Cruise Controls - unintuitive?

[happy days]

Using CC on my car the other day, I was reminded of how unintuitive the controls are. Wouldn't it be more sensible if the controls were

stalk up - increase speed
stalk down - reduce speed
stalk push - resume
stalk pull - cancel

To me they're 90 deg out of sync.

[Paul]

To me, push to go faster, pull back to slow down is fine, like the throttle pedal.

I guess it’s what you’re used to. The biggest frustraion for me is that manufacturers don’t have a common way if doing things. They managed it with indicators / main / dip beam, why not other functions? We have 4 cars on the drive and they are all just that little bit different!

[ScotMac]

I have found Audi and Porsche to be different which seems strange.

[bilun777]

My salesman described it to me as push to go faster/ pull to go slower . Like the throttle pedal,which seems very intuitive to me.
I sometimes hit the indicator stalk when trying to re-engage the CC .

[nsm3]

We have a Q5 with the CC stalk in the same place, but all different control actions. I get into a right pickle, swapping from one to the other!

[Deleted User 1874]

stalk up - increase speed
stalk down - reduce speed
stalk push - resume
stalk pull - cancel

My Tesla is like that, except pull to activate, push to cancel. Also has a twist forward to reduce gap to car in front, twist rearward to increase gap. All very intuitive. Also double pull to activate full Autopilot (throttle, braking and steering control).

[Col Lamb]

Took me a while to get used to the opposite ways of operation compared to the Audi I had prior.

[andreas]

My wife has an Audi TT roadster, and I was surprised to find that my Macan has a totally different way of operating the cruise control. Is the Macan's control done differently just to distinguish it from other cars?

[Macman]

I had a 2011 Merc C Class and a 996.2 at the same time a few years ago. Both stalk cruise control, both completely different operation, I never did get my head around using them, but the Merc seemed more intuitive: up to speed up and down to slow down.

Soon I’ll have my BMW 320d steering wheel buttons plus a Macan with stalk control to contend with First world problems eh?

[Bigboyrolo]

Using CC on my car the other day, I was reminded of how unintuitive the controls are. Wouldn't it be more sensible if the controls were

stalk up - increase speed
stalk down - reduce speed
stalk push - resume
stalk pull - cancel

To me they're 90 deg out of sync.

Same on my Panamera and I guess all Porsche models, and the Panny parking brake is counter-intuitive to me at least. Push in/away to activate, pull towards you to release. Porsche eh! The stuff we have to tolerate!!!!