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Since Bitgoers tend to take better care of their cars than most (normal) people, how many here prefer to take the car out of crise control on large hills where otherwise the car would get after it and drop a few gears to rev higher , on mine, sometimes to 4,000 RPM. When using the gas pedal I can accelerate up the hill just fine without dropping the gears. In my case I was doing 70 mph and it dropped a few gears and suddenly went from 2,100 to 4,000 rpm just to climb up the hill.
I know exactly what you're talking about and I hate it too. The first time it happened to me, yeesh, never let it handle hills again, no thanks. I don't like the feeling.
AFAIK this is intentional and affects some cars when cruise control isn't used at all. For example on most Honda cars with AT's, if you're going down hill and you touch the brakes in a specific way, the AT drops gears shooting the RPM's up. Honda calls it "Grade Logic Control" where on hills it will try to detect them and either drop to lower gears, or maintain a lower gear entirely and never upshift, to make it easier to climb hills and also when descending hills to enhance engine braking.
On my last car, there was a hill on the commute where this would kick in consistently.