On a long, empty highway, there comes a moment when your right foot begins to feel the strain of holding a steady speed. That is exactly the situation modern cars were designed to make easier and ...

Adaptive cruise control makes traveling on the highway a breeze, but drivers are apparently using it as a “tool for speeding.” That’s according to a new study from the Insurance Institute for Highway ...

Early cruise control systems were usually vacuum-controlled setups designed to allow drivers to set a vehicle speed and hold it indefinitely. The systems worked well on flat unvarying terrain and gave ...

The 1994 Speed saw Keanu Reeves star alongside Sandra Bullock in the action-thriller about a bomb on a bus, with Speed 2 arriving three years later (sans Reeves) and focused on a boat with a similar ...

Ford this summer rolls out Intelligent Speed Limiter technology that reads traffic speed limit signs, and adjusts your car's cruise control accordingly. It lets you cruise 5 mph over the limit, but -- ...

The 2026 Volkswagen Tiguan SEL R-Line Turbo's 2.0-liter EA888 turbo four-cylinder engine makes 268 horsepower and 258 pound-feet of torque, which is 67 hp more than the standard engine. That's plenty ...

Ralph R. Teetor of Hagertown, Ind., is awarded a U.S. patent on Aug. 22, 1950, for a speed-control device that developed into modern cruise control. Speed governing devices had been in use since the ...