Adaptive cruise control, a feature designed to reduce driver fatigue on highways, may be contributing to a different kind of ...

Today’s cars don’t look all that different from the cars of 10, 20, or even 30 years ago, but once you delve past the drivetrain, the seating configuration, or the body style, you’ll find today’s cars ...

The study merges two strands of research on the vulnerabilities of modern cars with advanced driving assistance systems. This is the question asked by Aminul Hoque, a doctoral student of Associate ...

Driving around on summer weekends or heading out on vacation, travelers often find themselves caught in a "phantom" traffic jam that defies explanation. Well, just in time for road trip season, a ...

With semi-autonomous active safety systems becoming commonplace, more and more vehicles are beginning to offer adaptive cruise control as either optional or standard equipment. You have probably seen ...

Adaptive cruise control (ACC) is an intelligent form of cruise control that slows down and speeds up automatically to keep pace with the car in front of you. The driver sets the maximum speed -- just ...

Like conventional cruise control, adaptive cruise control maintains a desired speed set by the driver. However, adaptive cruise control (often abbreviated as ACC) makes things more convenient by ...

What Is Adaptive Cruise Control? Adaptive cruise control (ACC) is a system designed to help vehicles maintain a safe following distance and stay within the speed limit. This system adjusts a car's ...

It’s not a stretch to call cruise control one of the earliest driving aids. It wasn’t always electronic, and it certainly didn’t make your grandfather’s 1982 Cadillac Seville autonomous, but it was a ...