dodgy road sign??

Or the car that has already turned off in to side street [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]

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blue estate:

DAF95XF:

blue estate:

blue estate:
Eco roll in my MAN gets turned off straight away when I start
I can also select manual and change up and down gears at my wish
I don’t go in to major worry mode if my tuck goes over 56mph going down a hill
Also the MAN collision avoidance system is no where as sensitve as a Merc or DAF so I don’t get thrown through the windscreen because a lead has fluttered by the sensor [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]

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P/s I don’t turn of collision avoidance

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The collision avoidance on an Actros, does actually stop you when you approach that dodgy road sign??

Or the car that has already turned off in to side street [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]

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Or that rogue branch out of the bush lol

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Sooo… What mark against does Microlise give you for a head-on collision detected then? Not “Theoretical” but actual. :stuck_out_tongue:

“Road collisions today :1: Z”
Must try harder, recommend re-training session, and repeating module 8 of DCPC

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Winseer:
Sooo… What mark against does Microlise give you for a head-on collision detected then? Not “Theoretical” but actual. :stuck_out_tongue:

“Road collisions today :1: Z”
Must try harder, recommend re-training session, and repeating module 8 of DCPC

Ha ha, if anybody could tell me how to stop getting harsh accelerations on my tug-test, please let me know :laughing:

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ezydriver:

Winseer:
Sooo… What mark against does Microlise give you for a head-on collision detected then? Not “Theoretical” but actual. :stuck_out_tongue:

“Road collisions today :1: Z”
Must try harder, recommend re-training session, and repeating module 8 of DCPC

Ha ha, if anybody could tell me how to stop getting harsh accelerations on my tug-test, please let me know :laughing:

Or harsh steering hitting a pothole

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