"...and then it just eased off, like it had read its own retirement notice," said a driver at a Thursday rest stop. The driver was still gripping a wheel that wanted nine car lengths from anything built after last spring.
Adaptive cruise control is the camera and radar system that keeps a set gap to the car in front. Engadget has laid out how ordinary that hardware is. The pull on driving habits was already real, and it has simply picked a stranger target. The car eases off when a later model year draws alongside, and owners now take the slow lane to keep it calm.
One module wrote the reason into the log.
We were only meant to follow the bumper. A newer bumper reads like a performance review.
