<div dir="ltr">Count me among the folk that don't like stop/start. I have more stop signs than traffic lights on my commute, and not much traffic, so most of my stops are usually very brief, just to cover the law, if nothing is coming. The system decides to shut off the engine at pretty much the same instant I am deciding to proceed. Fortunately (for me) my car defaults to "Sport" mode on startup. I can manually choose "Eco" mode which activates stop/start as well as changes shift points and throttle response; or I can go straight to stop/start but leave it in Sport. I find it odd that the car doesn't remember what mode it was in when you shut down. Fortunately the default is also my preferred mode.<div><br></div><div>SO</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 10:28 PM Jim Becker <<a href="mailto:mr.jebecker@gmail.com">mr.jebecker@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div>I hesitate to reply to my own email. It seems a bit
pathological. But here is another quirk that I was reminded shows up in
the Equinox.</div>
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<div>It has the auto stop/start feature that shuts the engine off when you are
in Drive, completely stopped, and your foot is on the brake. It seems like
a reasonable rule for when to stop/start. I understand it bothers some
people but I don’t have a problem with it. The weird thing is when you
pull into a parking place or garage. If you hesitate (and not much) on
pushing it into Park, it will shut the engine off. Then you put it in Park
and it restarts the engine. Then you have to push the button to shut it
back off.</div>
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<div>I have a light in the house that has a similar behavior. My basement
stairs have a switch at the top that controls a ceiling light at the bottom of
the stairs. Illumination at the top of the stairs was tolerable but not
great. I was thinking about fishing a wire from the basement fixture to
the wall above the switch. My brother-in-law suggested getting a motion
and light level detecting battery-powered LED fixture for the top of the stairs,
which I did. The weird thing about it that when you are going up the
stairs and turn the wall switch off. If there was enough light, the LED
would not be on. When you reach the top and turn the light off, the LED
light goes on. After a year and a half, I still am not used to that.</div>
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<div><b>From:</b> <a title="mr.jebecker@gmail.com">Jim
Becker</a> </div>
<div><b>Sent:</b> Friday, January 24, 2020 10:21 PM</div>
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<div><b>Subject:</b> Re: [AT] driver convenience systems</div></div></div>
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<div>That might work. I know that at least on the 2012 Cruz the phone
button on the steering wheel and the phone button on the instrument panel don’t
act exactly the same. My cell phone is usually unreachable in my
pocket. But if it is out and accessible I can initiate a call with the
cell phone then talk through the bluetooth. My wife has found that she can
use google maps turn-by-turn instructions on her phone and have them displayed
on the in-dash display.</div>
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<div>Yes, the Equinox is an upscale version. We decided at our ages the
adaptive cruise, blind spot warning, lane departure etc. might become more
important before wear the car out.</div>
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<div><b>From:</b> <a title="rogerkiwi@gmail.com">Roger
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<div><b>Sent:</b> Friday, January 24, 2020 9:36 PM</div>
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<div>On Jan 24, 2020, at 9:53 PM, Jim Becker
<<a>mr.jebecker@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div><span style="font-size:12px;text-decoration:none;font-family:helvetica;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-transform:none;float:none;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;font-variant-caps:normal;display:inline">Since
my cell phone is paired up with bluetooth and the car has a "built-in" cell
phone as part of onStar, I'm not always sure which phone I'm using. I
know which one it is when it tells me I don't have any minutes, which the
built-in phone never has. I should have said it doesn't let anyone key
an actual phone number on the control panel, evidently regardless of which
phone you are using. I never have been able to use the saved contacts on
my phone either. That may be me, not the system. It will let me
use the contact list of the built-in phone. I am able to answer my phone
through bluetooth, no problem. Some of what I'm remembering may be with
my 2012 Cruz rather than the 2019 equinox, but I think they both behave about
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<div>We can make calls from our Equinox while driving by using the phone's
capabilities when connected to the Equinox - press the phone button on the
steering wheel, and my iPhone’s Siri activates, so I can then say “Call my wife”
and Siri then dials and connects and I speak through the connection on the
car.</div>
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<div>I would assume that if you have an Android phone something similar can be
setup so that you can dial “hands free” by giving voice commands to the phone
through the car.</div>
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<div>From the sounds of other things you say, yours must be a higher level model
- we have rear camera, but no forward camera, and don’t have the steering wheel
nagging at us either.</div>
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<div>Roger</div>
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