if you've ever been the driver on a long road trip you've probably wished at some
point that you could just kick back and let the car drive itself unfortunately
autonomous vehicles are still a ways away from becoming Mass market items and
so the closest thing we have right now is cruise control which is convenient
but won't exactly drive the car for you as a few people in those urban legends
who thought they could set the cruise control in the RV and then go in the back and make a sandwich found out but
even so cruise control is becoming a much more useful tool with the Advent of
adaptive cruise control which has found its way into many modern vehicles unlike
old school cruise control which allowed your car to maintain one constant speed
newer adaptive cruise control systems have the ability to adjust your car
speed on the Fly and therefore increase safety but how does that work adaptive
cruise control is often implemented on cars using radar although some use
lasers radar is more common since it works better in adverse weather
conditions usually the radar is mounted on the front of the car near the bumper
or behind the grill so when you turn the cruise control on your car will fire a
radar beam which travels until it hits another vehicle in front of you the
return signal is processed by a computer to determine how far behind the second
car you are the cruise control uses this information to keep your car a set
number of seconds behind by dynamically changing your speed
this gives you the advantage of not having to break and readjust your cruise
control if you get stuck behind a car that's moving slowly or frequently
Alters its speed and also helps mitigate the effect of normal cruise control
lulling you into a false sense of security potentially slowing your
reaction time in the event that there is a sudden change in speed required now
many adaptive cruise control systems also feature collision avoidance where
the car can automatically break more aggressively if it senses that you're
getting way too close to another vehicle or object you'll also often get an audio
or a visual warning that you're about to hit something much like professional
Pilots have in their planes to let them know they're getting too close to other
air traffic or say for example a volcano some adaptive cruise control systems can
even work with other Technologies to give you even more features for example
a system that's designed to work with GPS could automatically slow down if
you're in a construction zone that the GPS knows about or help to control your
speed more effectively on Hills since the system will know what the terrain
ahead looks like improving not only safety but gas mileage as well and of
course when we do start buying autonomous cars on mass adaptive cruise
control like systems will be very important for actually keeping the car
where you want it on the road so you don't end up in the back of a semi-truck
like those cops in The Blues Brothers for now though it's not surprising that
adaptive cruise control like many optional features they try to sell you
down at the old car NE ship don't come
cheap as it's usually an add-on that will set you back a couple thousand but
it might just be worth it for you if you're an inattentive driver with some
money to burn or maybe you'll even get one of those super slick salesmen who
will sweeten the deal with some of the those free floor mats and uh
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