adaptive cruise control

noun

: a system in an automobile that can automatically adjust the settings of the cruise control in response to external driving conditions

Jaguar's adaptive cruise control … tracks the speed and position of the car in the lane ahead and automatically adjusts the speed to keep a safe time interval.

—Bruce McCall

Examples of adaptive cruise control in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Ever-evolving technologies like adaptive cruise control and lane-keeping assist are a big part of how companies tempt us into buying new vehicles. —Camila Domonoske, NPR, 24 Nov. 2025

The more advanced version of cruise control is adaptive cruise control. —Keenan Thompson, Freep.com, 11 Nov. 2025

What is adaptive cruise control? —Keenan Thompson, USA Today, 10 Nov. 2025

And Japanese-market versions (known as the Toyota Celsior, as Lexus didn’t have showrooms in its homeland until 2005) even offered an adaptive cruise control system that used lasers to sense the distance to the vehicle ahead. —Will Sabel Courtney, Robb Report, 30 Oct. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1988, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for adaptive cruise control

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