I relearned today that, (unlike my Toyota), the ND does NOT auto-brake when approaching slow moving traffic at roundabouts, NOR does the handbrake apply automatically when you park up.
Lesson learned . . . 
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That could have been expensive. 
If the MX-5 did either of those things, Iām not sure we could be friends! 
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Think the latest NDās might auto brake as they have adaptive cruise controlā¦ā¦ā¦although you donāt have to use it.
I like nearly all modern safety features in the Toyota except for traffic sign recognition and the beeping if you are doing as little as 1 mph over the signage
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That does highlight the diverging functionality of vehicles, which is likely to become wider. Iām thinking single pedal driving, more only experiencing automatics, lane departure and blind spot warningsā¦.
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What I learned, remembered, today was where Iād put the wheel nut adapter!
Just getting ready for a spring outing when I could not find the said item.
Not in the boot, not in the central locker, no glove box???
Then Eureka, Iād put it with the trombone brushes in the small locker behind the drivers seat!
A lesson learned, Iāll not forget again (hopefully).
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My new Ford work van beeps when you go over the speed limit I donāt mind it apart from the fact it constantly gets the speed limit wrong which drives me nuts! 
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Good grief.
Parking brake, fair enough I suppose. But auto braking? Is that for people who like to nod off?
Iāve driven one car with it, a hired Golf. Apart from braking for me while my foot was actually moving to the brake pedal (what does this teach the driver, donāt bother?) it braked heavily on a dual carriageway when it āsawā a vehicle on an on-slip - and I was in lane 2 at the time.
I had trouble with my wifeās car recently when setting off at some traffic lights on an uphill piece of road. I had let off the handbrake and was holding the car on the footbrake before releasing it as I set off (this is a DSG āautoā). The car wouldnāt move. User error of course. I tried twice before I remembered it has hill hold - it wonāt move until a couple of seconds after the footbrake is released.
Just let me drive the car.
Lane keep assist would ādriveā me nuts.
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We used to be drivers, then they wanted to turn us into motorists, now they want us to be passengers!
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Within reason it is a āGood thingā especially as we age and our reaction times double, triple, quadruple!
I was cut up on a roundabout.
The driver on my left entered it on the āstraight ahead onlyā entry lane, I entered in the āheading for the right exitā lane. He undertakes me, pulls in front to overtake the car that had been in my lane and a safe distance in front but was taking the left-hand exit lane, and he thus swallows my reaction space. He then slams on the brakes for a pedestrian crossing partway down the slip-road.
At 10mph the airbags wrote off my Niseko; Brake-Test failed.
The auto-braking might have given me a chance of survival.
It was all crystal clear on the dash cam and the insurance was generous.
Out of courtesy, and I had eventually calmed down, a month later I asked him how the insurance companies handled his carās damage. He was not happy, because having seen my dash-cam footage, they made him 50% responsible! My underwriters never mentioned that, and it was still a claim on my policy pushing up my premium.
I felt a little bit better after hearing that, but losing my Niseko was like losing a close friend.
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The very reason why i would never use cruise control.
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No adaptive cruise on the ND in our market unfortunately.
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The more I drive Dad around in his Golf which beeps when one gets too close to stuff, the more cautious I have to be when I jump into Madge which mercifully does not beep at all unless I leave the lights on.
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Adaptive cruise works brilliantly on motorways, set it just above the speed limit & forget about speed cameras, I have it on my S3 & would love it on my MX5.
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How does one get away with setting adaptive speed control above speed limit and forgeting about speed cameraās 
I live near a speed camera installation on the M25 and see the speed camera lights going off all night long
Hoping for the 2mph + 10% maybe? Not sure all police forces give that nowadays.
That being said, 70 mph on my Cross is really 68 on the GPS speed app so setting cruise at 72 or so is probably fine.
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If the limit 50 I set it at 53. For the standard 70 I set at 74. I have been doing this for many years, itās much more relaxing not staring at the speedo all the time. The car speeds up & slows down depending on the traffic, it works like magic. Never had a speeding ticket on the Motorway. You are correct the true GPS is always lower.
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In Wales for example there has been a zero tolerance policy for quite some time, not sure Iād like to rely on the better nature of a copper or a automatic speed camera, but each to their own 
I checked my ND speedometer against my Garmin bicycle GPS speedometer and an indicated 70 mph is 67 mph. So it should be safe to cruise at an indicated 75pmh on a dual carriageway or Motorway, traffic and conditions permitting of course.
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Is your Garmin calibrated at that astronomical speed? Iāve cross checked my ND against TomTom GPS and get slightly larger discrepancy of -4mph at 70 indicated. Our Fiat 500 has a larger offset of 5-6 mph.