Made the mistake of thinking the drive from Auckland to Napier would be better later on Good Friday, not Thursday. Seven hours later, finally arrived (normal drive time is five hours), even with using the live traffic info and not getting onto motorway until Bombay.
Luckily I was in a decent car, with all the mod cons or it would have been much worse.
The driver assist / radar cruise works really well in traffic jams, don’t have even touch the wheel below 20kmh. Tested this out quite a bit, including the 3km crawl into Tirau.
When the queues finally died down there were a few opportunities to give it some beans and get past a few of the muppets that decide to get out and about at Easter.
Not sure I’m looking forward to the journey back though...