Another interesting thing I've noticed about the cruise control is that it allows enough regen to keep the battery at 100%. I've seen a bar of regen even on a slight downhill. If I were controlling the throttle, I could cancel that out and probably do better, but at some point you have to pay for the assist you use during acceleration (it's hard to accelerate w/o assist unless you are very patient).

Driving at 60 miles per hour is a strange experience on California freeways. I was driving in the middle lane and I felt like a log stuck in a river; all of the other cars were flowing around me on both sides