Uncategorized admin on 30 Jan 2001 08:00 am
Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz?
Invention Week, Day #3: Adaptive Cruise Control.
I’ve wanted"adaptive cruise control"for years — something that speeds up and slows down automatically based on the distance and rate of closure to the car in front of me. All I’ve ever seen is a handful of self-driving car demos on TV years ago… nothing that I could actually buy, just some stuff that was going to be ready"in the future."
The future is now!
It seems that North America is not big on the whole ACC concept, unless you’re talking about the Eaton Vorad EVT-300 Collision Warning System with SmartCruise — which you can get for your Mack truck for $2,000 - $3,000. Look, here’s a list of here).