Was going to ask the same question - cruise control is for open roads like motorways. Not around town. No wonder they had issues with it.

There’s often cars parked on the side of the road on highways in NZ… Its also incredibly useful in stop and go traffic and sometimes I’m too lazy to turn it off after the traffic ends, until it randomly brakes for a parked car 😅

Because it reduces reaction time? If you set the cruise control and cover the brake with your foot then you have a faster braking response than if you have to switch pedals first.

Maybe you don’t. But ancestor post is suggesting to make it mandatory to avoid tail gating and then it had better work properly.

You can generally relax or turn off the setting but it takes going through annoying menus

Ah true, yeah I test drove a polestar and a Hyundai ioniq 5 before deciding to go with the bmw and they both worked a lot better, but were also way more expensive since they were new and the bmw was second hand 😅

Unfortunately there weren’t any second hand phev volvos available in my area at the time.

My car had a recall on it for braking too much. Probably a software issue that can be fixed, or has been fixed in newer models.