Cruise Control: Design considerations

A cruise control system provides autonomous (but casually supervised) control of the speed of a motor vehicle moving at highway speeds. For such a system, important design considerations include

• Safety: Can the system fully control the vehicle, and can it ensure that the vehicle will not enter an unsafe state as a consequence of the control?

• Simplicity of use: Can a driver with no prior experience with the system use it correctly?

• Characteristics of real-time response: How rapidly does the vehicle respond to control inputs?

• Other?

Updated Halloween 95 by Mary Shaw
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