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CACC: Current Practice Overview
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•Typical (non-cooperative) adaptive cruise control objectives:
•Safety: maintaining safe following distances between vehicles
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Solutions utilized:
•In-vehicle radar (or other surveillance)-based adaptive cruise control systems to automatically maintain minimum following distances
Limitations:
•Adaptive cruise control systems can look ahead only one car—cannot respond to the general traffic flow situation
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Source: Ford Motor Company