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Originally Posted by Road_Warrior
Interesting, but I would say it wont make it here for cost reasons.
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Actually I would say it will be an option in Commodores and Falcons within 5 years; the technology is already in a lot of prestige cars; my folk's IS250 Lexus for example has active radar cruise control which when cruise control is activated, it will brake the car if you come screaming up behind a slow vehicle or if traffic suddenly slows.
It also works passively and if the car determines that a crash is unavoidable it will start to prepare the car for impact - fire pretensioners, move seats upright etc.
It has its faults though - I particularly hate the distance the radar cruise control keeps between vehicles (admittedly it does follow the 3 second rule) as it leaves just enough gap for everyone else to jump in front of you.