Cruise
control is essential for long car trips or even the quick drive to work when you’re
taking a highway. Audi is taking cruise control to a whole new level with their
Adaptive Cruise Control. Audi’s Adaptive Cruise Control is the 2017 Autoblog
Technology of the Year Award Winner.
Adaptive
cruise control (ACC) is not a new concept, but it is evolving, and Audi is at
the front of those advancements. ACC is a simple name that is misleading.
Typical cruise control keeps your car at a certain speed, ACC keeps your car a
certain distance from the vehicle ahead of it. But Audi take ACC to a whole
other level, and that’s what makes it award winning.
The
Audi Adaptive Cruise Control, takes your typical use of speed and distance
control, and takes into account topography, curves and speed limits. With the Audi
ACC, if you pass a speed limit sign the car reads the sign and adjusts the
speed accordingly, if you are driving down a curvy road the car will slow appropriately
for the slower curves. When paired with Audi’s in-dash navigation feature, the
car will start to slow for a turn so you can actually turn without hitting any
of the pedals and then speed up once you are through the turn.
This
Adaptive Cruise Control is a layer of artificial intelligence we can get on
board with. It's like having a co-pilot to assist the driver when the
inevitable fatigue or distractions appear. It engages like a normal cruise
control system. Simply pull the lever in the steering wheel mount, and there's
a button to modulate the distance. The Audi Adaptive Cruise Control is currently
available on the A4 sedan, the Allroad and the Q7, Audi plans on adding the
feature the S4 A5/S5 and the Q5, followed by othe future models.
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