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if you've ever been the driver on a long road trip you've probably wished at some

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point that you could just kick back and let the car drive itself unfortunately

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autonomous vehicles are still a ways away from becoming Mass market items and

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so the closest thing we have right now is cruise control which is convenient

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but won't exactly drive the car for you as a few people in those urban legends

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who thought they could set the cruise control in the RV and then go in the back and make a sandwich found out but

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even so cruise control is becoming a much more useful tool with the Advent of

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adaptive cruise control which has found its way into many modern vehicles unlike

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old school cruise control which allowed your car to maintain one constant speed

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newer adaptive cruise control systems have the ability to adjust your car

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speed on the Fly and therefore increase safety but how does that work adaptive

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cruise control is often implemented on cars using radar although some use

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lasers radar is more common since it works better in adverse weather

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conditions usually the radar is mounted on the front of the car near the bumper

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or behind the grill so when you turn the cruise control on your car will fire a

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radar beam which travels until it hits another vehicle in front of you the

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return signal is processed by a computer to determine how far behind the second

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car you are the cruise control uses this information to keep your car a set

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number of seconds behind by dynamically changing your speed

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this gives you the advantage of not having to break and readjust your cruise

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control if you get stuck behind a car that's moving slowly or frequently

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Alters its speed and also helps mitigate the effect of normal cruise control

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lulling you into a false sense of security potentially slowing your

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reaction time in the event that there is a sudden change in speed required now

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many adaptive cruise control systems also feature collision avoidance where

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the car can automatically break more aggressively if it senses that you're

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getting way too close to another vehicle or object you'll also often get an audio

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or a visual warning that you're about to hit something much like professional

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Pilots have in their planes to let them know they're getting too close to other

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air traffic or say for example a volcano some adaptive cruise control systems can

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even work with other Technologies to give you even more features for example

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a system that's designed to work with GPS could automatically slow down if

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you're in a construction zone that the GPS knows about or help to control your

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speed more effectively on Hills since the system will know what the terrain

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ahead looks like improving not only safety but gas mileage as well and of

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course when we do start buying autonomous cars on mass adaptive cruise

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control like systems will be very important for actually keeping the car

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where you want it on the road so you don't end up in the back of a semi-truck

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like those cops in The Blues Brothers for now though it's not surprising that

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adaptive cruise control like many optional features they try to sell you

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down at the old car NE ship don't come

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cheap as it's usually an add-on that will set you back a couple thousand but

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it might just be worth it for you if you're an inattentive driver with some

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money to burn or maybe you'll even get one of those super slick salesmen who

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will sweeten the deal with some of the those free floor mats and uh

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