Hill Start Assist has been driving me mad!
HSA holds the brakes on for about 3 seconds if you're on a hill and come to a complete stop. For automatic transmissions, it engages on an 8% slope; for manual, at 3%.
Kudos, Jeep engineers, on the effort. I think it will help me teach the woman of the house to drive stick. But damn, the implementation needs a little work.
I - with a couple decades of experience in the Way of the Clutch - have stalled out and peeled out more times in the past 5 days in my brand-new Patriot than I have in the past 5 years in every other vehicle I've driven.
Driving around on fairly level ground, all day, I discover where I need to set the throttle and clutch to get rolling. Then I try to get started from a 3% grade. I apply that throttle and clutch, and immediately stall out, as if I had the e-brake set. Whoops! The next time, I'm a little slower on the clutch, and a little faster on the throttle, but I haven't yet overcome the brakes activated by the HSA, so I give it even more gas, then even more. Then, that bastard HSA slips the brakes off, and SCREECH, I burn the tires! I feel like I'm 12 again, learning how to drive Granddad's tractor!
Fortunately, those Jeep engineers did something incredibly smart: They programmed an "Off" button for that evil "feature"! :2thumbsup:
You know what would be really useful? A button to actuate this system when needed. Press and hold the button while stopped, and the brakes actuate. Release the button, and the brakes release. Press it again, they re-engage. Get above 2-3mph, and the button is disabled.
Barring that, how about a way to tune the system? I think I'd like it at an 8% grade, and if it only held the brakes for a moment.
HSA holds the brakes on for about 3 seconds if you're on a hill and come to a complete stop. For automatic transmissions, it engages on an 8% slope; for manual, at 3%.
Kudos, Jeep engineers, on the effort. I think it will help me teach the woman of the house to drive stick. But damn, the implementation needs a little work.
I - with a couple decades of experience in the Way of the Clutch - have stalled out and peeled out more times in the past 5 days in my brand-new Patriot than I have in the past 5 years in every other vehicle I've driven.
Driving around on fairly level ground, all day, I discover where I need to set the throttle and clutch to get rolling. Then I try to get started from a 3% grade. I apply that throttle and clutch, and immediately stall out, as if I had the e-brake set. Whoops! The next time, I'm a little slower on the clutch, and a little faster on the throttle, but I haven't yet overcome the brakes activated by the HSA, so I give it even more gas, then even more. Then, that bastard HSA slips the brakes off, and SCREECH, I burn the tires! I feel like I'm 12 again, learning how to drive Granddad's tractor!
Fortunately, those Jeep engineers did something incredibly smart: They programmed an "Off" button for that evil "feature"! :2thumbsup:
To the Jeep engineers reading this, it's a good start. I will use it when teaching someone to use a manual transmission.
You know what would be really useful? A button to actuate this system when needed. Press and hold the button while stopped, and the brakes actuate. Release the button, and the brakes release. Press it again, they re-engage. Get above 2-3mph, and the button is disabled.
Barring that, how about a way to tune the system? I think I'd like it at an 8% grade, and if it only held the brakes for a moment.