My wife and I will be buying a car in the next year.

I want adaptive cruise control.

It’s a cool feature and I should be able to have it. How often have you followed someone on a long trip where they set their cruise but you have to keep adjusting yours because you can never get it exactly the same.

This feature resolves that. The person in front sets their cruise and everyone else just uses radar to maintain a set distance from the car in front of them.

The problem is that only rich people can have this. The Wiki page on the topic lists a bunch of cars that have it and I can’t afford any of them.

Stupid rich folk feature!

I’ll bet a year after I buy something, every new car coming to market is going to have this.

Y’all can refer back to this when the 08 models hit the showrooms and laugh at me.

Incidentally… maybe it’s time to buy a wagon. No adaptive cruise control… but I probably won’t miss it in that thing.